After fiveyears as head of the organization, frustration with Altman had reachedcritical levels over an issue strikingly similar to one that had arisen atLoopt: his seeming prioritization of his own projects and aspirations overthe organization’s—sometimes even at its expense.
Recurring theme shown with:<br /> Loopt<br /> Y Combinator<br /> Elon Musk
Hao, Karen. 2025. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. 1st ed. New York: Penguin Press. https://amzn.to/4o92MBs.
https://californiatypewritermovie.com/<br /> California Typewriter
TAWNY Sam, have you heard of Andrew Hawkins? SAM No. TAWNY You funded his performance piece recently, which involved him destroying all his belongings outside a Starbucks in Haight-Ashbury. SAM I've done that a couple of times. But I didn't know there was funding available. TAWNY Yeah.
Peter V. Tytell, a Typewriter Whisperer, Is Dead at 74 by [[Richard Sandomir]]
Die Vorsitzende der englischen konservativen Kemi Badenoch verzichtet heute in einer Rede auf das Net Zero-Ziel für 2050. Dieses Ziel wurde 2019 unter einer konservativen Regierung gesetzlich festgeschrieben. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/conservative-party-to-ditch-commitment-to-net-zero-in-uk-by-2050
Das britische Climate Change Commitee beschreibt in seinem siebten Carbon Bürger Scenario https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/26/uk-urged-to-act-now-on-net-zero-two-kebabs-worth-of-meat-climate-change-committee
Una particularidad de crear usando código es que los materiales parecen infinitos —aunque, como elaboro en esta disertación, en realidad no lo son—
Me evoca la idea del código como material recalcitrante de Sam Aaron que referencié en mi propia tesis.
Das Heartland Institute betreibt seit Dezember eine Niederlassung in London, u.a. mit Unterstäützung von Nigel Farage. Das Institut arbeitet eng mit radikalen Rechtsparteien zusammen. Es sieht den aktuellen Rollback in der Klimapolitik auch als eigenen Erfolg. Zu seinen Wegbereitern in Europa gehörten die FPÖ-Politiker Harald Vilimsky und Roman Haider. Ausführlicher Bericht im Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/us-thinktank-climate-science-deniers-working-with-rightwingers-in-eu-parliament-heartland-institute
DeSmog-Bericht: https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/22/usa-climate-denial-group-heartland-institute-using-far-right-to-attack-eu-green-policies/
Sam Harris speaks with Barton Gellman about election integrity and the safeguarding of American democracy. They discuss the war games he's run to test our response to an authoritarian president, using federal troops against American citizens, the difference between laws and norms, state powers to resist the federal government, voter identification and election integrity, political control over election certifications, the Bush-Gore election, the Electoral Count Reform Act, the prospect of public unrest after the November election, January 6th, George Soros, the "good people on both sides" calumny against Trump, what happens to Trump and Trumpism if Harris wins in November, the presidential debate with Harris, the authoritarian potential of a second Trump term, Project 2025, and other topics.
Stress Testing Our Democracy: A Conversation with Barton Gellman<br /> Episode 384 of Sam Harris podcast<br /> https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/384-stress-testing-our-democracy
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To understand how SAIDs work
Little confused... this is telling me about how "SAIDs" work... I thought I already learned that... the #1 below seems very CESR related... are SAIDs and CESR tightly coupled? or are they independent concepts? Making an ID with an eye toward how it will be serialized seems... unnecessarily coupled.
https://x.com/david_perell/status/1838425252772077636 via David Perell's podcast.
Sam Altman's note taking process. Pocket notebook, spiral bound so he can tear out pages. No real mention of what he does with them after though a suggestion of typing them out somewhere.
Its philosophy is also to fail fast while early-testing alternative solutions
Not sure I like the way this is expressed - it doesn't signify appropriate care for students
Great song in Supernatural...
Fun trivia: The actor's reactions are genuine as Sam and Dean (well, the actors) had not heard the song beforehand.
Although not in this scene; earlier in the episode.
Der Bezos Earth Fund wird bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts 10 Milliarden Dollar für den Kampf gegen die Klima und die Biodiversitätskrise zur Verfügung stellen. Die Mittel des Fonds geben ihm enormen Einfluss. Viele in der NGOs Szene sehen die Politik des Fonds als Gefährdung für die Unabhängigkeit der von ihm geförderten Organisationen. Der Guardian berichtet anlässlich einer Preisverleihung kritisch vor allem über das Engagement des Fonds für CO2 Kompensationen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/jeff-bezos-earth-fund-carbon-offsets-climate-sector-uneasy-aoe
08:18 Technology like AI enables one person businesses (see Sam Altman statement on 1 billion one person company)
Die Firma Blue Carbon, die im Besitz eines Mitglieds des Herrscherhauses von Dubai ist, will in mehreren afrikanischen Ländern CO<sub>2</sub>-Zertifikate zum (behaupteten) Ausgleich der Emissionen von Öl und Gas kaufen. Damit erwirbt die Firma – ohne Information der Bewohner:innen – die Kontrolle über große Waldgebiete. NGOs kampagnisieren intensiv gegen diese Deals. https://taz.de/Umstrittener-Klimaschutzdeal-in-Liberia/!5975181/
I do expect new social platforms to emerge that focus on privacy and ‘fake-free’ information, or at least they will claim to be so. Proving that to a jaded public will be a challenge. Resisting the temptation to exploit all that data will be extremely hard. And how to pay for it all? If it is subscriber-paid, then only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
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‘‘I think it lets us be more thoughtful and more deliberate about safety issues,’’ Altman says. ‘‘Part of our strategy is: Gradual change in the world is better than sudden change.’’
