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Base-model Montana farm kid somehow now working on AI and data infra in The Swamp.™ Opinions my own.

D.C./Baltimore
Joined March 2007
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the “I Voted” sticker stays ON during sex
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Debbie Ann and Giancarlo Paolucci, 32 and 35, pictured here outside their home in Forest Hills in 1986.
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Sometimes I think there should be an exchange program for coastal tech folks to go live with a flyover state family for 6mo and learn their values and ways I think it would complicate some worldviews, to say the least
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I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the sankey diagram from Aella's birthday gangbang
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Replying to @jfonsecarivera
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On bottlenecks: 1) economists have been exactly right about little extra growth despite very fast tech change. They thought a group of econs I organized were crazy >2 yrs ago at the AI labs when we said "1pp extra growth/yr through 2030". 2) bottlenecks *still* not understood 1/8
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Consider rotating your mothers maiden name and the street you grew up on
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Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install. You don't have access, well funny thing...
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Anglicized Native American names are by far the best place names in the US. If we're going to go around randomly renaming things we should be switching to those. Consider how much better Manhattan is as a name than New York, or how much better Kentucky is than West Virginia.
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I think AI will be a transformative technology like the internet by which I mean it will buy us another 2-3 decades of 2.5% GDP growth.
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this meeting could've been a decision by one competent individual
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qualia fetishist comes to his senses
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The absolute evil genius of the safety team at Anthropic. You want to stop open the Chinese government from releasing open weight models? You could ask nicely. Or you could whisper the words “abliterated GLM 5.3” where the public security community can hear it.
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how it feels to have never learned to code
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Okay, so saying Superintelligence and 'Super Intelligence' now both mean the AI in question is smarter than you, but for different reasons.
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This morning’s chat with Claude hasn’t exactly filled me with confidence.
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Announcing Sparrow Infrastructure. AI will define this century, but there's a physical and cultural gap between policymakers and people building the technology. We're going to fix that. Come to The Overhang, our first conference. It's about forecasting and futurism in DC on Sep 19-20. theoverhang.ai More tomorrow.
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If we ever have an AI risk color scale like the terrorism threat level, we gotta call the highest threat color "rouge."
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