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Scientist and CTO applying behavioural economics to AI Safety. https://sphelps.substack.com/ https://sphelps.net/ https://www.lesswrong.com/users/phelps-sg
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substack.com/@johnkampfne...

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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Ah yes, that famous protection of free speech we’ve been hearing so much about.

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Alexander Stubb President of Finland 👏

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Weirdly, I wrote about yesterday's events in the Oval Office ONE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAPPENED. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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open.substack.com/pub/kschroed...

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substack.com/@beyondeucli... 🧪

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" price of this depravity would be to mark America irrevocably as a rogue nation, one nobody will want to deal with and nobody will trust to honor its promises." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"Everyone—and not just The Information—should be genuinely terrified that the richest man in the world has built a Large Language Model that spouts propaganda in his image" open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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"I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"Despite Trump’s comments, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"You want the power to get things done, but you also want democratic feedback and accountability, to restrain your human tendencies toward hubris, and to forcefully correct you when you are wrong. Otherwise, you risk turning into DOGE." open.substack.com/pub/programm...

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open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Austerity and trade surplus don't bring prosperity open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Neutrino photography is a thing now. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/steveste...

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Congrats to Andy Clark!

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"I have been scammed more than twice now by assholes who say they’re legit when I say I want to purchase stolen credit cards. I want to do tons of business but I DO NOT want to be scammed. I wish there were people who were honest crooks." open.substack.com/pub/programm...

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Nobody is safe. Democracy died today. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

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Just as our PM drools over AI as the "defining opportunity" of our generation & plans to use the tech 'to boost growth', our allies across the pond are closing down access to the tech…as Henry Farrell explains: www.programmablemutter.com/p/americas-p...

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youtu.be/t3874lxv4lI?...

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"X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual" open.substack.com/pub/programm...

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Israel did not cause the LA fires. open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

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The final push I needed to delete my Facebook account. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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chng.it/qsBvmXtxtg

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Any climate scientists care to comment? 🧪 youtu.be/P6EMJlt_Dsw?...

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"America, like every other nation, has been created anew ... My grandparents are dead. Their hard-earned warnings are abstract words fading into memory, and I wonder if the world they won will outlast them by much. " open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

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#booksky #bookcomics

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So, it looks like the story of the Seven Sisters/Pleiades actually pre-dates our modern civilizations...and we can tell because 100K years ago, there used to be a 7th star! That's wild. www.iflscience.com/the-oldest-s...

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LLMs will be revolutionary but in boring ways. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/programm...

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AI will not take our jobs even if we get actual AGI. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

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Not science fiction. m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2t...

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"When middle-aged scientists go through replication crises, some turn to drink, some to drugs, some to Bayesian statistics." books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp... 🧪

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Size matters 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/steveste...

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A genuinely heart-warming tale of scientific integrity. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9c...

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Dated but still funny "when Facebook employees are not actively making changes to infrastructure because they are busy with other things (weekends, holidays, or even performance reviews), the site experiences higher levels of reliability. " darkcoding.net/software/fac...

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Proud to be officially Steve #1493 on NCSE's "Project Steve". 🧪 ncse.ngo/project-steve

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UK government facing mild controversy over the 2 + 2 = 5 bill.

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