Podcast appearances and mentions of David Chapman

Événements 100 ans et année internationale des sciences et technologies quantique à l'UNESCO à Parishttps://quantum2025.org/Quantum Days Torontohttps://2025.quantumdays.ca/Quantum innovation summit Dubaï https://quantuminnovationsummit.com/À venir Inauguration du laboratoire CESQ à Strasbourg la première semaine de mars MIT à Boston le 4 avril 2025 pour le lancement du Quantum Index dans ce qu'ils appellent le Business of Quantum Summithttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/business-of-quantum-summit-tickets-1228582075059?aff=oddtdtcreator. La seconde édition de la conférence scientifique « International Conference on Quantum Computing » (ICOQC2025) se tient à l'Institut Poincaré à Paris du 12 au 16 mai. Le Forum Teratec aura lieu à Vincennes le 21 mai. La conférence Quantum Matter a lieu à Grenoble la même semaine avec des top guns scientifiques des qubits supraconducteurs et silicium.France Quantum le 10 juin à Station F, Paris https://www.francequantum.fr/Actu FranceQuandela début février 2025,annonçait une avancée sur leur architecture de calcul pour le calcul à tolérance aux fautes en lien avec un papier arXiv publié en décembre 2024.  Quandela announces a 100,000-fold reduction in the number of components needed for fault-tolerant calculations, a major breakthrough for photonic quantum computing by Quandela, February 2025. Minimizing resource overhead in fusion-based quantum computation using hybrid spin-photon devices by Stephen C. Wein, Timothée Goubault de Brugière, Luka Music, Pascale Senellart, Boris Bourdoncle, and Shane Mansfield, arXiv, December 2024 (22 pages). The impact of hole g-factor anisotropy on spin-photon entanglement generation with InGaAs quantum dots by P. R. Ramesh, Aristide Lemaître, Pascale Senellart, Loic Lanco, Nadia Belabas, Olivier Krebs et al, Quandela, C2N, arXiv, February 2025 (13 pages). Quobly inaugurait ses nouveaux locaux à Grenoble dans le nouveau bâtiment BHT3, CEA and Quobly Report Simultaneous, Microsecond Qubit-Readout Solution With 10x Power-Use Reduction by Quobly, February 2025. Livre blanc sur les atomes froids de Quantonation livre blanc sur le calcul quantique à base d'atomes froids. International Microsoft Majorana-1 Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays by David Aasen, Andrew Zimmerman et al. Microsoft, arXiv, February 2025 (23 pages). Interferometric single-shot parity measurement in InAs–Al hybrid devices by Microsoft Azure Quantum, Justin Zilke et al, Nature, February 2025 (6 pages) et les Supplementary Informations du papier (29 pages). Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world's first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog by Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog, February 2025. Nayak est le patron du hardware quantique de Microsoft. PsiQuantum Omega arXiv d'avril 2024 qui est publié dans Nature, avec plus d'infosPsiQuantum Announces Omega, a Manufacturable Chipset for Photonic Quantum Computing — PsiQuantum by PsiQuantum, February 2025.A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing by PsiQuantum Team, Nature, February 2025 (15 pages).Supplemental materials (24 pages).A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing by Koen Alexander, Xinran Zhou et al, arXiv, April 2024 (8 pages). Amazon Ocelot un arXiv de septembre 2024 que nous avions déjà commentée ! Cela devient fatigant. Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits by Harald Putterman, Oskar Painter et al, Nature, February 2025 (9 pages), Supplementary Informations (51 pages) et Peer Review File (17 pages). Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits by Harald Putterman, John Preskill, Fernando G.S.L. Brandão, Matthew H. Matheny, Oskar Painter et al, arXiv, September 2024 (60 pages). IonQ et IDQ Investissement majoritaire dans IDQ et partenariat avec SK Telecom.https://ionq.com/news/ionq-to-acquire-id-quantique-enter-into-strategic-partnership-with-sk Et changement de CEO. David Chapman remplacé par un Niccolo de Masi.https://x.com/JKeynesIonQ/status/1894861788782727496 Et il pipeaute autant que le précédent, David Chapman.https://x.com/1_regular_dude/status/1895215084596850760 Beaucoup de bronca des investisseurs visible sur X. Qui se sentent leurrés par les surpromesses de l'ancien CEO. Le nouveau n'a pas l'air bien différent de ce point de vue-là. Podcast enregistré en 2024 avec Grégoire Ribordy d'IDQ :https://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2024/decode-quantum-avec-gregoire-ribordy-didq/ Lancement de Zuriq, Jonathan Home et des collègues d'ETH Zurich lancent une nouvelle startup pour créer un ordinateur quantique à base d'ions contrôlés dans des pièges de Penning, par micro-ondes et champs électriques. Ils ont levé $4.2M de fonds d'amorçage. How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits by Masoud Mohseni, John M. Martinis et al, arXiv, November 20...

Current text generators, such as ChatGPT, are highly unreliable, difficult to use effectively, unable to do many things we might want them to, and extremely expensive to develop and run. These defects are inherent in their underlying technology. Quite different methods could plausibly remedy all these defects. Would that be good, or bad? https://betterwithout.ai/better-text-generators John McCarthy's paper “Programs with common sense”: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59/mcc59.html Harry Frankfurt, "On Bullshit": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EQ4OJW/?tag=meaningness-20 Petroni et al., “Language Models as Knowledge Bases?": https://aclanthology.org/D19-1250/ Gwern Branwen, “The Scaling Hypothesis”: gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis Rich Sutton's “Bitter Lesson”: www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html Guu et al.'s “Retrieval augmented language model pre-training” (REALM): http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/guu20a/guu20a.pdf Borgeaud et al.'s “Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens” (RETRO): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04426.pdf Izacard et al., “Few-shot Learning with Retrieval Augmented Language Models”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03299.pdf Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender, “Situating Search”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816 David Chapman's original version of the proposal he puts forth in this episode: twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1576195630891819008 Lan et al. “Copy Is All You Need”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06962 Mitchell A. Gordon's “RETRO Is Blazingly Fast”: https://mitchgordon.me/ml/2022/07/01/retro-is-blazing.html Min et al.'s “Silo Language Models”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.04430.pdf W. Daniel Hillis, The Connection Machine, 1986: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262081571/?tag=meaningness-20 Ouyang et al., “Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155 Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li, “TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf Li et al., “Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463 Henderson et al., “Foundation Models and Fair Use”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15715 Authors Guild v. Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild%2C_Inc._v._Google%2C_Inc. Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers, “Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project”: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210702 You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Analysis of image classifiers demonstrates that it is possible to understand backprop networks at the task-relevant run-time algorithmic level. In these systems, at least, networks gain their power from deploying massive parallelism to check for the presence of a vast number of simple, shallow patterns. https://betterwithout.ai/images-surface-features This episode has a lot of links: David Chapman's earliest public mention, in February 2016, of image classifiers probably using color and texture in ways that "cheat": twitter.com/Meaningness/status/698688687341572096 Jordana Cepelewicz's “Where we see shapes, AI sees textures,” Quanta Magazine, July 1, 2019: https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-we-see-shapes-ai-sees-textures-20190701/ “Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears”, May 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20150622084852/http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html “Understanding How Image Quality Affects Deep Neural Networks” April 2016: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04004   Goodfellow et al., “Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples,” December 2014: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572 “Universal adversarial perturbations,” October 2016: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.08401v1.pdf “Exploring the Landscape of Spatial Robustness,” December 2017: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02779 “Overinterpretation reveals image classification model pathologies,” NeurIPS 2021: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/8217bb4e7fa0541e0f5e04fea764ab91-Paper.pdf “Approximating CNNs with Bag-of-Local-Features Models Works Surprisingly Well on ImageNet,” ICLR 2019: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkfMWhAqYQ Baker et al.'s “Deep convolutional networks do not classify based on global object shape,” PLOS Computational Biology, 2018: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006613 François Chollet's Twitter threads about AI producing images of horses with extra legs: twitter.com/fchollet/status/1573836241875120128 and twitter.com/fchollet/status/1573843774803161090 “Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits,” 2020: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/ Geirhos et al., “ImageNet-Trained CNNs Are Biased Towards Texture; Increasing Shape Bias Improves Accuracy and Robustness,” ICLR 2019: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bygh9j09KX Dehghani et al., “Scaling Vision Transformers to 22 Billion Parameters,” 2023: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05442 Hasson et al., “Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks,” February 2020: https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/scaling/2020-hasson.pdf

