Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
@ns_whit
Followers
4K
Following
37K
Media
354
Statuses
3K
Fellow @ManhattanInst. Founder, @worksinprogmag (@stripe). Views mine.
Manhattan, NY
Joined April 2011
The 2024 GOP platform calls for abolishing the Biden EO on AI, and instead supporting AI development rooted in free speech and human flourishing What should that look like? In my new piece report for the Manhattan Institute, I argue for four principles to guide AI policy. 🧵
3
32
109
The cover of the First Part of my MAINTENANCE book--in print and on Kindle in early December. Available to pre-order. Link below.
16
25
469
Driving around (where else?) SF dropping off some ✨special packages ✨. Favorite stop so far:
The Scaling Era, by the brilliant @dwarkesh_sp with @g_leech_, and edited by @rebeccahiscott, is out today: https://t.co/ylTZn2VaMn Since we announced this book, the question we’ve gotten most is ‘why now?’
32
13
355
If you've learned a tremendous amount from @dwarkesh_sp's interviews like me, you will be amazed at the value of revisiting them in this book. It's the perfect way to introduce a friend to most important trends in AI, or revisit some of the best conversations about it.
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
1
2
51
GOOD MORNING NEW YORK CITY COME DO YOUR BEST THINKING AT OUR THINKING SPACE IN THE WEST VILLAGE SAY NO TO SLOP
292
198
6K
Every day starts with the full arc of joy and despair. The commencement of the morning coffee, and then its end.
0
2
9
💬 @leopoldasch, cofounder of Situational Awareness LP, on when we will get the first $1 trillion AI training cluster, and what it will mean for US energy consumption. Excerpted in The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_.
0
2
20
I welcome Mr. Huang's comments. I find them... clarifying.
JENSEN HUANG, CEO of Nvidia, calls the China hawk label “a badge of shame” and accuses hawks of “destroying that pipeline of the American dream.” “It’s not patriotic,” said Jensen on the @BG2Pod. “Not even a little bit.” No mention of how the CCP has abused Nvidia’s tech to
11
11
178
FAI is hiring! Come join the AI policy team to work with @hamandcheese, @deanwball, and me at @JoinFAI.
2
32
136
Exactly two years ago, I launched @HalcyonFutures. So far we’ve seeded and launched 16 new orgs and companies, and helped them raise nearly a quarter billion dollars in funding. Flash back to 2022: After eight years in VC, I stepped back to explore questions about exponential
14
25
130
Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen. Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year. https://t.co/sCOVnY1mf1
50
111
608
Amazing work, @ThomasHochman!
At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble. Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
1
0
9
San Francisco friends: @JoinFAI is throwing a party with @CatOrman1 and friends — DM for an invite!
3
6
67
Every week is Infrastructure Week now
Anthropic Co-founder, Tom Brown: We're heading into the biggest infrastructure buildout in human history -- bigger than Apollo or the Manhattan Project AGI compute spending is rising at ~3x per year That trajectory is locked in for next year; 2027-2028 are less certain
0
0
7
BIG NEWS: My book, The Land Trap, is coming out on Nov 4! I've been fascinated by this topic for years. The book tells the story of why land still occupies such a huge role in finance, economics and politics globally, and why that's a source of huge risk. You can preorder NOW!
55
105
834
Leap is announcing three new papers today, in plant biology, immunology and meteorology. All co-authored with scientists from leading institutions. All findings made automatically by our Discovery Engine. In hours! This feels like a big moment, and I wanted to share why. 1/n
13
43
218
Federal hiring looks for genuine signs of talent, like a part time MPA from American University
0
0
16
There are really 2 bitter lessons in AI. This is the second.
36
70
703