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Philosophy Mondays: Randomness, Replication, Selection and Free Will continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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Loved doing the Hudson Polar Plunge with @gigidanziger.bsky.social and the team of Spark of Hudson co-lab, our affordable co-working space

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Wrote a post on Musk as a potential scapegoat for Trump: A Scenario continuations.com/a-scenario

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Philosophy Mondays: Judgment continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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Remember when Sam Altman said that AI systems could just "learn the collective moral preferences" in response to a question by Jack Kornfield about values? youtu.be/hn1Y6GVWUV0?...

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Philosophy Mondays (yes I realize it's Tuesday today): Choice continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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A Humanist Vision for AI -- Speech at the Paris AI Summit (Alternate History) continuations.com/a-humanist-v...

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"The right to be represented by a bot" needs to become a fundamental right for all humans. We need to be able to mediate our interactions with systems through AI that we trust. I also cover this idea in my book The World After Capital worldaftercapital.gitbook.io/worldafterca...

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I gave a talk 10 years ago titled at BIG Idea and a Bot Idea about basic income and the right to be represented by an AI bot that has held up well www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qo...

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Philosophy Mondays: Action continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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Announcing the USV investment in Miren blog.usv.com/miren

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Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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A simple proposal: Inner Alignment through Values-Based Pretraining continuations.com/inner-alignm... (includes an offer of grants for research)

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Blog Post: A Dark Forest of ASIs continuations.com/a-dark-fores...

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Philosophy Mondays: Knowledge continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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My talk on Energy and Progress (now with transcript) continuations.com/energy-and-p...

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My talk from the #DLD conference: Energy and Progress, aka Build, Baby, Build youtu.be/HKMAp5sttec?...

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I am shocked to find grifters grifting. NOT. $trump

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Philosophy Mondays blog post: Language continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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Weekend blog post: Musk, Weidel and the AfD's Nazi Problem continuations.com/musk,-weidel...

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How can decentralized AI win? It will never be as efficient as the centralized alternatives (because of communication overhead). One possibility is by aggregating otherwise underutilized hardware.

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Blog post: Announcing Philosophy Mondays on Continuations continuations.com/philosophy-m...

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I am interested in projects that liberate the knowledge contained in the big models, which have been trained on our collective output, into formats that are accessible and useful for everyone (and on which humans and machines can collaborate)

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Happy New Year everyone! First time that @gigidanziger.bsky.social and I celebrated in New York in many years.

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Watched and greatly enjoyed the first two seasons of Slow Horses. Thanks to @cindygallop.bsky.social for the strong recommendation!

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Political discourse is still stuck in Industrial age thinking when what we really need is an entirely new narrative in light of AI progress and attention scarcity.

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Recently read books: No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz All Fours by Miranda July Here One Moment by Lynn Moriarty Life as We Don't Know It by Sara Walker The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Consider Phlebas by Ian Banks The Player of Games by Ian Banks

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Revising my P(doom) down as I am revising my P(AI will rely on humans as useful idiots) up ...

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Great coverage by @wsj of what Eliot Horowitz and team are building at VIAM www.wsj.com/articles/piz...

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If Exxon actually delivers on this then it would be a fantastic solution to the currently skyrocketing power demand for data centers for AI. Carbon capture should be a regulatory requirement for all the gas power plants being built right now to serve this need. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

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New blog post about reasserting the rule of law continuations.com/reasserting-...

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Who is building an AI-native version of Wikipedia? Humans and machines working together to build out the knowledge commons.

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