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David Shapiro

@daveshap.bsky.social

AI research, psychedelics advocacy, post-labor economics theory, postnihilism, metamodernism

888 Followers  |  1,632 Following  |  24 Posts  |  Joined: 23.11.2024  |  2.2701

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The real "bitter lesson" is that the goalposts keep moving.

The original "bitter lesson" was that "general strategies with high compute tend to outperform expert systems"

Oh but now that's not good enough, the AI needs to play and experiment and *that* is the *real* bitter lesson.

28.09.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all just smoke and mirrors

28.09.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The AI doomers are still around but the vibe has shifted. Rather than the prosaic, holier-than-thou attitude of the previous years, the entire tone has shifted to "poor us, we're the chosen few... but no one gets it... no one is listening... oh well... le sigh"

Such an interesting phenomenon
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27.09.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
27.09.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Magna contentio aeterna est

27.09.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ex nihilo, ad nihilum

27.09.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once, my dog saw shadows on ground of big fat bees flying above him.

He kept trying to catch the shadows.

No matter what we did, we couldn't convince him that the bees over his head were real.

Thus is the nature of the Internet, and all of you reading this.

27.09.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a really short speech... πŸ€ͺ

27.09.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Amphorae can carry wine

27.09.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The bus might just be a state of mind, or a metaphor... For something

26.09.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, who's driving the bus then???

26.09.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll follow you anywhere lol.

26.09.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That unmatched sense of satisfaction when you have the most powerful AI available at your fingertips but you're so content you have no further questions.

25.09.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm considering moving here from x (Twitter) because of rampant anti semitism and the fact that x is becoming an all out race to the bottom.

24.09.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 1

I hear that AI is really unpopular here..

02.06.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

In 2026 an AI will do your taxes for you, and it will find every single exception, exemption, and loophole that applies to you.

01.02.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

If there was a human who could do everything that LLMs can do today, they'd be the most famous person on the planet.

01.02.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feelin’ cute

Might delete l8r

05.12.2024 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.

This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

02.12.2024 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5887    πŸ” 1033    πŸ’¬ 324    πŸ“Œ 142
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From the reinforcementlearning community on Reddit: Blue Sky Researcher Starter Packs for ML/AI/RL Explore this post and more from the reinforcementlearning community

Link here: www.reddit.com/r/reinforcem...

02.12.2024 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Found a great "Starter Pack" list for AI here on bluesky

02.12.2024 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Super helpful thanks

30.11.2024 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who's good to follow in the AI, psychedelic, blockchain space? Other than the inimitable @samradofficial.bsky.social ?

24.11.2024 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I just signed up so I don't know yet

23.11.2024 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hi I'm here now.

23.11.2024 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

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