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AI partnerships tied aid dependency risk

Without an Exit Plan, AI Partnerships Risk Becoming the New Tied Aid

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“AI aid starts with free services. What’s left behind—data architecture, workflows, skills, running costs—makes switching harder every year. Rachel A. George on how AI can create dependence “without any requirement to buy.”” evidence ↗
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“AI aid starts with free services. What’s left behind—data architecture, workflows, skills, running costs—makes switching harder every year. Rachel A. George on how AI can create dependence “without any requirement to buy.””

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5 experts · 26 posts · 22h ago
Ben Recht Clément Canonne Suresh Venkatasubramanian Dashiell Joshua Grochow
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“No, surprisingly, Karmarkar's algorithm was immediately implementable, and the worst-case complexity constants were all pretty reasonable.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Clément Canonne: Of all the possibles takes on the claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, "it isn't a practical algorithm" is maybe the worst.
Clément Canonne: Just to be clear: there are many valid criticisms to make! But the fact that "the constant in the O(.) is big" is absurd. What's next, "most of maths is useless because real numbers don't actually …
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7 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Alexander Hoyle Alejandra Caraballo Colin tweety fish Mary Branscombe Matt Darling
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“I think if the coding capabilities and agentic features had never been developed, he would've been dead on. I've had to adjust my own view multiple times. I was wrong about it because I thought LLM…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 2 Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)
tweety fish: “Predicted fifteen of the last one stock crashes” somewhat famously does not count as being good at prediction.
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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Hagen Blix Tyler Shoemaker
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“Come on, it's not like these guys are connected to the US military? It's not like Amodei and Altman are giving speeches about their preferred geopolitical developments to the UN, or giving huge amo…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: Yup. 💯 And now he's also selling people on the idea that, ultimately, capitalism will just solve the problem on its own. Take comfort in the market!
Hagen Blix: Come on, it's not like these guys are connected to the US military? It's not like Amodei and Altman are giving speeches about their preferred geopolitical developments to the UN, or giving huge amo…
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