Wes Chow
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Co-founder @ Filament, Researcher @ MIT. Working on AI & decentralized tech.
Boston, MA
Joined July 2009
RT @interintellect_: Come ready to rethink your relationship with tomorrow. Join futures designer Nick Foster & host @weschow for a salon….
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If you've been following the AI discourse, and I know you have, then the future this technology will bring is either humanity ending or transcending. Which is it?Nick Foster's book, Could Should...
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FYI, roughly the same number of people die from heat in Europe as from gun deaths in the US every year. Maybe fewer guns and more ACs?.
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RT @interintellect_: This isn’t just about predicting what’s next—it’s about understanding how we think about it. Join futures designer N….
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If you've been following the AI discourse, and I know you have, then the future this technology will bring is either humanity ending or transcending. Which is it?Nick Foster's book, Could Should...
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we need more micro-papers @FrankElavsky.
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Academic, peer-reviewed short papers are a common way to present a late-breaking work to the academic community that outlines preliminary findings, research ideas, and novel conversations. By...
You ran some cool regression analysis OK great. Make some nice graphics and put it on a Substack. Engaging headline, 1500-2500 well-written words. That's literally 100x faster than trying to publish in a journal and it's better peer review anyway.
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RT @interintellect_: How do we imagine—and build—the world to come?. Join designer and futurist Nick Foster with host @weschow for a forwar….
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If you've been following the AI discourse, and I know you have, then the future this technology will bring is either humanity ending or transcending. Which is it?Nick Foster's book, Could Should...
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RT @interintellect_: “The History of Tomorrow” .Join @weschow & futures designer Nick Foster to explore his book Could Should Might Don’t.….
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If you've been following the AI discourse, and I know you have, then the future this technology will bring is either humanity ending or transcending. Which is it?Nick Foster's book, Could Should...
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RT @TheAnnaGat: THE HISTORY OF TOMORROW. The great @weschow will be hosting this upcoming SuperSalon on @interintellect_ - just listed!. ht….
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If you've been following the AI discourse, and I know you have, then the future this technology will bring is either humanity ending or transcending. Which is it?Nick Foster's book, Could Should...
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There's always some generalized version of Mancur Olson's decline of nations being played out.
The view that imagines AI wiping out jobs or causing some overnight shock to the system doesn’t contemplate that companies are a made up of a series of bottlenecks. When AI accelerates work in one area, you run into a bottleneck somewhere else. As any individual workflow gets.
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Like reservoir computing, a fascinating and I think under explored method.
An interesting argument from Oxford biologist Denis Noble: AI needs to be built out of water to become truly intelligent
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What's the word for when someone puts much more effort into picking apart a position they don't agree with than their own position?.
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For all the talk about LLM hallucinations, misidentifying someone as Xi Jinping's daughter is *really* bad, and that was done by some collection of humans.
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I want this word.
What's it called when you make an argument with multiple points, built on lots of different evidence, and someone pointlessly quibbles with one unimportant aspect of one piece of it?.
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The Hendrycks, Schmidt, Wang paper on superintelligent AI plays out the game theory for if offensive AI is stronger than defensive AI. I wrote up some thoughts o the case that defense > offense. .
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People talk about scotus and Fed independence but maybe CBO independence is critical too.
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Some thoughts here. but would love to see better frameworks on this.
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Marx and Claude walk into a bar…
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Here's an interesting idea. AI erodes the distinction between capital and labor. So how should we think about wealth redistribution and inequality?.
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