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Cecil Yongo

@CecilYongo

Do not go gentle into that good night

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk(@CSERCambridge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'What makes us human is something worth preserving, and when the stakes are that high, I cannot afford to feel hopeless...'

Watch Nandini Shiralkar, Cecil Yongo & Haydn Belfield talk more about personal journeys into global catastrophic research👇
youtube.com/watch?v=oft7Yk…

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Sawyer Merritt(@SawyerMerritt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEWS: Boston Dynamics has released a video unveiling their next generation humanoid robot—a 'fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications.'

'Stay tuned to see what the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot can really do.'

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Cecil Yongo(@CecilYongo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Solidly agree, but can I just add one more time for anyone at the back: Patriotism and nationalism are scams.

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Cecil Yongo(@CecilYongo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some days you spend hours staring at your screen and staring back at comments. Other days you write pages.

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Matthijs Maas(@matthijsMmaas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've been invited to participate as an expert in the GC REAIM Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain, alongside an exciting group of scholars whose work has inspired me for years, to support military AI norms dev-
hcss.nl/expert/matthij…

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Ben Eidelson(@beidelson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deborah Hellman This makes the Court's admonition to follow the spirit of its ruling substantially indeterminate—it's not clear how to distinguish compliance from circumvention, even if one wants to comply in good faith. And it shows how hard it will be to build on SFFA in future cases. 6/

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Ben Eidelson(@beidelson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deborah Hellman and I have posted a new paper on race-conscious admissions after the Supreme Court's decision in SFFA: ssrn.com/abstract=47924…. We explore what the decision does and doesn't allow and what it says about the broader state of equal protection law. 1/

@Debbie_Hellman and I have posted a new paper on race-conscious admissions after the Supreme Court's decision in SFFA: ssrn.com/abstract=47924…. We explore what the decision does and doesn't allow and what it says about the broader state of equal protection law. 1/
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Cecil Yongo(@CecilYongo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lately I’ve been reading about people who take years to come up with books/ documentaries/ etc but when they’re eventually done they’ve created gobsmacking masterpieces. This way of doing things has a deeply spiritual appeal to me.

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Cecil Yongo(@CecilYongo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Given the option to either focus on one or focus on many, the lesson of my life so far has 9/10 times been to focus on one.

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Cecil Yongo(@CecilYongo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fair enough. But why do these calls to action ignore all the evidence that also shows so many people are not being listened to?

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Martin Kimani(@AmbMKimani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is a profound, immoral disconnect between those who fight and die in wars and those who initiate and benefit from them. Blessed are those who stop them

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