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In case anyone misses the links, this is twinned with two other superb posts - one about general lessons the author learned over the course of the project https://clemenswinter.com…

This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?' Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray! ht…

I'm a huge fan of using simulations to ground qualitative arguments. While the sims usually need to be fine-tuned so extensively as to leave them open to claims of 'overfitting', t…

The author also has a series of tweets giving a high-level summary: https://twitter.com/hippke/status/1302875049255473153

> well spoken insane people as with strong independent thinkers. Happily, I think these to correlate strongly. At least for my admittedly subjective definition of 'well-spoken'.

Here's a fantastically detailed 2019 review of replications of Bloom's work: https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/ As is oft the case, the conclusion is 'it's complicated'.

Gary Marcus - the author of this - has previously offered several concrete tests that he felt demonstrated the limitations of the GPT approach. GPT-3 smashed them. https://www.gwer…

Worth contrasting with other 'Ethos licenses'. There's a really good writeup of 'common' ones here: https://coss.media/advent-of-ethos-licensing/ The most famous is the JSON Good-N…