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Friends!
It looks like Covid got me (my girlfriend is just getting over her own Covid-y week, and we live together—so despite our best efforts this was maybe unavoidable).
In accordance with my policy of aggressively resting when I get sick, I’ll be taking the week off to sleep, feel generally sore and uncomfortable, and consume alarming quantities of ibuprofen.
Sorry about the gap in programming, but unless something unexpected and worrying happens I’ll be back to my usual publishing schedule beginning next week, on the 10th.
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This week we talk about neural networks, AGI, and scaling laws.
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Recommended Book: Through the Grapevine by Taylor N. Carlson
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Recommended Book: Autocracy, Inc by Anne Applebaum
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