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Tim Hwang

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high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare / letter: https://t.co/Taapwkm4wM / editor: @defensecharts

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oh my god

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aliens dgaf about europe

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Today DoD released the unclassified version of AARO's Annual Report on UAP. Read about it here: defense.gov/News/Releases/…



the relative strength and authority of the expert class is inversely correlated with the actual volatility of the world at large


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oh my god

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If unaligned AGI is illegal, the only AGI will be unaligned

oh my god

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this is a policy failure

what. i always assumed he was pretty wealthy??

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inference compute feels distinctly american: any agent can make it in this world if they just work hard and pull themselves up by their mindstraps 🇺🇸

Inference compute scaling laws in ML are a rationality/self-improvement whitepill - implies that you too can get significantly better performance out of your brain by thinking harder, using techniques for better thinking, writing things down, etc.



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The @gwern interview. 0:00:00 – Anonymity 0:01:09 – Automating Steve Jobs 0:04:38 – Isaac Newton's theory of progress 0:06:36 – Grand theory of intelligence 0:10:39 – Seeing scaling early 0:21:04 – AGI Timelines 0:22:54 – What to do in remaining 3 years until AGI 0:26:29 –…


fair number of omissions here

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it will be hilarious if we authorize massive giga-scale compute *just* as scaling laws start to seriously break down the next thirty-six months

NEW: OpenAI's official "blueprint for U.S. AI infrastructure" involves AI economic zones, tapping the U.S. Navy's nuclear power experience & privately-funded gov projects, according to a document viewed by CNBC, which OpenAI plans to present today in D.C. cnbc.com/2024/11/13/ope…



"the advertising business model is the root of polarization and misinformation" has been one of the most dangerous memes of the last decade

four quick takes on 2024 and the new macro for media

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One week to go until the opening of the Museum of Malware Art in Helsinki.

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the groupchat is mightier than the sword


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good meme

the most consequential figures in politics are half guys like donald trump and half some guy named ronald who maintains an administrative process called 'runk' which stands for Reconciliation Underwriting Negotiation K and handles all approvals for every subcommittee on earth



the most consequential figures in politics are half guys like donald trump and half some guy named ronald who maintains an administrative process called 'runk' which stands for Reconciliation Underwriting Negotiation K and handles all approvals for every subcommittee on earth


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an idea so good it can make even Rumsfeld right

there's a weird alternative history we missed where rumsfeld constructs an american bletchley after the dotcom crash

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there's a weird alternative history we missed where rumsfeld constructs an american bletchley after the dotcom crash

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genuine delight when a game purports to be for kids “one to one hundred”


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