What are the long term effects of fast breaking changes and gradual changes for evolved entities?
The supercomputer complex in Iowa is running a program created by OpenAI, an organization established in late 2015 by a handful of Silicon Valley luminaries, including Elon Musk; Greg Brockman, who until recently had been chief technology officer of the e-payment juggernaut Stripe; and Sam Altman, at the time the president of the start-up incubator Y Combinator.
Sam Charter’s LP anthology on Folkways, The Country Blues. This opened up a rabbit hole that still has no end. The LP was meant as a supplement to Charter’s book of the same name, although I didn’t read the book until much later. I first heard the album cold, with no historical context or biographical information. The music was stunning. ‘Careless Love’ by Lonnie Johnson I played over and over again. To this day I love Lonnie Johnson. There was ‘Fixin’ To Die’ by Bukka White and ‘Statesboro Blues’ by Blind Willie McTell. Masterpieces! These performances knocked my socks off. And Gus Cannon’s ‘Walk Right In’—I remembered that as a radio hit by the Rooftop Singers, only this was a thousand times better. The Country Blues anthology gave me an appetite to hear more of this stuff, and to find out more about these musicians.
One of the most well-known of Aberdeenshire songs, I got this from the singing of Sam Kelly, who recorded 'The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie' on his album titled “Pretty Peggy”.
In addition to tracing the roots of the song Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, Iona Fyfe credits her direct source Sam Kelly.
count up all the potential customers that would be a good fit for your business and multiply that number by the average annual revenue of these types of customer in your market
number of customers that you are able and willing to target
SAM is an extensible markup language with syntax similar to Markdown but semantic capability similar to XML.
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SAM on Snow Atlas
To achieve a position in the top tier of wealth, power and privilege, in short, it helps enormously to start there. “American meritocracy,” the Yale law professor Daniel Markovits argues, has “become precisely what it was invented to combat: a mechanism for the dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations.”
Really good interview with Markovits and Sam Harris on the topic on meritocracy.
I'm saying there are no disorders, there are just quantitative dimensions.
the most important thing we've learned from the dna revolution in the last 10 years is that genetic influences on complex traits are due to thousands of tiny dna differences
these polygenic scores are perfectly normally distributed
Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jaffe) played the role of High Lama in the movie Lost Horizon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1937_film) which was set in the Himalayan mountains.
They will be more advanced than we are, in science and in useful arts, and will know best what will suit the circumstances of their day.
The report as a whole is very exhaustive in laying out the details of the university, but the authors are well aware of the limits of their expertise. They are smart enough to realize that the faculty they hire are much more knowledgeable about their fields and the divisions between their departments, and will thus be far better equipped to address them and create the most efficient structure for the university.
But the Commissioners are happy in considering the statute under which they are assembled as proof that the legislature is far from the abandonment of objects so interesting: they are sensible that the advantages of well directed education, moral, political & economical are truly above all estimate
This particular passage reminds us of the fact that the founding of this university was by no means certain even with the endorsement of Jefferson. This sentence and the paragraph as a whole are essentially appeals to the legislature concerning the value of education and the potential value of the university. This sentence is a disguised compliment towards the congressmen who will hopefully approve funding for the university the founders envision, emphasizing its value and assuring the readers that they are of course already demonstrably committed to the values of education. It's easy to imagine now that Jefferson waved his hand and the University came into being, but in reality it is a state school not only because Jefferson envisioned education serving the state but also because it never could have existed without funding from the legislature.
A language already fraught with all the eminent sciences of our parent Country the future Vehicle of whatever we may Ourselves atchieve and destined to Occupy so much space on the Globe, claims distinguished attention in American Education.
I think this sentence in particular demonstrates the ambition and hopefulness of the University founders. Anglo-Saxon language is to be emphasized because it forms the foundation of the language with which the future achievements of the University will be recorded for posterity. This sentence demonstrates the international reach the founders intended for both the university and the nation as a whole to have. At this time the United States was hardly a global power; European nations dominated every aspect of the world's power distribution, from education to commerce to the sciences. The sentiments set forth in this sentence and the report as a whole would have seemed impossibly ambitious at the time but are vindicated in the present. The founders new that the key to American success on the world stage was the success of American education. I think we owe a great deal of our current wealth and power to the foresight of these educational pioneers.
Fluxions
I had never read or heard the term "Fluxions," but it turns out it is the original term Newton used to describe what we now call "derivatives." His book Method of Fluxions published in 1736 is the foundation of Newtonian Calculus. According to Wikipedia, Liebniz's method of calculus, which was published earlier but possibly thought of later than Newton's, is more widespread which makes the use of the term "fluxions" interesting in this report. On the one hand, It wouldn't surprise me that the Anglo-American founders of the University would favor the Englishman's term of that of the Dutch, but I still am surprised this specific term was used in lieu of the more common "calculus."
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Two performances did seem to transcend the present, with artists sharing music that felt like open-source software to paths unknown. The first, Sam Aaron, played an early techno set to a small crowd, performing by coding live. His computer display, splayed naked on a giant screen, showcasedSonic Pi, the free software he invented. Before he let loose by revising lines of brackets, colons and commas, he typed:#This is Sonic Pi…..#I use it to teach people how to code#everything i do tonight, i can teach a 10 year old child…..His set – which sounded like Electric Café-era Kraftwerk, a little bit of Aphex Twin skitter and some Eighties electro – was constructed through typing and deleting lines of code. The shadowy DJ sets, knob-tweaking noise and fogbank ambient of many Moogfest performers was completely demystified and turned into simple numbers and letters that you could see in action. Dubbed "the live coding synth for everyone," it truly seemed less like a performance and more like an invitation to code your own adventure.