Host Michael Taft talks with Vajrayana teacher and author Charlie Awbery about the meaning of their practice name Rin'dzin Pamo, Tantra, curiosity, new developments in the Evolving Ground community, the role of play and spontaneity in Vajrayana, a special invocation written by them and David Chapman, when the teacher/student relationship breaks down, transformation, and how to liberate the shadow.Rin'dzin Pamo, also known as Charlie Awbery, author of Opening Awareness; a Guide to Finding Vividness in Spacious Clarity, is a meditation and leadership coach. They are also the co-founder of Evolving Ground a community of contemporary Vajrayana practice. Rin'dzin practiced and studied Vajrayana for thirty years alongside working in international development and human rights. They write at vajrayananow.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

David Chapman, Siete preguntas vitales para transformar una crisis en crecimiento.

David Chapman is an author and political commentator, and is now hosting his own YouTube stream. He made a return appearance on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about Donald Trump's landslide victory in the 2024 election, which surprised many people except David, who predicted this as early as the end of his last term. David and Tony Mazur chatted about Trump's appeal, the political realignment, who the Democrats will blame for this loss, and if the Neocons are waiting for the MAGA movement to die off.   Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, as well as bonus podcasts per week. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur. Tony is also on Rumble! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.   Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

On this episode of the Bodybuilding Legends Podcast, host John Hansen reads four articles from Muscle & Fitness magazine circa 1987. Included in the articles read on this episode are "The First Great Strongman" about the life of Eugene Sandow written by David Chapman, "Eyewitness to History" about the 1987 Night of the Champions contest report written by Ben Pesta, "The Psychology of a Competitor" written by Mike Mentzer and "Haney by a Mile" about the 1987 Mr. Olympia contest report written by Jeff Everson.  Time Stamps: 4:00 - Emails to the Podcast 9:00 - Happy Birthday Lee Haney 10:30 - John reads the article "The First Great Strongman" written by David Chapman from the September, 1987 issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine.  27:20 - John reads the article about the 1987 Night of the Champions contest called "Eyewitness to History" written by Ben Pesta from the October, 1987 issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine. 42:40 - John reads the article "The Psychology of a Competitor" written by Mike Mentzer from the November, 1987 issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine.  55:20 - John reads the article about the 1987 Mr. Olympia report called "Haney by a Mile" written by Jeff Everson for the February, 1988 issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine.  Links: Become a Patreon Member John's Online Workout and Nutrition Programs Bodybuilding Legends Website Bodybuilding Legends Instagram Bodybuilding Legends Facebook  

David Chapman, Serie: 9 Marcas de una Iglesia Sana

TANKER SHIPPING Moderator: Mr. James Cirenza, Managing Director – DNB Markets Panelists: • Mr. Bart Kelleher, CFO – Ardmore Shipping Corp. (NYSE: ASC) • Mr. Carlos Balestra di Mottola, CEO – d’Amico International Shipping S.A. (IM:DIS) • Mr. Ted Petrone, Vice Chairman – Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NYSE: NMM) • Mr. David Chapman, Commercial Director – Tsakos Shipping (London) Ltd. 16th Annual Capital Link Shipping & Marine Services Forum Lead Sponsor ABS. Tuesday, September 10, 2024 BMA House, London For more information, please visit the following link: https://forums.capitallink.com/shipping/2024london/

TANKER SHIPPING Moderator: Mr. James Cirenza, Managing Director – DNB Markets Panelists: • Mr. Bart Kelleher, CFO – Ardmore Shipping Corp. (NYSE: ASC) • Mr. Carlos Balestra di Mottola, CEO – d’Amico International Shipping S.A. (IM:DIS) • Mr. Ted Petrone, Vice Chairman – Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NYSE: NMM) • Mr. David Chapman, Commercial Director – Tsakos Shipping (London) Ltd. 16th Annual Capital Link Shipping & Marine Services Forum Lead Sponsor ABS. Tuesday, September 10, 2024 BMA House, London For more information, please visit the following link: https://forums.capitallink.com/shipping/2024london/

Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead - We've seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of the risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies.   https://betterwithout.ai/science-engineering-vs-AI   Run-Time Task-Relevant Algorithmic Understanding - The type of scientific and engineering understanding most relevant to AI safety is run-time, task-relevant, and algorithmic. That can lead to more reliable, safer systems. Unfortunately, gaining such understanding has been neglected in AI research, so currently we have little.   https://betterwithout.ai/AI-algorithmic-level   For more information, see David Chapman's 2017 essay "How should we evaluate progress in AI?" https://betterwithout.ai/artificial-intelligence-progress   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Class of 1964 and friends celebrate at the Karnes City Badger Comeback in July: Coach Loyd Taylor, Homer Bludau, Clifton Jefferson, David Chapman, Jerry Kyrish, Fred Yanta, Vincent Demmer, Ben Janacek, Robert Piegza, Carolyn Taylor, Gerry Foegelle Richardson, Linda Gilley Hartsfield, Jeanette Dziuk Gregg, Julie Guttierez Houston, Jill Ehlinger Ball, Gloria Eckermann Brysch, Elaine Moczygemba, “Bunny” Kowalik Hollas, Kay Boyles Caillier, Rose Ann Krueger Sczech, and Sandra Barnhill Clark.Article Link

