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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by jb1991 »

soulofmischief wrote: post #110
jb1991 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spoken like someone without common life responsibilities.

Spoken like someone who casts judgement and makes assumptions before considering that different people have different priorities. It's downright silly to claim that I have no life responsibilities because I prioritize setting aside time for self-growth and encourage others to do the same. Open your mind a little bit and ponder why you feel compelled to have such a negative and dismissive attitude about this.

You are getting this reaction from people because of the judgmental tone you took in your original comment:

> If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one.

It’s a pretentious remark, saturated in lofty assumptions about people, and you could learn from these reactions.

Edit: I just noticed your username, “soul of mischief“, and now it makes sense to me. Are you trolling?

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by [deleted] »

jb1991 wrote: post #111
soulofmischief wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spoken like someone who casts judgement and makes assumptions before considering that different people have different priorities. It's downright silly to claim that I have no life responsibilities because I prioritize setting aside time for self-growth and encourage others to do the same. Open your mind a little bit and ponder why you feel compelled to have such a negative and dismissive attitude about this.

You are getting this reaction from people because of the judgmental tone you took in your original comment: > If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one. It’s a pretentious remark, saturated in lofty assumptions about people, and you could learn from these reactions. Edit: I just noticed your username, “soul of mischie…

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Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by soulofmischief »

jb1991 wrote: post #111
soulofmischief wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spoken like someone who casts judgement and makes assumptions before considering that different people have different priorities. It's downright silly to claim that I have no life responsibilities because I prioritize setting aside time for self-growth and encourage others to do the same. Open your mind a little bit and ponder why you feel compelled to have such a negative and dismissive attitude about this.

You are getting this reaction from people because of the judgmental tone you took in your original comment: > If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one. It’s a pretentious remark, saturated in lofty assumptions about people, and you could learn from these reactions. Edit: I just noticed your username, “soul of mischie…

I don't find that pretentious at all. What I'm conveying is that we have the Things We Think We Want and the Things We Actually Want. The former live in our minds, the latter are actually realized through our everyday actions and choices.

> I just noticed your username, “soul of mischief“, and now it makes sense to me. Are you trolling?

It's against the rules of Hacker News to assume bad faith. I certainly am not arguing in bad faith, nor do I intend to make anyone feel bad for the sake of it.

I purposefully wrote an abrasive comment in order to stoke the minds of others and make them think inwardly. There was one time in my life where I also needed to hear those exact words. That no matter what adversity I face, I must make times for the things I really care about.

I must constantly re-evaluate what drives me and check to make sure I'm not letting life pass by without achieving at least some of my goals. I must not make excuses, and I must not make excuses for others. I must not be negative toward those who are in a better station of life.

As for my username, it is derived from a popular hip hop group, Souls of Mischief, who are part of the larger Oakland set, Hieroglyphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJc2NYwHjw

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

jb1991 wrote: post #23
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #21

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Reportedly, Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

you think john carmack has fewer responsibilites than you? while you’ve wasted enough time on here to rack up 15k karma?

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by 3abiton »

notfried wrote: post #5

Apparently, this is the list Ilya gave to John Carmack more than a year ago [1], which was shared by an OpenAI employee 10 days ago [2]. [1] https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe... [2] https://twitter.com/keshavchan/status/1787861946173186062

What's the relevance compared to the latest AI advancement including transformers for example?

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by jb1991 »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #114
jb1991 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, the freedoms of not having any other responsibilities.

you think john carmack has fewer responsibilites than you? while you’ve wasted enough time on here to rack up 15k karma?

Yes. His kid is an adult now and he is reportedly single now too so that makes it a lot easier to do this. The daily life of a family is a large time-consuming responsibility and many can’t lock themselves into a hotel for a week for that simple reason.

Re: Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”

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Post by KolenCh »

I created a Zotero group: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5541371/ilya_sutskever/library... This should be useful if you use Zotero. For pre-prints that have been published, they are replaced by the published version. Except for a few blog posts, and the Stanford course, and a copyrighted book, you should be able to obtained the PDF through Zotero automatically.

Interesting facts: published date ranges from 1993 (the only item from the 90s, by his advisor) to 2020, types varies from 1 course, 1 dissertation, 10 preprints, (1 is a preprint of a chapter of a book, some are presented somewhere), 11 conference papers, 1 book, to 3 blog posts.

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