Astral Codex Ten

Andrew Ng

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Andrew Ng

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Andrew Ng is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 25, 2022 and June 06, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Like overpopulation on Mars, to steal Andrew Ng’s phrase”; “‘Andrew Ng is adjunct at Stanford but this is just to keep him affiliated with the University’“. It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, ACX Grants, AR SCOTT.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: October 25, 2022
  • Last seen: June 06, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

From The Mailbag
October 25, 2022 · Original source
One way for me to be wrong about AI would be for the basic argument to be correct - we will someday have AI and it will be dangerous - but for it to be so far in the future that it’s not worth worrying about now. “Like overpopulation on Mars”, to steal Andrew Ng’s phrase. There are ways to push me towards this kind of thought process. If nothing interesting happens in AI over the next ten years, clearly it was harder than I thought and I should update down. If scaling laws suddenly stop working at some point, it was harder than I thought and I should update down.
Highlights From The Comments On The Academic Job Market
June 06, 2023 · Original source
2. There's also STEM/not-STEM. As a concrete example, the top-4 CS programs don't hire adjuncts in the way you think about them (e.g., Andrew Ng is adjunct at Stanford but this is just to keep him affiliated with the University). This dynamic is very different in non-STEM.