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Also, this is a (semi-intentionally) evolutionary process where any communication medium that was visible to monitoring would disappear. So by definition the only ones that appear …

Solar is not (yet) economical for reliable, year-round electricity because of storage costs. China coal use is growing again this year.

Someone who left DeepMind over Google's agreement to provide military AI to the US government tried to get Jeff Dean to quit too: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind M…

> Release the base models and let the world do whatever with it. That will automatically produce the aligned scenario. For sufficiently smart base models, the aligned scenario this…

The AI experts who started the AI labs that are about to IPO were right, at least.

If AI is now ascending an economic learning curve from: 1. Extremely useful (Claude Code & Waymo now) 2. Doing ~everything we do (AGI & Optimus in a few years? 10?) 3. RSI (?) 4. B…

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It does introduce a dependency on South Korea's ability to defend its democracy, though.

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If (1) then somebody in the administration messed up badly. Glasswing has been a thing since April, and it's common knowledge that there would be some fuzzy edges around whatever r…

The statement said that even foreign nationals within the US would be barred. That seems intentionally unworkable to me, and makes me think that the intent was to be more restricti…

I mean, if the stated intent of an export control is to allow domestic use but prevent export, achieving the stated intent is impossible, because every developer in the world wants…

I think we should see this as simply silly behavior by a government. Export control is not an effective tool for controlling a consumer facing technology developers everywhere want…

To make sure we keep track of what we're talking about with loss-of-control x-risk, a sufficiently smart version of Claude Code is more deadly than any government's army of autonom…

Exactly. And within the AI safety discourse, your behavior hinges on what you think the default chance of doom is, and how optimistic you are about alignment work being able to lim…

One major source of conflict in AI policy / AI safety is that very smart people have radically diverging intuitions about how dangerous superintelligence is and how difficult it is…

The idea that AI companies scaremonger to sell models is a silly meme. Both OpenAI and Anthropic were founded by people who sincerely believed in the risk of out-of-control superin…

Reminded me of this post by EY. (You're making a different point about existing expertise, not LLM expertise, but I think it holds in general.) Every month a new guy discovers LLMs…

This was one of the rare critiques of AI doom that actually understands the case for it and presents them well, so I kept reading to see what its arguments for our safety against A…

Within software engineering, security, reliability, and scale also seem boundless. Software that never breaks (including because it never runs into scaling problems) and never leak…

Doing anything you want to do that does not harm anyone else, and helps some, is most certainly a human right. To arbitrarily repress this most basic impulse, the one to go after a…

Good luck finding any objective distinction between HN, Reddit, WhatsApp, Signal, or email + listserv and "social media"! Or finding any one of "social media's harms" that could no…

Or nostalgia for simpler times

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