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Multiple readings Harvard ai faculty Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Harvard ai faculty

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Iris van Rooij Spiros Margaris Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix tante Michael Zimmer +5
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official proposes strikes Chinese data centers

Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

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Hypervisible Karl Bode Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Why worry about the magic computer god killing us all when a bunch of cultists are dead set on that path anyway.”

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence”

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Karl Bode: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Karl Bode: best to pre-emptively napalm the entirety of civilization because our biggest companies don't want to compete and we spooked ourselves with sci fi campfire tales
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Why We Fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Hypervisible Luke Stark Hagen Blix

“Almost like we should ask ourselves who's afraid of AI, and why”

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Astra Taylor: Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), pr…
Astra Taylor: That means they see where their true interests lie. Growing numbers of people who have some or even a significant amount of wealth or privilege (again, hard to define) are realizing that there are …
Astra Taylor: For one, the bottom can always fall out. Even those with apparent financial stability can have their lives derailed by a climate disaster, job loss, a health emergency, or a domestic or global fina…
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3 experts · 21 posts · 16d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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3 experts · 4 posts · 6d ago
Hagen Blix René Walter Amy Hoy
Hagen Blix: I don't think we're gonna win until we figure out how to be better story tellers than the other side. Cause.. you know, that sounds like a cool world to be living in where Dwarkesh presumably gets …
Amy Hoy: no, we don’t. we have to educate people, in a way that’s easy and fun to read i’ve explained how llms actually work to a lot of people, and had it change their attitude. they’re often both more int…
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2 experts · 12 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Hagen Blix
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ted Underwood: Both phases of this are worth reading: the crisis, and recovery. (A structure that reminds me of a famous similar crisis in JS Mill's Autobiography.) Personally, not v worried that human beings wil…
Ted Underwood: I admittedly do a lot of manual data labeling (RA work). But I also get to resolve disputes between different models and force them to cooperate, which is PI / assoc dean territory!
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2 experts · 6 posts · 15d ago
Hagen Blix Amy Hoy
Hagen Blix: Surely pile-on worthy bs. .. but I think maybe the most interesting thing about AI shit like this is that it makes obvious that the "thought leaders" and op-ed writers of our world are largely tota…
Hagen Blix: The emperor has no pants, or whatever the saying is
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