Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMichael Nielsen: belief
29 May 2024 Conversations with Tyler Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility
“If you look at, say, the culture around Jupyter Notebooks in machine learning, I think having those very openly available and widely available really has driven a lot of progress.”
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- 29 May 2024
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…Right now, how high are the marginal returns to greater openness? Put aside terrorists manufacturing new pathogens. Put aside people figuring out how to make their own nuclear weapons, AI problems. Putting aside the very negative, just if the good stuff were more open, how much more rapidly would science progress? Openness per se — that’s a very weak word. You need to be much more specific. If you look at, say, the culture around Jupyter Notebooks in machine learning, I think having those very openly available and widely available really has driven a lot of progress. You can just write your Jupiter Notebook with your experiment. You make it available to other people, and that can really drive a lot of progress. It’s not the same as making your journal article openly available. It’s a much more active kind of a material. Do I think that that is an important component in really significantly speeding up science? Yes, but it’s not — It’s not going to be 2x or —…
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