Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖
@mbrendan1
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The academy for philosopher-builders (https://t.co/mzj0DMJQBv). A law unto myself, just like you.
Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.
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Work with your brother. Go into debt if you have to. cc @CameronLMcCord
Work with your brother. Go into debt if you have to.
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@kevinburch @mbrendan1 @astupple @mackenzieprice @AlphaSchoolATX Alpha principal here. Homeschool version problem is that it doesn’t have the great afternoon alpha life skills workshops with peers that Brendan is talking about.
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Consistently so impressed with this group. Urgent, important work being executed with great distinction. Encourage anyone with related interests to follow and get involved.
We’re building the academy for philosopher-builders—people with both technical ability and moral vision to steer AI toward human flourishing. Here's a few September highlights from the @cosmos_inst community 🧵
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This also misses one of the major benefits of AI for education—something @jliemandt @mackenzieprice are pioneering @AlphaSchoolATX. It’s the idea of using AI to create more time for the irreducibly human work of moral formation. AI can compress 6 hours of content delivery into
Man, this is a bad take. Education is not only, or even especially, about utility (especially today!). It’s about enlarging the range of things a person can care about + enabling you to become the person you’re capable of becoming. Children don’t automatically intuit that
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🧵 This research basically says we should do the opposite of what every AI company is building right now. Instead of AI that gives you answers, we need AI that gives you better questions. And the reason why will change how you think about intelligence itself. 1/11 Think about
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This also misses one of the major benefits of AI for education—something @jliemandt @mackenzieprice are pioneering @AlphaSchoolATX. It’s the idea of using AI to create more time for the irreducibly human work of moral formation. AI can compress 6 hours of content delivery into
Man, this is a bad take. Education is not only, or even especially, about utility (especially today!). It’s about enlarging the range of things a person can care about + enabling you to become the person you’re capable of becoming. Children don’t automatically intuit that
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Man, this is a bad take. Education is not only, or even especially, about utility (especially today!). It’s about enlarging the range of things a person can care about + enabling you to become the person you’re capable of becoming. Children don’t automatically intuit that
What is the rush for kids to learn stuff? Anything truly important will be obviously useful to know at some point, and there will be thousands of YouTubers itching to have a go at it. And anything they don’t see the use of they’ll forget, or, worse - resent if they’re forced to
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Busy month! 🧵
We’re building the academy for philosopher-builders—people with both technical ability and moral vision to steer AI toward human flourishing. Here's a few September highlights from the @cosmos_inst community 🧵
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I should clearly talk louder in general.
Are there any philosophers out there who are actively + seriously using AI for speeding up philosophy research? (as distinct from ex-philosophers applying AI to AI safety or policy, or philosophers dabbling with AI in order to comment on it, etc.)
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@PhilippKoralus , @@mbrendan1 , and @cosmos_inst are engaged in some of the most important work on the planet.
🧵 This research basically says we should do the opposite of what every AI company is building right now. Instead of AI that gives you answers, we need AI that gives you better questions. And the reason why will change how you think about intelligence itself. 1/11 Think about
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Add this to your reading list: The Scaling Era is out today, written by @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_ and published (beautifully) by @stripepress. Gavin is a @cosmos_inst Fellow, a prolific writer, and one of the most interesting thinkers I know. Can't wait to read his words.
What is intelligence? What will it take to create AGI? What happens once we succeed? The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_ explores the questions animating those at the frontier of AI research. It’s out today: https://t.co/6GzEZyaggR
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We're co-hosting a Free Speech Symposium with @TheFIREorg This will be a small gathering of top AI researchers and policy experts. We've reserved a few spots for exceptional applicants working on AI for truth-seeking. If that’s you, apply at the link below ↓
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After one breakthrough, the NSA approached him about classifying the work. He almost gave up, but eventually Google came along, backed the lab, and saved the research.
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I once sat next to John Martinis at MIT while carrying a copy of Genius, the Feynman biography. He noticed it immediately. “That man changed my life,” he said, and told me how one of Feynman’s lectures, “Simulating Physics with Computers,” had left him bewildered, then
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for winning the @NobelPrize in Physics! Their brilliant work at UC Berkeley demonstrating quantum tunneling in electric circuits has been critical to our understanding of quantum computing.
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Pleased we had you talk to us at HAI Lab before getting NYT famous. Now you’d probably be too busy. 😅
Check out the NYT Article on Alpha School! It talks about our model, our guides (no teachers), and our plans to expand Plus it has a little tidbit about what I'm working on: Berry, AI talking stuffed animals for teen mental health I have so much pride for my school!
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⟢ All Systems Nominal ⟢ Congrats to @CameronLMcCord and team on building what is becoming a generational company
We just rebuilt our brand from the ground up. Our products show up on rocket test stands, manufacturing lines, energy systems, and defense platforms. Places where the stakes are real and the hardware has to work. As we showed up in more of these environments, we realized our
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Thank you @Kaleidicworld!
This is a fantastic lecture by Brendan McCord on Adam Smith, moral sentiments and the ethics of AI. Brilliant stuff from Panmure House:
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Please note @RyanStreeterATX’s unrivaled hair in the foreground
Powerful event on advancing American freedom with @Mike_Pence and @AmericanFreedom here in Austin Panel with @bgurley @mbrendan1 Put on by @UT_Civitas and Arena Hall #maha
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