bradford
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rugged individualist. determinate optimist.
Denver, Colorado
Joined November 2014
“No one wakes up one morning and decides to stop thinking. We start by outsourcing the stuff that doesn’t matter and discover, weeks or months later, that the boundary between trivial and meaningful is getting harder to spot.”
blog.cosmos-institute.org
Allure All the Way Down
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What do you love most about America? "The aspiration for greatness. A propelling force to do more, to do better, to do something bigger. The liberty that provides you to reinvent yourself. The plasticity that creates in the culture. We don’t think about grudges from 300 years
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“We live in a soul-numbing era in which the greatest ambition of tech entrepreneurs has been to build a world of ‘online advertising, photo-sharing apps, and food-delivery empires.’
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The Moltbook stuff is still mostly a nothingburger if you've been following things like the infinite backrooms, the extended Janus universe, Stanford's Smallville, Large Population Models, DeepMind's Concordia, SAGE's AI Village, and many more. Of course the models get better
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I have come to see the AI ecosystem in the US is a multi layered loop in the @kevinakwok sense. -> build out data centers ( with energy generation) -> populate the data centers with GPUs / TPUs / ASICs. Each of these is a little ecosystem - networking , memory, software, etc,
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@gtagmemes @teslaownersSV There will be universal high income and childcare and I love humanity and don’t want us all to die out
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modern recommendation systems are by far the most successful examples of continual learning in production
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Funny that Palantir is basically the only bigtech company that holds itself at least nominally accountable to an ethical standard beyond HR memes and is arguably the only one that has been a net benefit to the consumer yet is universally despised because it has a scary logo
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The revolutions that matter are tool-driven, not concept-driven. The telescope, the microscope, the power loom, the computer—each one's meaning was determined not by its inventors but by its wielders. The doomers want AI to be a concept-driven revolution—something to theorize
Palantir CTO @ssankar reacts to @elonmusk saying AI will replace half of all jobs: “We’re going to grow jobs.” “We’re at the beginning of a prosperous boom for America that represents the Golden Age.” “Maybe there are going to be job losses, but they should all be in China.”
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THREE NEW MEMOS: 1) Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War
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In the race with China, everyday I meet entrepreneurs here who are building amazing technology and companies to help America win. I walk away after every meeting with reinforced belief on how much of a strength our innovation ecosystem ( capital markets , Silicon Valley, the
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CALLING ALL VETERANS. America’s warfighters are the best in the world and AI is the most powerful tool in the world. Combine the two and the result will be a renaissance for this country. The American Tech Fellowship for Veterans (ATF-V) is about unleashing that revolution.
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My column on Venezuela in @TheEconomist “Prosperity does not come from oil, decrees or even benevolent rulers. It comes from rights. Rights create private property. Rights create security. Rights create debate. Rights allow people to invest, to innovate, to dream—and to
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Wishing otherwise, as Donald Trump does, is delusional
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We need more rugged individualism, not less. Build on the frontier. Be independent. Decentralize power. Accelerate civilizational progress. Celebrate economic freedom.
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