Thomas Kehrenberg

Nov 16, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Thane Ruthenis |Leon Lang |Thomas Kehrenberg

As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman have been released. I have found reading through these really valuable, and I haven't found an online source that compiles all of them in an easy to read format. So I made one. I used some AI assistance to generate this originally, and then went meticulously through each email and checked them for differences.

Apr 23, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Johannes Mayer |Thomas Kehrenberg

You want to get to your sandwich:Well, that’s easy. Apparently we are in some kind of grid world, which is presented to us in the form of a lattice graph, where each vertex represents a specific world state, and the edges tell us how we can traverse the world states. We just do BFS to go from S (where we are) to T (where the sandwich is):Ok that works, and it’s also fast. It’s O(|V|+|E|), where |V| is the number of vertices and |E| is the number of edges... well at least for small graphs it’s fast.

Apr 23, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Johannes Mayer |Thomas Kehrenberg |Nathan Helm-Burger |Robert Kralisch

You want to get to your sandwich:Well, that’s easy. Apparently we are in some kind of grid world, which is presented to us in the form of a lattice graph, where each vertex represents a specific world state, and the edges tell us how we can traverse the world states. We just do BFS to go from S (where we are) to T (where the sandwich is):Ok that works, and it’s also fast. It’s O(|V|+|E|), where |V| is the number of vertices and |E| is the number of edges... well at least for small graphs it’s fast.

Mar 28, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Rafael Harth |Thomas Kehrenberg

Hey Nate, thanks for the 3/4 ass review of John's research. I'm not very familiar with the current state of complex system, chaos theory, linguistic etc. research so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. However, I am familiar with the metaphysical and epistemological underpinnings of scientific knowledge, think Kant, Hume, Locke etc., and of language, think Wittgenstein, Russel, Diamond, etc. And solely based on that, I agree with your critique of John's approach.

Mar 1, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Dave Orr |Thomas Kehrenberg |Richard Korzekwa

When you look up the color temperature of daylight, most sources will say 6500K, but if you buy an LED with that color temperature, it will not look like the sun in the sky. It will seem bluer (or, less yellow-y). Yet, 6500K is arguably the correct number. What is going on? The answer is Rayleigh scattering. What we perceive as sun rays on the Earth’s surface has traveled through a lot of atmosphere, whereby a lot of the blue light has been scattered away, such that the sun rays look a bit yellowish.