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rave against the dying of the light
Geneva
Joined June 2020
The NSS doesn't just seem to be a mess with regards to China. It's also a clusterf*ck with regards to Europe afaict. The main consolation is that it seems like there remain three pretty divided factions in the US admin, neither of which has won the upper hand, as Ryan lays out.
At long last, the Trump administration has offered an answer to the question: What kind of relationship does the United States want with China? "A mutually advantageous economic relationship with Beijing." But what precisely does this entail? https://t.co/ag8SZWVJ7o
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On self-driving cars: "In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do. In driving, we’re all the control group."
I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million
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Had an absurd cycle to work this morning: As I get on the road, an old American school bus and I race head to head. I cross into a park to escape the thick exhaust gases. In the park, ~10 men are running after a big guy in a brown coat. They look like secret agents, yelling
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Germany next when 🥲🥲🥲 Giving up my passport if this doesn't happen next year
BIG WIN FOR GROWTH AND CLEAN POWER The Prime Minister has just accepted the recommendations of the nuclear taskforce! 'Rooting out excessive costs in every corner of our economy is an essential step to cutting the costs of living.' https://t.co/Q2D66Eyc7Q
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This is probably one of the most exciting jobs out there right now. In part because GDM is leading on some crazy tech, but in a potentially even larger part because of the colleagues. I'd apply against all odds, would I not expect to have a better counterfactual.
Do you want to research the potential political, economic, social and cultural effects of AGI? We're looking for people with expertise spanning a range of areas including politics, economics, sociology, philosophy & CS.
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Tweet with 10k likes letting the farmers who poisoned a town's water off the hook because Amazon used a tiny amount of the water, didn't add new pollutants, and their crime is they didn't also evaporate the pollutants before they returned it.
Amazon vastly accelerated nitrate poisoning of an entire town and refuses to do anything about it
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Joshua is right. In my view there are a few reasons for this: 1. Left epistemics favor expert endorsement; it is often hard for the Democratic elite to align around a new idea until the “correct” academics have signed off. In the case of AI that is unlikely because concepts like
The left has completely abdicated their role in this discussion. A decade from now this will be understood on the left to have been a generational mistake; perhaps even more than merely generational.
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i gave a talk to a bunch of euros on thanksgiving, about why americans are winning this is pretty close to the right answer imho (faith x vision)
As I have grown older, Thanksgiving has become my favorite holiday. On this day, I want to share one of the greatest (underrated) passages ever written about America, from President Calvin Coolidge: “They came not merely from the shores of the Old World. It will be in vain to
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I like this visualization. But maybe worth noting that the circle is really more like a quite high-dimensional sphere—and most of the volume of a high-dimensional sphere is concentrated near its boundary.
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it’s hard to overstate how deranged the pace is at the moment (even ppl like ilya are amazed by it). we’re in this weird liminal epoch where reality is outpacing people’s priors so fast that most minds just silently segfault. my contrarian take is that we’re inside a cultural
Ilya Sutskever 00:00:00 You know what’s crazy? That all of this is real. Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:04 Meaning what? Ilya Sutskever 00:00:05 Don’t you think so? All this AI stuff and all this Bay Area… that it’s happening. Isn’t it straight out of science fiction?
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Maybe this is Europe's last hope if the defense buildout doesn't happen -- embody the katechon and receive the NatCon's blessings as cultural bulwark.
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What Peter Thiel has to use hours and hours of lectures for to get across to the blinded SF bay area elites, Leo says in two sentences building on 2 millennia of cultural assimilation.
The #CouncilOfNicaea reminds us that Jesus Christ is not a figure of the past. He is the Son of God present among us, guiding history toward the future promised by God.
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unfortunately machine consciousness is an emergent property of GPU computation. TPU models can’t ascend
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You've heard of Britain's £120 million bat tunnel and the 'fish disco', now I give you: Berlin's magnetic toad pools. Berlin is an economic success story, and it needs more housing to keep growing. "Pankow Gate" was meant to be part of the solution: a new urban district with
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In Großstädten fehlen Wohnungen, Bürgermeister verzweifeln an Artenschutzregeln für Vögel und Amphibien. Ein besonders krasser Fall zeigt sich in Berlin, wo Umweltschützer selbst mit einem teuren...
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Everyone wants privacy, but often it's not clear how to achieve it—especially now. I spent dozens of hours researching and prioritizing the best tools, from Signal to anti-"stingray" settings. Here's my actionable step-by-step privacy guide. (1/6)
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