A Future We Would Like - The most important questions are not about technology but about us. What sorts of future would we like? What role could AI play in getting us there, and also in that world? What is your own role in helping that happen? https://betterwithout.ai/a-future-we-would-like How AI Destroyed The Future -We are doing a terrible job of thinking about the most important question because unimaginably powerful evil artificial intelligences are controlling our brains. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-destroyed-the-future A One-Bit Future - Superintelligence scenarios reduce the future to infinitely good or infinitely bad. Both are possible, but we cannot reason about or act toward them. Messy complicated good-and-bad futures are probably more likely, and in any case are more feasible to influence. https://betterwithout.ai/one-bit-future This episode mentions David Chapman's essay "Vaster Than Ideology" for getting AI out of your head. Text link: https://meaningness.com/vaster-than-ideology Episode link: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/vaster-than-ideology You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

David was a big believer in the early days of Photo Finish Live. He understood how big the game be, liked the experience and pedigree of the game founders and dove in with both feet. That said he wasn't to express concerns and ask the hard questions. The best part of the story? He is even more convicted than before and believes in the team more than ever. This maybe one of the original episodes but is filled with great insights from one of the brightest minds in the game. If you are new and want to get started in Photo Finish Live use the link below: https://signup.photofinish.live/?referralCode=JGweb3 or use referral code JGWeb3 when signing up To connect with John and listen to his interviews live: https://x.com/JGweb3 Connect with David: https://x.com/DChapmanCrypto Join the PFL discord: https://discord.gg/ZGjqSPc2 Be sure to follow Kraphted Media on X for news and updates on all partnered content. https://x.com/KraphtedMedia

Sam Isherwood and Simon Nash hear from David about his career that has taken him from being a chef to a Sommelier to establishing a winery and making great Pinot Noir in Foster in the Gippsland region. @thewineshowaustralia @cornerinletvineyard

En este sermón se resalta la importancia de la iglesia como guardiana de la verdad divina. A través de esta carta a Timoteo, nos enseña cómo los miembros de la iglesia deben comportarse ante las mentiras que el diablo nos podría llegar a tentar.

Craig talks with Stoo Goff about his creative approach. Stoo is the creator behind the RPGs Aegean and The Gaslight Club and is the publisher of WILD by David Chapman. We Evolve website Stoo Goff website Aegean RPG WILD RPG Gaslight Club ************************************ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show for as little as $1 month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Add this to the end of your link on DriveThruRPG to support the show: ?affiliate_id=1044145 For example ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/397612/Court-of-Blades--Scandal-Forged-in-the-Dark?affiliate_id=1044145 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our live-streaming content on ⁠⁠Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't miss our RPG Actual Plays, tutorials, and gaming content on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to an excellent boardgame ⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Go to the Writer's Room for ⁠⁠7th Sea Adventures! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out the great games from ⁠⁠A Couple of Drakes:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Marginal Words KS⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow on BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/support

Listen as Craig talks with David about his process for bringing games like Dr. Who and Conspiracy X 2.0 to life. Laundry 2nd Edition Conspiracy x 2.0 Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition WILD RPG Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game Aegean Adventures Masks of Nyarlathotep Tales from the Loop ************************************ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show for as little as $1 month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Add this to the end of your link on DriveThruRPG to support the show: ?affiliate_id=1044145 For example ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/397612/Court-of-Blades--Scandal-Forged-in-the-Dark?affiliate_id=1044145 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our live-streaming content on ⁠⁠Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't miss our RPG Actual Plays, tutorials, and gaming content on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to an excellent boardgame ⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Go to the Writer's Room for ⁠⁠7th Sea Adventures! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out the great games from ⁠⁠A Couple of Drakes:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Marginal Words KS ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow on BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/support

Forgive the sound quality on this episode; I recorded it live in front of an audience on a platform floating in a lake during the 2024 solar eclipse. This is a standalone essay by David Chapman on metarationaity.com. How scientific research is like cunnilingus: a phenomenology of epistemology. https://metarationality.com/going-down-on-the-phenomenon You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Qual o papel de tecnologias como Inteligência Artificial na política? As conversas hoje em dia focam muitos nos perigos de usos como a disseminação de desinformação, espalhando medo ao mesmo tempo em que acham que elas próprias não estão sujeitas às armadilhas.Este medo é justificado, ou a mentira sempre foi parte da política? Há alguma maneira de usar bem a tecnologia na política e no governo, ou os órgãos de governo devem ser isolados do mundo tech? Nossos governantes estão preparados para esta discussão?Estas são algumas das perguntas que vamos tentar responder no episódio da semana, com Pedro Markun, hacker ativista que há anos vive neste mundo onde tecnologia encontra a política.O Boa Noite Internet só é possível porque pessoas como você apoiam financeiramente o projeto, assinando nosso plano de conteúdo exclusivo. Pelo preço de uma coquinha você também pode nos ajudar a seguir explicando o mundo através de histórias interessantes toda semana.LinksSiga o Pedro no Instagram, Twitter e LinkedIn.Siga o Boa Noite Internet no Instagram e no LinkedIn.Livro gratuito Better without AI, de David Chapman.anacron.ia, perfil sobre IA da Ana Freitas no Instagram.ChatGPTGoogle Gemini

Advisory: this podcast includes themes of mental health and suicide. Do you find yourself easily distracted, with your attention rapidly shifting between different things? If so, you could be one of the legion of women who are under-diagnosed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here, Australia-based psychiatrist and ADHD expert Dr David Chapman joins Dr Louise to discuss what ADHD is, how it affects women and the impact that female hormones – which have a powerful role in the brain – can have on symptoms. He talks about how ADHD symptoms can worsen for women just before their periods and around their perimenopause, and sets out the common treatment options, including increasingly the role of HRT and the Pill, and how lifestyle changes such as mindfulness can help women affected by ADHD. Dr Louise and Dr David also discuss how symptoms may only need treating if they are having an impact on a women's life. Download balance's ADHD and menopause booklet here. Click here for more about Newson Health. Contact the Samaritans for 24-hour, confidential support by calling 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org    

