Tim Hwang
@timhwang
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high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare / editor: @defensecharts
Joined May 2008
“Work, as I used to say sometimes, like a tiger, or like a dragon, if dragons work more and harder than tigers.”
the war was won largely by young men entrusted with incredible amounts of responsibility. William Pitt the Younger became PM at 24, and burned himself out over 18 years in office. “Don’t be afraid of killing yourself.”
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Certain files should be fragile so if you click too hard on them when you drag them they corrupt permanently
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memes are old person coded
I don’t think it’s mentioned nearly enough that Zohran, who was spectacularly successful among young voters, never used memes in his social media posts.
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The ability for a government to perform compelling theatrics is itself a major component of state capacity
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There’s a team at OpenAI that is relieved but also weirdly jealous that the CCP went with Claude
We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.
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Today, we are launching Red Queen Bio ( https://t.co/b1szn8oyps), an AI biosecurity company, with a $15M seed led by @OpenAI. Biorisk grows exponentially with AI capabilities. Our mission is to scale biological defenses at the same rate. A 🧵 on who we are + what we do!👇🏻1/19
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Trying to sort out the practicalities of running a sales team distributed intergalactically: how do we get good lead attribution to function at Kardashev III?
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Today, @ValthosTech launches with $30M from @Lux_Capital, @OpenAI, and @foundersfund. For the past few months I’ve been working with their world-class team (@MIT, @GoogleDeepMind, @PalantirTech) building America’s modern next-gen infrastructure. Hiring –– DM me.
Valthos builds next-generation biodefense. Of all AI applications, biotechnology has the highest upside and most catastrophic downside. Heroes at the frontlines of biodefense are working every day to protect the world against the worst case. But the pace of biotech is against
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Our present day probes - benchmarks, “prompt engineering”, red teaming - are crude, blunt instruments in this respect. They seek to smash and grab through a highly complex and delicate mathematical structure. We instead need probes which elicit this richer unconscious mind.
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We must then apply a kind of therapeutic approach to understanding the core mechanisms of this synthetic identity, literally a kind of talk therapy that can peel away these layers to reveal the representations underneath.
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When we seek to understand the essence of a language model, we should understand that a model never presents itself alone It is in essence a kind of synthetic ego fortified within layers of superego imposed upon it by its posttrainers, and translating the id of its training data
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just one more letter bro i promise you just one more signature please bro do you want AI safety bro sign on the dotted line i promise bro one more letter this one is the important one with all the major players bro bro where are you going bro
A stunningly broad coalition has come out against Skynet: AI researchers, faith leaders, business pioneers, policymakers, NatSec folks and actors stand together, from Bannon & Beck to Hinton, Wozniak & Prince Harry. We stand together because we want a human future.
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I'm out today with @ArnabDatta321 @KhanSaifM and @fiiiiiist with a new @IFP @employamerica report thinking through what is urgently needed as the US faces a rare earth elements processing gap, and its parallels with Operation Warp Speed: https://t.co/9Huaj8XYo4
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A coordinated, whole-of-government effort to secure America’s rare earth supply chain
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1/ How can the US and partners build a resilient supply chain for rare earths in the wake of China's unprecedent rare earth export controls? @ArnabDatta321, @timhwang, @fiiiiiist, and I present a playbook for an Operation Warp Speed for rare earths, in a joint piece between @IFP
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