Floodlights and Goalposts

An online commonplace book

You too could do this!

I would like people to go away having not just been entertained or gotten some useful information, but be better people, in however slight a sense. To have an aspiration that web pages could be better, that the Internet could be better: “You too could go out and read stuff! You too could have your thoughts and compile your thoughts into essays, too! You could do all this!”

– Gwern Branwen

Gwern and the role he wants to fill. As heard on The Dwarkesh Podcast.

The AI avatar is creepy. For me, audio listen only. Brilliant interview – insightful and inspiring.

Too many adjectives on this post?

Patel, Dwarkesh. “Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory.” Dwarkesh Podcast (blog), November 13, 2024. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/gwern-branwen.


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