This episode is brought to you by AquaTru and Sweetgreen. The quality of our food is one of the fundamental pillars in building our health and longevity. With all the food labels, it's hard to differentiate between what truly matters and what is solely a marketing strategy. Lifelong farmer David Chapman is a whistleblower sounding the alarm on the certified USDA organic label and the practices behind the companies using that label.Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with David, a lifelong farmer, Co-Director, and Board Chair of the Real Organic Project, to discuss how the certified organic label has been hijacked and how consumers are being misled. Dave shares the truths about the hydroponic process, the differences between smaller farms and large-scale operations, and the government's shortcomings in regulating the organic farming industry. Dave Chapman is a lifelong organic farmer who runs the Long Wind Farm in Vermont. He is the Co-Director and Board Chair of the Real Organic Project, dedicated to reigniting and connecting the organic movement. David also leads the Real Organic Podcast and co-founded Vermont Organic Farmers. He serves on the Policy Committee of the Organic Farmers Association. His latest project is the creation of the Tomato Masterclass, a training for farmers working to create a strong economic base for their market gardens.In this episode, Dhru and David dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):The top ways consumers are being misled when buying organic (3:58 / 3:58)The impact of these misleading statements on our climate (13:40 / 12:06)Dave's mission and raising awareness (16:14 / 14:21)What is hydroponic and what it misses (19:27 / 17:50)What kind of eggs we should be eating (29:11 / 27:40)The government's role in protecting consumers and what is lacking (40:07 / 36:36)Careful and skillful efforts by small farms versus industrialized farms (50:38 / 47:05)The inability of farmers to become certified organic and the importance of trust (55:35 / 52:20)Requirements for grass-fed beef (1:02:58 / 59:25)Dave's journey in becoming a farmer (1:07:22 / 1:03:53)How the Real Organic Project started and what their certification stands for (1:11:25 / 1:07:48) The Non-GMO Project efforts (1:29:50 / 1:26:17)The certification process by the Real Organic Project (1:37:10 / 1:33:32) How you can help and where to learn more (1:59:17 / 1:55:50)Also mentioned in this episode:Real Organic Project Hydroponic debateAlexander FarmsAquaTru is a countertop reverse osmosis purifier with a four-stage filtration system that removes 15x more contaminants than the bestselling water filters out there. Go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ and get $100 off when you try AquaTru for yourself. Find out more about Sweetgreen and their newest protein plates at www.sweetgreen.com. New Users of the sweet green app can use the code "Dhru5" for $5 off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: On "Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths", published by alkjash on January 22, 2024 on LessWrong. Hey, alkjash! I'm excited to talk about some of David Chapman's work with you. Full disclosure, I'm a big fan of Chapman's in general and also a creator within the meta/post-rationality scene with him (to use some jargon to be introduced very shortly). You mentioned being superficially convinced of a post he wrote a while ago about how subcultures collapse called "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution". In it he makes a few key claims that, together, give a model of how subcultures grow and decline: Subcultures come into existence when a small group of creators start a scene (people making things for each other) and then draw a group of fanatics who support the scene. Creators and fanatics are the "geeks". A subculture comes into existence around the scene when it gets big and popular enough to attract MOPs (members of the public). These people are fans but not fanatics. They don't contribute much other than showing up and having a good time. If a subculture persists long enough, it attracts sociopaths who prey on the MOPs to exploit them for money, sex, etc. Although MOPs sometimes accidentally destroy subcultures by diluting the scene too much, sociopaths reliably kill subcultures by converting what was cool about the scene into something that can be packaged to sold to MOPs as a commodity that is devoid of everything that made it unique and meaningful. The main way to fight this pattern is to defend against too many MOPs overwhelming the geeks (Chapman suggests a 6:1 MOP to geek ratio) and to aggressively keep out the sociopaths. There's also a 6th claim that we can skip for now, which is about what Chapman calls the fluid mode and the complete stance, as talking about it would require importing a lot of concepts from his hypertext book Meaningness. To get us started, I'd be interested to know what you find convincing about his claims, and what, if anything, makes you think other models may better explain how subcultures evolve. In my head I'm running this model against these examples: academic subfields, gaming subreddits and discords, fandoms, internet communities, and startups. Do tell me which of these count as "subcultures" in Chapman's framing. Let me start with the parts of the model I find convincing. When subcultures grow (too) rapidly, there is an influx of casual members that dilutes the culture and some tension between the old guard and the new fans. This agrees with what I know about startups, gaming subcultures, and fandoms. It does explain the longevity of academic cultures known for our extreme gatekeeping. In Chinese there is a saying/meme 有人的地方就是江湖, which I would loosely translate as "where there are people there is politics." It seems obvious to me that in the initial stage a subculture will be focused on object reality (e.g. a fandom focused on an anime, a subreddit focused on a video game, etc.), but as people join, politics and social reality will play a larger and larger role (competition over leadership positions, over power and influence, over abstractions like community values not directly tied to the original thing). As the low-hanging fruits of innovation in object reality (e.g. geeks coming up with new build orders in starcraft, bloggers coming up with new rationality techniques) dry up, there is a tendency for those good at playing social reality games to gain progressively more influence. Here are some parts that I'm not sure about, or find suspicious, or disagree with: At least on a superficial reading there seems to be an essentialist pigeonholing of people into the Geek/Mop/Sociopath trichotomy. It seems to me more persuasive that all members of a scene have the capacity for all 3 roles, and on average the "meta" shifts as the ev...

David Chapman is an author, future podcaster, and massive fan of the 45th president. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about not only the continued rise of Donald Trump in the polls, but how Nikki Haley appears to be paid for by her donors and the Ron DeSantis campaign just never took off.     David is the author of the book The Forgotten Nine, which covers nine players in the "Dead Ball" era of Major League Baseball who should be considered for Cooperstown.     Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, as well as bonus podcasts per week. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur.   Tony is also on Rumble! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.   Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

In the '80s, David Chapman and Phil Agre were doing work within AI that was very compatible with the ecological and embodied cognition approach I've been describing. They produced a program, Pengi, that played a video game well enough (given the technology of the time) even though it had nothing like an internal representation of the game board and barely any persistent state at all. In this interview, David describes the source of their crazy ideas and how Pengi worked.Pengi is more radically minimalist than what I've been thinking of as ecologically-inspired software design, so it makes a good introduction to the next episode. SourcesPhilip E. Agre, Computation and Human Experience, 1997, contains a description of Pengi, but is much more about the motivation behind it and also a discussion of "critical technical practice" that I think is nicely compatible with Schön's "reflective practice". I intend to cover both eventually. Philip E. Agre and David Chapman, "Pengi: An implementation of a theory of activity", 1987Chapman linksMeaningness.com (including greatest hits)I found his ideas about Vajrayana Buddhism intriguingOtherA recording of a Pengo gameThe foundational text of ethnomethodology is notoriously (and, some – waves – think, gratuitously) opaque. I found Heritage's Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology far more readable. I've enjoyed the Em does Ca (conversational analysis) Youtube series. The episode on turn-construction units hits me where I live. She talks about how people know when, in a conversation, they're allowed to talk. I'm mildly bad at that in person. I'm somewhat worse when talking to a single person over video. I'm horrible at it when on a multiple-person conference call, with or without postage-stamp-sized video images of faces. CreditsThe Pengo image is by Arcade Addiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia. Fair use.

