We place life's bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are children of improbability, that everything we treasure exists not because it had to, not because it was likely or necessary, but because the universe took a gamble against the staggering odds otherwise.

Maria Popova

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probabilityriskuncertainty

Any system has only a finite number of security vulnerabilities, so if we have new AI models that are good enough to comb over the code and fix the weak points very quickly, that should privilege the defense over the offense.

Noah Smith

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ai-safetysecuritycybersecurity

if you do not batch together many users, the cost and the economics you get can be a thousand times worse than if you do batch many users together.

Reiner Pope

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economies-of-scaleinfrastructureproduct-design