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Simon Last

@simonlast

1 year

I'm super excited to have @thesephist joining us at @NotionHQ – we'll be exploring how AI can truly push us forward as humans, and moving quickly to ship useful products. Come join us!

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@thesephist

1 year

Life update🎉 I'm very excited to be joining @NotionHQ to continue prototyping and researching ways AI can help us be more creative, thoughtful, and productive! Looking forward to learning from the team and bringing some of my ideas from the past year to a tool loved by many 👇

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Join us next Thursday at @NotionHQ NYC for an AI show and tell – featuring demos from The Browser Company, Replit, Nomic, and more!

AI Show and Tell @ Notion NYC · Luma

Join us at Notion HQ in SoHo for an evening of demos and conversations with some of New York’s finest creative technologists! We’ve gathered a small group of…

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6 months

It’s so sad that a generation has been brainwashed to believe humanity has no future. We need to be dream maxxing. Building an insanely glorious future.

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

6 months

Oh god this just messed me up

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It was really fun to reminisce on the past decade+ of building @NotionHQ – including the time my dad flew out to make sure Ivan was a real person…

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Ivan and Simon have been building Notion for 10 years. Today, they’re peeling back the curtain on the early days! Their first meeting. The first version of the product. Our first conversations with users. First Block, season 1 finale. Watch now:

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I believe all 3 of these are true: - AI could benefit us massively - AI could cause short term harm - AI could be an existential risk to humanity It’s disappointing to see people push back on 3 without offering real object level disagreements. This is a really important debate!

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I'm so excited to be showing Q&A to the world – the ability to instantly find any information in Notion has made this a daily essential for me. More to come soon!

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@NotionHQ

8 months

What if… you could talk to your workspace? Meet Q&A, Notion AI’s newest superpower. Join the beta:

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7 months

Building Notion AI brought @ivanhzhao and I back to the early days. Since then, we've built a solid team and I'm super excited for the future!

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Notion 1.0 was built by our founders in Kyoto, coding in their underwear. Notion AI was built in their hotel room at a team offsite. You know the product well. Now here’s the story behind it:

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@lawrjones We had the same setup until 2021!

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@AlfredoAndere Our approach is to ship new features as soon as they are ready, and create a marketing release when we feel we have a cohesive bundle. Principle is to never hold up our product team shipping value to users :)

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1 year

I've noticed that criticisms of controls on AI from open source tech folks share a common sense that freedom is the overriding priority. This works fine most of the time but critically breaks down for dangerous technology.

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@Aella_Girl Idiot is a banned word apparently but:

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1 year

What if we gave the worlds top 1% smartest people a device that transforms their internal train of thought into tokens, then did unsupervised training on all of it?

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5 years

Why don’t Google/Apple/Facebook train people out of high school?

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2 years

@GeoffLewisOrg The community has shifted largely to thinking that the best path to impact for most people is via their career, not “earning to give”

This is your most important decision

When people think of living ethically, they most often think of things like recycling, fair trade, and volunteering. But that's missing something huge: your choice of career. We believe that what you...

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@amasad That’s not good! In my experience EAs are exceptionally kind and very open to criticism about the ideas

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5 years

@eugenewei @NotionHQ 😑 working on it! What’s slow for you?

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@vgr Very long walks

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@EricaJoy We are hiring at @NotionHQ !

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5 years

This is really interesting – has anyone read his book? WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER

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7 months

Jokes aside, this is a perfect example of a kind of reductionist fallacy I see often in AI debates. As an analogy, imagine complaining about a “ban on atoms” because they can be used to make weapons.

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7 months

On the one hand, bed nets. On the other hand, banning math. 🤷‍♂️

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The great stagnation is starting to feel totally over

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3 months

So hyped for this

Denis Villeneuve Says ‘Rendezvous With Rama’ is “Arrival on Steroids” — World of Reel

Of all the projects Villeneuve has percolating next, after ‘Dune 2,’ his adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous With Rama” is the one I’m most excited for.

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@patio11 How about anything that *did* change after existing for that long?

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“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.” — Hyperion Cantos

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@velddev @NotionHQ Check again ;)

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I think we have all the pieces now for someone to build The Primer

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5 years

@sarthakgh It’s hard enough to design things to make sense and be consistent! I think effort is almost always better spent in that direction

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5 years

What products do notification triage well?

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Gets me every time

Drumming: IV. —

Steve Reich, Colin Currie, Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals · Song · 2018

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I’m in some eternal A/B test on Instagram where I’ve literally never seen an ad. Is anyone else?

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@geoffreylitt This is so important!

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@rsnous Me @ivanhzhao and @mandy3284 built one once!

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Can the first manned mars mission be a internet reality show where the members are recruited from around the world?