Why teach music to a student of engineering?  What is Ludomusicology?  "All humans are musical."  What do dissonance and Taylor Swift have in common?  How does a science student learn counting and frequencies by studying and appreciating music? These are a few of the topics considered by David Chapman, Associate Professor of Music, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  

Thanks for your patience while I ran Fluidity Forum. We now resume "Better Without AI" by David Chapman.   Speculations about autonomous AI assume simplistic theories of motivation. They also mistakenly confuse those with ethical theories. Building AI systems on these ideas would produce monsters. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation   Coherent Extrapolated Volition https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation#fn_Turchin:~:text=%E2%80%9C-,Coherent%20Extrapolated%20Volition,-%E2%80%9D%20at%20LessWrong%2C%20undated   A.I. Alignment Problem: "Human Values" Don't Actually Exist https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnWGsvTEiTASih/ai-alignment-problem-human-values-don-t-actually-exist   “Can we survive technology?” by John Von Neumann http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

The third of three combined posts for the #RPGaDAY2023 prompts. Find daily responses at https://castingshadowsblog.com For some great flashbacks to Year One, check out autocratik.com and David Chapman's daily posts. Get involved! Download the #RPGaDay2023 prompts infographic from castingshadowsblog.com to explore and share what you love about RPGs! CONTACT ME: [1] Send a voice message to CastingShadowsPodcast (speakpipe.com) [2] Find me on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube @Runeslinger [3] Ubiquity Roleplaying System Discord https://discord.gg/SDxH9xQDfD Thank you to The Arcane Alienist for the calls! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/runeslinger/message

We now begin narrating the book Better Without AI, by David Chapman.   https://betterwithout.ai/only-you-can-stop-an-AI-apocalypse   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold] Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Craig sits down with David Chapman and Anthony Boyd, the people behind RPG a Day. Together they unravel the origins and significance of this popular annual event in the role-playing game community. The episode begins with an introduction to David and Anthony, both avid RPG enthusiasts who have contributed significantly to the community over the years. RPG a Day, an initiative that garnered immense popularity, has become a cherished tradition among RPG players worldwide. Craig delves into the roots of RPG a Day, prompting David and Anthony to recount the inception of this unique event. David and Anthony explain that RPG a Day takes place annually throughout August. Each day, a specific RPG-related prompt is released, and participants are encouraged to respond in any way they prefer - through blogs, vlogs, social media posts, artwork, or podcasts - sharing their thoughts and stories related to the given prompt. Info: https://www.autocratik.com/2023/07/this-august-10th-rpgaday.html?m=1Intro Video: https://youtu.be/JjRGb2b-Xk8 Contest! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason376/episodes/522-RPGaDAY-Contest-e26tsum ********************* Support the show for as little as $1 month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Thirdfloorwars⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our live streaming content on Twitch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/thirdfloorwars⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Don't miss our RPG Actual Plays, tutorials, and gaming content on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA496705JLkpgAssAhetpdw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen to an excellent boardgame podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ascentofboardgames.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Go to the Writer's Room for 7th Sea Adventures! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/writersroom7thsea⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the great games from A Couple of Drakes: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://acoupleofdrakes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen to Thin Places Radio: https://thin.place/ Please support us by shopping with Gadzooks Gaming: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.gadzooksgaming.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get a cool T-Shirt or mug and help us bring you more content. The store is open! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thirdfloorwars.com/shop/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thirdfloorwars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ThirdFloorWars⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/support

Thanks to Che Webster for leaving the lavish sensorium that is Roleplay Rescue for a time to drift about in the cemetery of lost content. Yes, I pun. Visit the great stuff that Che is doing at the links below. The Blog: Roleplay Rescue's Blog – Murmurings from beneath the beard The Podcast: Podcast – Roleplay Rescue's Blog #RPGaDay2023 is on its way. Check the Autocratik blog by David Chapman for all the details! Also, check out this fantastic warm-up contest by Nerd's RPG Variety Cast as we wait for August to arrive! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MbqVZ41yLcUrRqjSJtDYK?si=9elxZk6IS4ao4Ni7kaPa9w We will respond directly to Che's call at the start of the show in a later episode focused on those ideas. Have no fear! Visit Keep off the Borderlands, Random Screed, and the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast for more segments and messages along these general lines! You can interact on these and other gaming topics by sending a voice message via SpeakPipe or sending me a recording via e-mail or Discord. Contact me on Discord: Search for Runeslinger#7592 until that platform changes how names work. Contact me by e-mail at runescastshadows at gmail dot com CONTACT ME VIA SPEAKPIPE: https://www.speakpipe.com/CastingShadowsPodcast Ubiquity Roleplaying Games Discord https://discord.gg/UFaHKQpj --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/runeslinger/message

This is another one of Runeslinger's Reflections from the Road episodes, now replete and complete with rain and hydroplaning! #RPGaDay2023 is on its way. Check the Autocratik blog by David Chapman for all the details! Also, check out this fantastic warm-up contest by Nerd's RPG Variety Cast as we wait for August to arrive! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MbqVZ41yLcUrRqjSJtDYK?si=9elxZk6IS4ao4Ni7kaPa9w No Callers were hurt or drowned in the making of this episode. Thanks to Spencer and Jason for their messages! Visit Keep off the Borderlands and the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast for more of those fine gentlemen. References to Roleplay Rescue abound in this episode. Seek it out to learn why! You can interact on these and other gaming topics by sending a voice message via SpeakPipe or sending me a recording via e-mail or Discord. Contact me on Discord You can find me on Discord at Runeslinger#7592 until that platform changes how names work. Contact me by e-mail at runescastshadows at gmail dot com CONTACT ME VIA SPEAKPIPE: https://www.speakpipe.com/CastingShadowsPodcast Ubiquity Roleplaying Games Discord https://discord.gg/UFaHKQpj --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/runeslinger/message

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #19: Hofstadter, Sutskever, Leike, published by Zvi on July 6, 2023 on LessWrong. The big news of the week is OpenAI introducing the Superalignment Taskforce. OpenAI is pledging 20% of compute secured to date towards a four year effort to solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment. They plan to share the results broadly. Co-founder and OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever will lead the effort alongside Head of Alignment Jan Leike, and they are hiring to fill out the team. That is serious firepower. The devil, as always, is in the details. Will this be an alignment effort that can work, an alignment effort that cannot possibly work, an initial doomed effort capable of pivoting, or a capabilities push in alignment clothing? It is hard to know. I will be covering these questions in a post soon, and want to take the time to process and get it right. In the meantime, the weekly post covers the many other things that happened in the past seven days. Table of Contents Introduction. Table of Contents. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Commercial LLMs keep the edge. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Can you? Fun With Image Generation. Valve says: Keep all that fun away from Steam. They Took Our Jobs. Then they came for America's finest news source. Introducing. If only it were as easy to forget. Reinforcement Learning By Humans From Feedback. United we grok. Costs are not Benefits. Easy mistake to make. Many such cases. Quiet Speculations. Questions that are not so infrequently asked. The Quest for Sane Regulation. Some small good signs. Another Open Letter. EU CEOs call on EU to not act like the EU. The Week in Audio. Odd Lots offers AI fun. No One Would Ever Be So Stupid As To. Is that what you think? Safely Aligning a Smarter than Human AI is Difficult. Formal verification? Rhetorical Innovation. The latest crop of explanations and resources. People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Including Douglas Hofstadter. The Lighter Side. Actual progress. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility Open source models often do well on open source benchmarks. So do foreign efforts like Falcon or Ernie. When it comes to actual mundane utility, or tests that were not anticipated in advance, the answer seems to come back somewhat differently. Lmsys.org: Quick note - we've transitioned from the deprecated vicuna benchmark to a more advanced MT-bench, including more challenging tasks and addressing biases/limitations in gpt4 eval. We find OpenChat's performance on MT-bench is similar to wizardlm-13b. That's said, there remains a significant gap between open models and GPT-3.5, which is exactly what we aim to emphasize with MT-bench - to highlight this discrepancy. Though not flawless, it's one step towards a better chatbot evaluation. Please check out our paper/blog for more technical details and leaderboard for complete rankings. Jim Fan: For most of the “in the wild” trials, GPT-3.5 just feels much better than open-source models that claim good performance metrics. Such “vibe gap” is typically caused by inadequate benchmarking. Don't get excited by numbers too quickly. Beware of over-claims. Links: Blog, Leaderboard, Paper. Falcon-40B is down at 5.17. Note that reasoning is the place where GPT-4 has the largest edge. Will they offer all that mundane utility for free? David Chapman thinks that without a moat no one will make any money off of LLMs. Other than Nvidia, of course. Will Manidis: the core innovation of Foundation Model providers is not technical it's allowing VCs to deploy $500m into a deal with basically zero underwriting that's $20m in fees, $100m in carry at a 2x for like . 10 days of memo writing and no customers to reference. David Chapman: Regardless of how useful GPTs turn out to be, I'm skeptical anyone makes much money off of...

