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Ethan Mollick: “The general state of AI in early 2024: Whatever you are best at, you are very likely better than the best LLM at that same skill. This is why, at least for now, AI use can feel liberating - it does the tasks you want to do least so you can concentrate on the ones you both like best and are best at.”
Robert Sapolsky: “If you're a baboon, the Serengeti is the greatest place to live in. You live in these big troops, so the lions don't mess with you very often. There's a lower infant mortality rate among the baboons than among the neighbouring Maasai. And most importantly, this is a fabulous ecosystem where you only have to spend about three hours a day foraging to get your calories. And what that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to making some other baboon miserable. All they do is sit around and generate social stress for each other. Overwhelmingly, if you're a baboon in the Serengeti and you're miserable, it's because another baboon has worked really hard to bring that state about. They're perfect models for Westernized stress because they have the luxury of just generating nonsensical psychosocial stress for each other around the clock.”
“An analysis of 429 mammalian species reveals that just 45 percent feature males that are larger than females. Nearly an equal number of species, 39 percent, have sexes that are about the same size. And in 16 percent of species, females are larger than males.”
