They've sponsored some really cool sailboats
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Every institutional investor, apparently
I probably fall more into the "weirdo" camp, although whether or not it's interesting is up for debate. I have never been happy with the Intel Management Engine running closed source code so since the early 2010s or so I've either had x86 machines that ran libreboot or had the IME disabled. I have an ARM laptop now that works pretty well. Closed x86 firmware is not going away so I'm more hoping it becomes easier to run open source firmware on ARM, and I have been hoping for a pro-consumer company like framework or system76 to pick that mantle up
Oh very interesting, I had not heard of that. Thanks for the link
I'll think about it when they have an ARM option
I feel like you are describing the Nissan Leaf. Bought one used in like 2017 for $12k and it could only do like 80 miles on a charge but that's more than enough to get to work and back. Cost about $1 of electricity per 100 miles (apologies for freedom units)
A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:
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Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems
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James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists
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Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s
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Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories
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Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS
Just winning a Nobel doesn't automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.
Three things to start:
I'm mortified that I have let so many people down and I think I understand how that happened.
I'm going to change things about how i make stuff.
Complexly's AI policy is public and well-considered and adhered to by the whole team, I think it's worth reading! (Complexly is the non-profit that makes Crash Course and SciShow and a bunch of other shows that I do not write for.)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14E2JfjNoLdQPSlkyZdCN_8scQlxl4CT1PdZ0iE1IEg4/edit?tab=t.0
The thing that everything we do is based on is that you know that what I'm saying are my thoughts coming from my brain in the way I decide. I have made that harder and I'm sorry. I have been relying too heavily on AI as a research aid. It can be very useful for this task, giving me access to a lot of papers I didn't know existed really fast, but I think that has been to the detriment of my work because it has not given me the freedom to find all of my own ways into and around a topic.
But, for clarity, the origin of claims in my videos are not "ChatGPT's said this." I have been using AI to locate papers and other resources for learning about topics. You are still getting my takes based on what I read, know, and learn.
I think what people have said in this thread about me diluting myself is spot on. Ultimately, what I am most scared of is ruining myself for people, but I have not been managing my impulses well. You need to know that my words are mine. I don't think that this hasn't been true, but I've been moving so fast that my own process isn't actually clear to me and I want to have it be a guarantee moving forward.
What I can't guarantee, though, is that we will agree about this technology or what to do with it. I think that's good. We need a lot of kinds of folks critiquing this technology.
I'm not a pure AI-hater, which people in the AI industry know, so when I say that the way these models were trained deeply disturbs me, that lands differently.
When I say that I think that the speed at which these companies are trying to consolidate economic power should freak out everyone in the world, that's coming from someone who has "nuanced takes." When I say I worry about the climate impacts of this rollout, that is not me saying, "I don't think this tech should ever exist" it's me saying, "for god's sake please don't make our biggest problem worse." It is very likely that you (the reader) and I disagree on how or even whether AI should be used. I think it makes sense for that disagreement to exist. But I have also always believed that my audience is more likely to be right than I am. You know what this feels like in a way I can't. And I am so sorry for diluting myself in this way and harming the thing that we have all built together.
As for the "why don't you just make less! No one is making you do this!" I'm not sure that's how I work. I've been feeling the pressure of "Oh, I have this little video idea, I need to get it out real fast so I can get to the more important stuff" and I create when I feel that pressure.
But making more things does not make me make better things. It does not make the big thing that we've been doing for 20 years better. I know that I can manage myself more effectively. I want to make videos like the one I made yesterday on hankschannel where the writing was the whole thing and I felt it all the way down and have been so enriched by people's responses to it. And sure, I'm probably going to make dumb unscripted straight to camera thoughts videos sometimes. And then I'll play connections.
But mostly I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs...with doing more and more and more and more...is not healthy for me or good for the world. It is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this. I was talking about this with Katherine last night and she did not pull any punches. Frankly, neither did John. Neither of them think I've been being healthy. I need to readjust.
SO - what changes.
Expect less hankschannel. It may need to pause for a while.
It may be that Hankschannel comes back with writing and research support. It may be that it comes back with just way fewer videos. I am going to spend this time finishing a video I've been working on for ages that I think really really matters. 2. SMUSH and 4x3 are getting paused as well. If there are bugs, there are bugs. I have backlog of 4x3 boards right now and, frankly, writing them is usually a solace to me, but if we run out, I am not going to worry about that...so if it just reverts to a static board one day...that'll be that.
I do deeply want to support good store and complexly in whatever way I can, so there may be some stuff on that front. But the reliance on me has always been risky, so we need to build for that as well.
I'm very sorry for harming the thing this is all based on.