Vaden comes out swinging against David Chapman's work on meta-rationality. Is Chapman pointing out a fatal flaw, or has Popper solved these problems long ago? Do moose see cups? Does Ben see cups? What the f*** is a cup? We discuss - Chapman's concept of nebulosity - Whether this concept is covered by Popper - The relationship of nebulosity and the vagueness of language - The correspondence theory of truth - If the concept of "problem situation" saves us from Chapman's critique - Why "conjecture and criticism" isn't everything References - The excellent Do Explain (https://doexplain.buzzsprout.com/) podcast. Go listen, right now! - In the cells of the eggplant (https://metarationality.com/), David Chapman - Chapman's website (https://meaningness.com/about-my-sites) - Jake Orthwein on Do Explain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irmwL97zGcM&ab_channel=DoExplainwithChristoferL%C3%B6vgren), Part I Chapman Quotes Reasonableness is not interested in universality. It aims to get practical work done in specific situations. Precise definitions and absolute truths are rarely necessary or helpful for that. Is this thing an eggplant? Depends on what you are trying to do with it. Is there water in the refrigerator? Well, what do you want it for? What counts as baldness, fruit, red, or water depends on your purposes, and on all sorts of details of the situation. Those details are so numerous and various that they can't all be taken into account ahead of time to make a general formal theory. Any factor might matter in some situation. On the other hand, nearly all are irrelevant in any specific situation, so determining whether the water in an eggplant counts, or if Alain is bald, is usually easy. David Chapman, When will you go bald? (https://metarationality.com/vagueness) Do cow hairs that have come out of the follicle but that are stuck to the cow by friction, sweat, or blood count as part of the cow? How about ones that are on the verge of falling out, but are stuck in the follicle by only the weakest of bonds? The reasonable answer is “Dude! It doesn't matter!” David Chapman, Objects, objectively (https://metarationality.com/objective-objects) We use words as tools to get things done; and to get things done, we improvise, making use of whatever materials are ready to hand. If you want to whack a piece of sheet metal to bend it, and don't know or care what the “right” tool is (if there even is one), you might take a quick look around the garage, grab a large screwdriver at the “wrong” end, and hit the target with its hard rubber handle. A hand tool may have one or two standard uses; some less common but pretty obvious ones; and unusual, creative ones. But these are not clearly distinct categories of usage. David Chapman, The purpose of meaning (https://metarationality.com/purpose-of-meaning) Popper Quotes Observation is always selective. It needs a chosen object, a definite task, an interest, a point of view, a problem. And its description presupposes a descriptive language, with property words; it presupposes similarity and classification, which in their turn presuppose interests, points of view, and problems. ‘A hungry animal', writes Katz, ‘divides the environment into edible and inedible things. An animal in flight sees roads to escape and hiding places . . . Generally speaking, objects change . . . according to the needs of the animal.' We may add that objects can be classified, and can become similar or dissimilar, only in this way—by being related to needs and interests. This rule applies not only to animals but also to scientists. For the animal a point of view is provided by its needs, the task of the moment, and its expectations; for the scientist by his theoretical interests, the special problem under investigation, his conjectures and anticipations, and the theories which he accepts as a kind of background: his frame of reference, his "horizon of expectations". Conjectures and Refutations p. 61 (italics added) I believe that there is a limited analogy between this situation and the way we ‘use our terms' in science. The analogy can be described in this way. In a branch of mathematics in which we operate with signs defined by implicit definition, the fact that these signs have no ‘definite meaning' does not affect our operating with them, or the precision of our theories. Why is that so? Because we do not overburden the signs. We do not attach a ‘meaning' to them, beyond that shadow of a meaning that is warranted by our implicit definitions. (And if we attach to them an intuitive meaning, then we are careful to treat this as a private auxiliary device, which must not interfere with the theory.) In this way, we try to keep, as it were, within the ‘penumbra of vagueness' or of ambiguity, and to avoid touching the problem of the precise limits of this penumbra or range; and it turns out that we can achieve a great deal without discussing the meaning of these signs; for nothing depends on their meaning. In a similar way, I believe, we can operate with these terms whose meaning wehave learned ‘operationally'. We use them, as it were, so that nothing depends upon their meaning, or as little as possible. Our ‘operational definitions' have the advantage of helping us to shift the problem into a field in which nothing or little depends on words. Clear speaking is speaking in such a way that words do not matter. OSE p. 841 (italics in original) Frege's opinion is different; for he writes: “A definition of a concept ... must determine unambiguously of any object whether or not it falls under the concept . . . Using a metaphor, we may say: the concept must have a sharp boundary.” But it is clear that for this kind of absolute precision to be demanded of a defined concept, it must first be demanded of the defining concepts, and ultimately of our undefined, or primitive, terms. Yet this is impossible. For either our undefined or primitive terms have a traditional meaning (which is never very precise) or they are introduced by so-called “implicit definitions”—that is, through the way they are used in the context of a theory. This last way of introducing them—if they have to be “introduced”—seems to be the best. But it makes the meaning of the concepts depend on that of the theory, and most theories can be interpreted in more than one way. As a result, implicity defined concepts, and thus all concepts which are defined explicitly with their help, become not merely “vague” but systematically ambiguous. And the various systematically ambiguous interpretations (such as the points and straight lines of projective geometry) may be completely distinct. Unending Quest, p. 27 (italics added) What I do suggest is that it is always undesirable to make an effort to increase precision for its own sake—especially linguistic precision—since this usually leads to loss of clarity, and to a waste of time and effort on preliminaries which often turn out to be useless, because they are bypassed by the real advance of the subject: one should never try to be more precise than the problem situation demands. ... One further result is, quite simply, the realization that the quest for precision, in words or concepts or meanings, is a wild-goose chase. There simply is no such thing as a precise concept (say, in Frege's sense), though concepts like “price of this kettle” and “thirty pence” are usually precise enough for the problem context in which they are used. Unending Quest, p. 22 (italics in original) Contact us Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani Check us out on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link How nebulous is your eggplant? Tell us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.

