I know we all have disaster fatigue, but the reason why historic LA fires get so much coverage is because there are more people in greater LA county than in *most US states*
There has been a definite shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon.
I wrote a bit about why this might be happening and what we can take away from their apparent confidence. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies...
'Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.' Alfred North Whitehead
How to get an intuitive understanding of how to work with LLMs by drawing on a (not-very-technical) understanding of how they work, from my substack: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-l...