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Costa Rica

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Every abstraction should have an escape hatch

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As it would be incredibly foolish for this to be the priority for nuclear or biological weapons, so too for powerful AI systems. There are some that think AI isn't dangerous. If that is your position, I disagree but that is at least consistent.

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Golden Gate

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@atroyn I agree the exact technical path from here to there is not clear… so are you rejecting any kind of argument-in-principle about future tech?

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@midjourney v6 😍

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@nickcammarata Seems plausibly good to teach people an easy/simple strategy to calm down?

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Nick Bostrom is the best sci-fi.

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Costa Rica

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Unplug

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@alexandr_wang I feel this regularly!

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I bet you could beat the Turing test in a bigger project with iterative evaluation, data collection, and fine-tuning GPT-4. This one seems to have only tried a prompt.

Melanie Mitchell

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7 months

Current chatbots can pass the Turing Test, right? A lot of people have claimed this, but Cameron Jones ( @camrobjones ) and Benjamin Bergen of UCSD actually tested the claim! (Spoiler: The answer is "no, they don't pass.")

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7 years

Who needs air conditioning when you can just bike across the Golden Gate Bridge

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@eshear It’s strange to imagine being the person pushing for this

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http://t.co/NuZrvoczMz: YES

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@Mtclai @SFDemsForChange @arram @huangyoon @daytimeskye @andyrapista @keerthanpg @branliu @thedanigrant @dfmorse23 @iamrosewang @gptbrooke Congrats!!!

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Embrace of the Serpent

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@ctbeiser I am enjoying this series

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California St. http://t.co/kHFot9Wv6e

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8 years

I don't think we'll be getting another one like him any time soon...

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Fire Light

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@atroyn Oh really! I feel like that’s an uncommon position these days. Would you put a 0% chance on that?

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Paquera

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🌳 🏢 🏠 🚪 📫 📍Mission District, San Francisco 🕖 7:07 PM 👋 @nicocamapp

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10 years

A wonderful Alan Kay talk http://t.co/jVc2CYY8Q7 I love the recreation of Sketchpad at 15:00

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1 year

@atroyn Oh interesting… that’s a pretty fundamental disagreement. Which of these claims do you disagree with? (From )

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1 year

@atroyn People are working on this. Here is one project: . I think most people would agree that effective regulation would need to be grounded in concrete problems and evaluations.

METR

evals.alignment.org

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I don't see how it's defensible to think that AI is dangerous, and also that everyone should have uninhibited access to it...

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@alfred_twu @rsnous There are a lot of tricky constraints with bus route design! The optimum for mobility seems to be a mixture of transport methods, including cars. There’s a chapter in this book about this:

Order without Design

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@elvin_not_11 Just go to any of the 1000 good menswear stores in New York? 😆

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@TrevMcKendrick @zackkanter the diamond age, ficciones (borges), stories of your life and others, the dispossessed

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@Altimor Massive congrats!!

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@kepano I do exactly the same thing!

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Macbook Air!! :)

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Beauty!

A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder

Jóhann Jóhannsson, Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra, Anthony Weeden · Song · 2016

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Science fiction gold mine! @novysan http://t.co/fIGiUFcwTp

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🏢 📍Mission District, San Francisco 🕡 6:53 PM 👋 @nicocamapp

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I'm still trying to figure out where the computer is inside the Air

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1 year

@atroyn It’s not saying they are close now, just “once they are close…” — this sentence seems very sensible to me! I would want labs to have strong procedures of this form.

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Palm Shadow

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Bernal Heights http://t.co/kxgUQSB3LR

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@mathemagic1an I see what you’re trying to do here ;)

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@michael_nielsen @cjc @ben8128 @timoni @NotionHQ Would love to do that at some point but will be difficult because our permission model is quite complex!

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Who’s making Rimworld but with LLM agents?

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Is the internet different, or does “the Cycle” continue?

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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Just watched Most Likely to Succeed I really enjoyed it, but the broad point at the end felt like a cop out. Why couldn't an educational system based on better principles (open-ended projects, "soft" skills, self accountability...) be scalable?

Most Likely to Succeed

The feature-length documentary Most Likely To Succeed examines the history of education in the United States, revealing the growing shortcomings of conventio...

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@michael_nielsen FTL!!

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Honestly where is the PTA calling for the immediate shutdown of Hogwarts? Major plot hole.

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@RichardMCNgo I think people both deceive and criticize themselves about their insecurities in a way that is messy and not at all consistent. A major source of both could be learned behaviors from early models like our parents.

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@amasad @atroyn I can point to a few resources that might be useful here. The default scenario that I think about is a more gradual loss of control but it's important to consider others.

What failure looks like — AI Alignment Forum

The stereotyped image of AI catastrophe is a powerful, malicious AI system that takes its creators by surprise and quickly achieves a decisive advant…

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