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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Even if NVIDIA's production does not increase, the A100 is the last product released, and no other competitors take its place, the *current rate of compute accumulation* is enough for any of these large companies to do *very weird things* over the course of just a few years.
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon
lesswrong.com
To survive and flourish in such a world, you will need a lot of mental flexibility and great reserves of emotional balance. You will have to repeatedly let go of some of what you know best, and learn to feel at home with the unknown.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
George Steiner summarizes it, relativists tend to believe that language is not the vehicle of thought but its determining medium. It is the framework of cognition. Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework. Hence, the study of the evolution of language is the study of the evolution of the human mind itself.”
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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