This doesn't work for Tokyo or Taipei currently :(
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ev7 commented on Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 reuters.com/technology/cy... · Posted by u/robbiet480
Social media that tech workers in the 30s and 40s were exposed to was never any more intense than a bulletin board or a chat room.
Social media now is a very different beast. It's designed to be addictive, and it generates engagement through polarization.
Is banning social media for children a punishment for the child? Some parents would argue the opposite, that it's a good thing that the child isn't developed enough to realise yet.
Banning social media for a single child creates social death; banning it for all promotes social life.
Will be interesting to see how this affects math research. He has pumped unthinkable amounts of money into the field. The only first-class flights I've taken in my life were to get to Simons-funded conferences at super fancy hotels. (I found these conferences a bit ridiculous, but the luxury treatment did ensure that they could get together a lot of the biggest names in the field in one place.)
Besides the conferences, there is the SCGP at Stony Brook, the Simons Center in Manhattan, whatever MSRI is called now, AMS-Simons travel grants, tons of money for the arXiv, the Magma license deal... and that's just the stuff that I've benefited from personally. I know there's more, Simons Collaboration grants and probably other things I've never heard of. He was very good to us all.
We've always joked that Phds in geometry-adjacent fields have to have one of the highest average incomes of any degree, probably at least $1 million a year. Simons making $3 billion, the rest of us making 90k apiece.
And the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley!
The problem with the advice wasn't that it suggested going somewhere with more women, the problem was that it implicitly suggested that the behaviour of the local women made them poor prospects for dating.
I can imagine this would be very alienating for the women in his class.
I’m a current student in his class and the response from women (students and course staff) has been strongly negative for the most part.
ev7 commented on CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley sp23.datastructur.es/... · Posted by u/curious16
I took this so many years ago I can't remember who taught it. Paul Hilfinger maybe? Microvax assembly language was a big part of the course, IIRC.
I took it two semesters ago with Hilfinger and sadly didn’t have any Microvax in it. You might be thinking of 61C, which deals more with computer architecture.
Enjoyed the content of the article, but its credibility is diminished a bit by its numerous typos.
The intersection of the two seems to be quite hard to find.
At the state that we're in the AIs we're building are just really useful input/output devices that respond to a stimuli (e.g., a "prompt"). No stimuli, no output.
This isn't a nuclear weapon. We're not going to accidentally create Skynet. The only thing it's going to go nuclear on is the market for jobs that are going to get automated in an economy that may not be ready for it.
If anything, the "danger" here is that AGI is going to be a printing press. A cotton gin. A horseless carriage -- all at the same time and then some, into a world that may not be ready for it economically.
Progress of technology should not be artitrarily held back to protect automateable jobs though. We need to adapt.