When we talk with one another we are simultaneously aware that we are in the world together and that we have to work very hard
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Weird Undisciplined Interdisciplinary Thought of the Day
Suppose you have a transformer that handles tokens of dimension Dmodel.D_{model}. And suppose it has ten tokens in the input. The residual stream that’s updated
Alignment as a Vocation?
I just re-read Max Weber’s essay “Science as a Vocation” in the context of thinking about human and machine intelligence alignment. In particular, I’m thinking
Before and After
Before and after pictures have always fascinated me. An empty lot and a finished house. A bag of Lego bricks and a finished tower. When
Alignment and Sacred Texts
I’m working on a course in which we will examine in parallel solutions to problems of human intelligence alignment (how do we get people to
Institutions in the Presence of (super) Intelligent Agents
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Innoeduvation 