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🇧🇷 Portuguese session https://t.co/PgYeLUmu4u
h/t andrewcv https://t.co/bGgfXY7NXy
Nick Bostrom’s new paper: >Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. > One could equally maintain that if nobody builds it, everyone dies. In fact, most people are already dead. The rest of us are on course to follow within a few short decades. For many individuals—such as the elderly and the gravely ill—the end is much closer. Part of the promise of superintelligence is that it might fundamentally change this condition." >Along one path (forgoing superintelligence), 170,000 people die every day of disease, aging, and other tragedies. >The choice before us, therefore, is not between a risk-free baseline and a risky AI venture. It is between different risky trajectories, each exposing us to a different set of hazards. >Imagine curing Alzheimer's disease by regrowing the lost neurons in the patient's brain. Imagine treating cancer with targeted therapies that eliminate every tumor cell but cause none of the horrible side effects of today's chemotherapy. Imagine restoring ailing joints and clogged arteries to a pristine youthful condition. These scenarios become realistic and imminent with superintelligence guiding our science. >We assume that rejuvenation medicine could reduce mortality rates to a constant level similar to that currently enjoyed by healthy 20-year-olds in developed countries, which corresponds to a life expectancy of around 1,400 years. >Developing superintelligence increases our remaining life expectancy provided that the probability of AI-induced annihilation is below 97%.
@brett02e @allTheYud @mattyglesias @benthompson @ESYudkowsky "doomer" has been derogatory for, at this point, very nearly two whole centuries. it speaks of a certain kind of temperament, and implies (via covert Bulverism) that the one who holds certain convictions only holds them because of this defect of his character. https://t.co/OFrIdI1uXS
An obsession with the wrong resources is distracting America https://t.co/YCqBhYHZGD
Historical PSA given historical work going with crypto in DC right now: https://t.co/vB0VH1Xh1j
The internet you know, is a false fork; it hasn't yet begun; it is starting now. AI is obvious (& safe to post ab/t at day job), but the medium changes w/ the biz model - more under the surface, outside sentiment for the masses, is crypto capital formation meets preserved state https://t.co/BTHnWqEE5a
🇺🇸 TODAY: Indiana Senate committee advances HB1042 allowing state retirement funds to invest in cryptocurrency. https://t.co/yRgEIdtxCM
This post from Dreadnought is bonkers, but Harold Bloom did say that the Macbeths have the only happy marriage in all of Shakespeare. https://t.co/OiAi0FWImE
"Boy, things sure are volatile!" Things said every couple of gens How much more so every renaissance. https://t.co/v0n0edBzYs
Once again, @mert explains the current moment in historic perspective. The world may have lost a history prof, but we're better off with an S-Tier founder in tech who knows history & how to interpret it today. https://t.co/gIMHmIVQbU
@mert Go team https://t.co/7GYAdLlv2P
Belated Valentine's Day gift should be arriving in misc folks' office / homes now :-) https://t.co/dnEi96jdEM
The Protestant French Huguenot line had tremendous impact on both England and America. Washington himself through his maternal line had Huguenot ancestry. One of the best, and few, examples of a highly enriching group of foreign refugees that were taken in. https://t.co/ajhVGp0rpg
@claudeai Copy error on the marketing site for Cowork: this video shows "SWAT Analysis", but it should be "SWOT Analysis". https://t.co/TEvCaQ8d4M
(New Essay) VC-Backed Startups are Low Status The traditional VC-backed startup path is becoming low status in the same way investment banking did. An aesthetic collapse across institutions, ideas, and founders paired with the world's tiring of tech has recently accelerated this shift. Some thoughts on the cascade, the generational divide, Anthropic vs. OpenAI, what comes next, and more.
'Shell-shocked by renewal rates' Colorized, 2026 https://t.co/wDNcDs83vW https://t.co/OLt7RtbW9u
(essay) Life At The Edge "Local AI" today is mostly about giving models OS-level access so that more files and context can be transferred to the cloud for inference. But intelligence is about to diffuse to the edge just as computing did in the 80s and 90s Some thoughts on rent vs own for inference, Apple events becoming great again, God models, and the coming dance of edge and cloud
Started writing @dittolive in my apartment ~8 years ago. This week I danced down Canal Street with a brass band and 120 teammates. We make operations unstoppable. Building the company behind that mission is mostly hard. Weeks like this remind you why you do it. https://t.co/HBQ8xVVPQR
LANCERS WIN! Bennett's grand slam -- her third homer in two days -- gives the Lancers the comeback victory as Gawryluk goes 3 1/3 innings in relief and Chapin nails it down with her second career save. Longwood back home to host Virginia Tuesday at 2. #SaddleUp | #GoWood https://t.co/6qRQGi2IkE
Pausing in remembrance of our fallen heroes. https://t.co/eZSxxVjUCw
Pausing in remembrance of our fallen heroes. https://t.co/eZSxxVjUCw
America’s Team 🇺🇸@AF_Baseball @DBU_Baseball #ND25 #TW20 https://t.co/HMC0X9JdF5
America’s Team 🇺🇸@AF_Baseball @DBU_Baseball #ND25 #TW20 https://t.co/HMC0X9JdF5