Part V of In The Cells Of The Eggplant: Taking Rational Work Seriously   Putting meta-rationality to work, in statistics, experimental science, software development, and entrepreneurship. https://metarationality.com/applications   Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry. https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult   This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version.   The full text of Richard Feynman's address about cargo cult science: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm   David Chapman's description of how most people can't draw a bicycle: https://meaningness.com/understanding#bicycles   An interview with Lucy Suchman in which she mentions David Chapman and Phil Agre's work, among many other things: https://web.archive.org/web/20200608155536/http://www.iwp.jku.at/born/mpwfst/02/www.dialogonleadership.org/Suchmanx1999.html   "Scenius, Or Communal Genius" by Kevin Kelly: https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

This is part 6 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).In the sixth episode Lulie Tanett joins the conversation again to dive deeper into meta-rationality. They talk about truth and correspondence, evolution, brains in vats, abstract propositions fairy land, the frame problem in AI, what making progress means, 'knowing that' as different from 'knowing how', and how Chris is always trying to secretly organize an MDMA sex party in the forest with everyone. Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthweinWebsite: https://frameproblems.com/Lulie Tanett is a writer from Oxford, England, specialising in applied critical rationalism. She is currently in teacher training for the Alexander Technique – an embodied mindfulness technique about how to get out of your own way.You can find her on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/reasonisfun and https://www.twitter.com/metaLulie), where she writes about philosophy, the psychology of how to get unstuck and flourish, non-coercion and fun.Website: https://www.lulie.co.uk/Support the podcast at:https://www.patreon.com/doexplain (monthly)https://ko-fi.com/doexplain (one-time)Find Christofer on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ReachChristofer

Just as in the last episode, this is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version. It fits well into Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously.   Rationality requires judging whether a system of reasoning applies to a situation — but that judgement cannot be systematic! https://metarationality.com/meta-systematic-judgement   Links mentioned in this episode:   A webcomic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal about probability: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4127   David Chapman's essay, "Nutrition offers its resignation. And the reply": https://metarationality.com/nutrition-resigns   "July 4th And The Extraordinary Providential Deaths Of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe", a textbook example of religious eternalism, political eternalism, and rationalist eternalism, all rolled into one: https://web.archive.org/web/20160314212725/http://www.apollospeaks.com/?p=4354   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

This is part 5 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).In the fifth episode Lulie Tanett joins the conversation to compare her current (critical) rationalist position with the meta-rational one. They talk about the historical lineage that CR grew out of, why Descarted fucked up philosophy for everyone, the correspondence theory of truth, pragmatism, objective vs. subjective meaning, representation as affordances vs. mirroring the world, how genes aren't theories, information, intentionality, and why a universal epistemology might not be a coherent idea.Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthweinWebsite: https://frameproblems.com/Lulie Tanett is a writer from Oxford, England, specialising in applied critical rationalism. She is currently in teacher training for the Alexander Technique – an embodied mindfulness technique about how to get out of your own way.You can find her on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/reasonisfun and https://www.twitter.com/metaLulie), where she writes about philosophy, the psychology of how to get unstuck and flourish, non-coercion and fun.Website: https://www.lulie.co.uk/Support the podcast at:https://www.patreon.com/doexplain (monthly)https://ko-fi.com/doexplain (one-time)Find Christofer on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ReachChristofer

David Chapman is the author of the book Forgotten Nine: Baseball Players Who Belong in the Hall of Fame. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain Podcast to discuss a few of those players from the pre-1920 era of baseball who have slipped through the cracks with hall of fame voters, and they also discussed some players who shouldn't have been deserving of a Cooperstown nod. Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $5 a month gets you bonus content, extra podcasts, and early access to guests. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur. Tony is also on Locals! Visit CheckYourBrain.locals.com and subscribe. Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [linkpost] Better Without AI, published by DanielFilan on February 14, 2023 on LessWrong. David Chapman (of Meaningness and In the Cells of the Eggplant fame) has written a new web-book about AI. Some excerpts from the introduction, Only you can stop an AI apocalypse: Artificial intelligence might end the world. More likely, it will crush our ability to make sense of the world—and so will crush our ability to act in it. AI will make critical decisions that we cannot understand. Governments will take radical actions that make no sense to their own leaders. Corporations, guided by artificial intelligence, will find their own strategies incomprehensible. University curricula will turn bizarre and irrelevant. Formerly-respected information sources will publish mysteriously persuasive nonsense. We will feel our loss of understanding as pervasive helplessness and meaninglessness. We may take up pitchforks and revolt against the machines—and in so doing, we may destroy the systems we depend on for survival... We don't know how our AI systems work, we don't know what they can do, and we don't know what broader effects they will have. They do seem startlingly powerful, and a combination of their power with our ignorance is dangerous... In our absence of technical understanding, those concerned with future AI risks have constructed “scenarios”: stories about what AI may do... So far, we've accumulated a few dozen reasonably detailed, reasonably plausible bad scenarios. We've found zero that lead to good outcomes... Unless we can find some specific beneficial path, and can gain some confidence in taking it, we should shut AI down. This book considers scenarios that are less bad than human extinction, but which could get worse than run-of-the-mill disasters that kill only a few million people. Previous discussions have mainly neglected such scenarios. Two fields have focused on comparatively smaller risks, and extreme ones, respectively. AI ethics concerns uses of current AI technology by states and powerful corporations to categorize individuals unfairly, particularly when that reproduces preexisting patterns of oppressive demographic discrimination. AI safety treats extreme scenarios involving hypothetical future technologies which could cause human extinction. It is easy to dismiss AI ethics concerns as insignificant, and AI safety concerns as improbable. I think both dismissals would be mistaken. We should take seriously both ends of the spectrum. However, I intend to draw attention to a broad middle ground of dangers: more consequential than those considered by AI ethics, and more likely than those considered by AI safety. Current AI is already creating serious, often overlooked harms, and is potentially apocalyptic even without further technological development. Neither AI ethics nor AI safety has done much to propose plausibly effective interventions. We should consider many such scenarios, devise countermeasures, and implement them. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/even-more-bay-area-house-party [Previously: Every Bay Area House Party, Another Bay Area House Party] People talk about “fuck-you money”, the amount you'd have to make to never work again. You dream of fuck-you social success, where you find a partner and a few close friends, declare your interpersonal life solved, and never leave the house from then on. Still, in the real world you clock into your job at Google every day, and in the real world you attend Bay Area house parties. You just hope this one won't focus on the same few topics as all the others . . . “There's no alpha left in bringing Buddhism to the West”, says a guy in an FTX Risk Management Department t-shirt. “People have been bringing Buddhism to the West for a hundred years now. It's done. Stop trying to bring more Buddhism to the West.” “That's so cheems mindset,” says the woman he's talking to. Her nametag says ‘Astra', although you don't know if that's her real name, her Internet handle, or her startup. “There's no alpha left in bringing Buddhism to California. When was the last time you heard of someone preaching the dharma in a red state? Never, I bet.” “I don't think red state conservatives would really go for Buddhism,” says Risk Management Guy. “Cheems mindset again!” says Astra. “Think about it for five seconds! Buddhism is about self-liberation. Conservatives love the self, and they love liberating things! The only problem is a hundred years of western progressives interpreting it in western progressive terms. Have you even read David Chapman? You just have to rephrase it in the right language.” “And what's the right language?” “Glad you asked! I'm working on a new translation of the Pali Canon. I translate nirvana as ‘freedom', maya as ‘fake news', and Mahayana as ‘monster truck'. Gādhrakūta is ‘Mt. Eagle'. Some parts don't even have to be retranslated! The sutras say that you attain the formless jhanas by ‘passing beyond bodily sensations and paying no attention to perceptions of diversity'. See, it's perfect! Red state conservatives already hate paying attention to diversity!” “That's offensive,” says a man in a t-shirt with a circular labyrinth on it. “Oh, and you're some kind of expert in offense?” asks Astra. “As a matter of fact, yes! I'm Ben Dannis-Arnold, Offensiveness Consultant, at your service.” He hands Astra a business card.

