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Great question! What do you think?
âHowever, itâs also worth pointing out that itâs very unlikely that there will ever be a point where machines are comparable to human beings in the following sense. As soon as machines can read, then a machine can basically read all the books ever written; and no human can read even a tiny fraction of all the books that have ever been written. Therefore, once an AGI gets past kindergarten reading level, it will shoot beyond anything that any human being has ever done, and it will have a much bigger knowledge base than any human ever has. And so, in that sense and many other senses, whatâs likely to happen is that machines will far exceed human capabilities along various important dimensions.â ~STUART J. RUSSELL #ArchitectsofIntelligence
#[1]â â I love that this quote implies reading or the knowledge one acquires from books is a step toward Super Intelligence (Hello Bostrom)
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Please tell me how Anthropicâs Claude works and what its used for
Anthropicâs Claude â #[0]â can you tell me about this.
âFrom the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selinâs quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now itâs sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selinâs elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivanâs weird ex-girlfriend now trying to get in touch with Selin? On the plus side, it feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy abandoned women in them? How does one live a life as interesting as a novelâa life worthy of becoming a novelâwithout becoming a crazy abandoned woman oneself?
Guided by her literature syllabus and by her more worldly and confident peers, Selin reaches certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, and resolves to execute them in practiceâno matter what the cost. Next on the list: international travel.
Unfolding with the propulsive logic and intensity of youth, Either/Or is a landmark novel by one of our most brilliant writers. Hilarious, revelatory, and unforgettable, its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last page.
ELIF BATUMAN
Batumanâs first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Womenâs Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.â
Here is a piece she wrote for the New Yorker: Rereading Russian Classics in the Shadow of the Ukraine War https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/rereading-russian-classics-in-the-shadow-of-the-ukraine-war