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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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Developing Compute & infrastructure Development 2d ago
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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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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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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.”

Policy & governance

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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”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
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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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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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 · 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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