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Technologist and citizen. I learn as I go.

Sunnyvale, CA
Joined December 2007
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roon
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in 2026 an endless stream of Waymo’s from SF to LA overnight will be plausible. cozy travels watched over by machines of loving grace. the high speed rail project will have laid about ten feet of track at the cost of fifty billion dollars
@Waymo
Waymo
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We're officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State. Next stop: welcoming riders in San Diego in mid-2026! ☀️
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@FreeBlckThought
Free Black Thought
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Look what we've been publishing in the Journal of Free Black Thought! Check it out. (Link next Tweet.)
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@docgotham
Dave Gilbert
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My home office setup 😺
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@FreeBlckThought
Free Black Thought
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Out today in the Journal of FBT! (Link in next tweet...)
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@LauraPowellEsq
Laura Powell
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@JewishWarrior13 “I believe this is a city of international law, and being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.” Since when do cities enforce international law? Since when does ANYONE enforce international law?
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@noatishby
Noa Tishby
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BREAKING: The UN just voted to remove Hamas from power in Gaza and install a new governing authority in line with President Trump’s peace plan.
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@signulll
signüll
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you should never date a tennis player because love means nothing to them.
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@docgotham
Dave Gilbert
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Thoughts on the main issue underlying the recent government shutdown The Medicaid continuous enrollment provision implemented by the Biden Administration during COVID addressed the problem of "churn"—people losing coverage due to paperwork failures rather than actual
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space
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Dave Gilbert
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The real threat to traditional news isn't AI summarizing their articles—it's AI doing its own reporting.
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@pmddomingos
Pedro Domingos
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Intelligence is noticing deep similarities between superficially different things. Which then lets you make complex inferences about one based on the other with minimal search.
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@AdamThierer
Adam Thierer
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another banger from @JimPethokoukis about the relationship between popular culture and public policy as it pertains to emerging technology: ☑️"Pessimism is a tax on ambition. When people believe the future is doomed, they stop trying to build it." ☑️"In the end, progress is a
@JimPethokoukis
James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️
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🎬 Hollywood’s doomer economy The film industry’s continued obsession with dystopia betrays a cultural bear market in optimism https://t.co/nHjgOWRe5X
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@DavidSacks
David Sacks
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If judged based on consumer adoption, AI chatbots are the most popular technology ever. If judged based on poll numbers, they are the least popular. How to explain this? A big part of it is the Doomer Industrial Complex — hundreds of astroturfed organizations that have spread
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aipanic.news
This is your guide to the growing “AI Existential Risk” ecosystem.
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@pmddomingos
Pedro Domingos
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A computer is a universe governed by a single law: the NAND truth table. All the rest is initial conditions.
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@FAHayekSays
F. A. Hayek Quotes
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“There is only one such principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.” — Friedrich Hayek
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@slow_developer
Haider.
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companies need to stop hyping "vibe coding" codex or claude code is good enough to accelerate development 2–4x, maybe more on the backend but it takes a methodical approach and practice. that's not vibe coding; it's using a tool to move faster, and it takes work both Google
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@Noahpinion
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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It's wild to read about the 1600s when Europeans were known for their spirit of restless tinkering and adventure, while Chinese people were obsessed with the magnificence of their declining empire and with maintaining the status quo. How the worm turns.
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@signulll
signüll
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the uncomfortable reality is that ads fund the future. they are the only perpetual motion machine capitalism ever built. without ads, there’s no mass scale subsidy for free information, free tools, free research, free platforms, & free creativity. unfortunately every utopian
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a16z
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Palmer Luckey believes the U.S. can still outpace China in defense innovation: "I truly do not believe that [China is] too far ahead. There are a lot of advantages that the United States can still bring to bear.” "Even if there's only a 1 in a million chance that we go into a
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@pmddomingos
Pedro Domingos
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Regulation maniacs have already crippled America's industry, energy production, rare earth mining & refining, and much else. Now they want to cripple AI. I have three words for you: go to hell.
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