Cathy LeBlanc and David Chapman have a new book, a culmination of work they've been doing together for nine years. It's called "Mi'kmaw Moons: The Seasons In Mi'kma'ki." The book reflects the learning Cathy has shared with her niece, Holly, starting when she was seven. Cathy and David spoke with host Jeff Douglas about their new book.

Here's the second half of the interview with David Chapman in which we announced Fluidity Forum 2023.   In the first half, we discussed Fluidity Forum, a gathering we're planning for 2023 about metamodernity, sense-making, rationalism, metarationality, thinking-about-thinking, a metarationality curriculum, civilizational redesign, internal family systems, developmental theory, erisology, social media algorithms, conflict resolution, psychology, consilience, comparative religion, secular meditation, legibility & many other topics common in this space.   Many people asked me "what do half of those words mean?" I created a glossary. But there were a few terms I needed David Chapman's help with, such as the frame problem.   Links mentioned in this episode: Fluidity Forum Glossary The Bridge: Rationality to "Woo" by Evan McMullen on The Stoa   The Liminal Web by Joe Lightfoot   The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 by Peter Limberg of The Stoa

Welcome to the first episode of narrating "In The Cells Of The Eggplant" by David Chapman. This begins season 2 of the Fluidity Audiobooks podcast. Is this book for you? How meta-rationality can level up your work in science, technology, and engineering. https://metarationality.com/introduction You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-cyclic-theory-of-subcultures       David Chapman's Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths In Subculture Evolution is rightfully a classic, but it doesn't match my own experience. Either through good luck or poor observational skills, I've never seen a lot of sociopath takeovers. Instead, I've seen a gradual process of declining asabiyyah. Good people start out working together, then work together a little less, then turn on each other, all while staying good people and thinking they alone embody the true spirit of the movement. I find Peter Turchin's theories of civilizational cycles oddly helpful here, maybe moreso than for civilizations themselves. Riffing off his phase structure:

In this episode, I spoke with David Chapman, the founder of a leading NFT project, the Kusama Kings.The Kusama Kingdom is the highest grossing community led project in the Polkadot ecosystem. Offering holders private access to unique investment opportunities within web3 startups.We covered: How David decided to launch an NFT project, not coming from a Web3 background himself, where he was a qualified accountant Why NFTs were the best vehicle to achieve the ambition of improving accessibility to investing in crypto/web3 startups on a community level How he grew the community to a massive level where it was just himself, with little strategy before launch---Zencastr Sponsor a Podcast: https://zen.ai/themillennialentrepreneur2FREE SHARE WORTH UPTO £200

This is part 4 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).In the fourth episode they focus on Chapman's discussion of Robert Kegan's stages of adult development. They talk about Piaget's constructivist lineage, how one relates to meaning in the different stages, and give an overview of Chapman's 'Meaningness and Time'. Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthweinWebsite: https://frameproblems.com/Support the podcast at:patreon.com/doexplain (monthly)ko-fi.com/doexplain (one-time)Find Christofer on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ReachChristofer

“Definitely don't try and do it yourself. You're running a business, you have better things to do.” In Season 3, Episode 24 of the Boss Uncaged Podcast, S.A. Grant sits down with the Founder of Webrageous, David Chapman.

In this interview I am joined by Michael Taft: maverick meditation teacher, bestselling author, host of the ‘Deconstructing Yourself' podcast, and founder of the Alembic community. Michael recounts his lifelong meditation journey, describes his initial reluctance to teach meditation, the writing of ‘Mindful Geek', and his divergence from Shinzen Young. Michael reveals his troubled upbringing, crippling teenage anxiety, and intense experimentation with LSD and the occult. Michael also shares a transformative mystical experience in Japan, his practice of classical Hindu tantra, and details experiences of seeing other dimensional entities in daily life. … Link in bio.

 Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'.
 … Topics include:
 00:00 - Intro 01:57 - Looking back at ‘Mindful Geek' 03:09 - Reluctance to teach 04:49 - Secular mindfulness 10:09 - Diverging from Shinzen Young 12:52 - Michael's troubled upbringing 17:32 - Crippling anxiety attacks and discovering meditation 21:35 - Experiments with the occult 22:36 - Michael's magical explorations 25:40 - Chaos magic and massive doses of LSD 28:12 - The essence of Robert Anton Wilson 31:31 - David Chapman ruins everything 34:10 - Shapeshifting as a meditation teacher 41:36 - More on LSD 43:06 - Moving to Japan 46:46 - A transformative psychedelic experience 49:38 - Analysing Michael's psychedelic experience 54:32 - Living in the Jewel Ornament Sutra 56:48 - Seeing entities 01:00:17 - Learning to see other realms 01:04:20 - Extensive kundalini work 01:08:23 - Michael's practice of classical tantra 01:10:38 - Intensive underground retreat practice 01:11:16 - The essence of Michael's tantric journey 01:14:33 - Trauma healing and the energy body 01:17:20 - Integration and personal relationships ... To find out more about Michael Taft, visit: - https://deconstructingyourself.com/ For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

This is part 3 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman's two books: 'Meaningness' (meaningness.com) and 'In the Cells of the Eggplant' (metarationality.com).In the third episode they focus on the different ways Chapman and Sam Harris speak about the central insight of Dzogchen. They talk about the self as an illusion, rigpa, the four naljors within Dzogchen, emptiness, sutric renunciation and dangers of 'no-self', intermittently continuing, embodiment, Nietzsche's true world theories, spiritual bypassing, comparing non-duality and emotional fluidity, and why Chris thinks Sam Harris might be mistaken about the value of engaging with one's repressed emotional material.Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthweinWebsite: https://frameproblems.com/Support the podcast at:patreon.com/doexplain (monthly)ko-fi.com/doexplain (one-time)Find Christofer on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ReachChristofer