"Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […] it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do."
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
Via #AstralCodexTen
A bold short-term prediction about AI progress by "superforecasters" (who don't seem to use coding agents a lot): "We think that 2025 and 2026 will see gradually improving AI agents. In 2027, coding agents will finally be good enough to substantially boost AI R&D itself, causing an intelligence explosion that plows through the human level sometime in mid-2027 and reaches superintelligence by early 2028."
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-ai-2027
Scott Alexander: Interview Day At Thiel Capital
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/interview-day-at-thiel-capital
#SlateStarCodex
#AstralCodexTen #PeterThiel #Tech #TaxTheRich #Libertarianism
The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:
“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”
Good news everyone! My favorite blog is now crossposted to the fediverse (unofficially) #AstralCodexTen
@puffer https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/universe-hopping-through-substack made me aware of a defunct service that linked to a randomly selected tweet, advertised as “a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you.”
People could use a reminder of that, about the internet and world in general, a lot more often.
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