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David Manheim

@davidmanheim

Lecturer @TechnionLive, founder @alter_org_il, certified @superforecaster, @PardeeRAND PhD.

Trying to help make the world safer, healthier, nicer, and fairer.

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Xander Balwit(@AlexandraBalwit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are thrilled to debut Asimov Press’ first article!

We begin our journey at Asimov Press by looking back in history at an innocuous little device for dispensing liquid that has become indispensable to science.

Making the Micropipette––by Metacelsus

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Artificial Intelligence is neither software nor intelligence but a secret third thing

davidmanheim.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-so…

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Artificial Intelligence is neither software nor intelligence but a secret third thing

New post: AI is not software
davidmanheim.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-so…

Artificial Intelligence is neither software nor intelligence but a secret third thing New post: AI is not software davidmanheim.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-so…
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Ami Dar(@AmiDar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Probably my favorite passage in the Bible is in Genesis 18, where Abraham, just a simple human being, implores God to be more compassionate. Even if you are familiar with it, it's worth reading again. For those who are not, God tells Abraham that he is on his way to punish Sodom…

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Alter.org.il(@Alter_org_il) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to see that on Jan 11 in Tel Aviv, @LessWrong Israel will be having a meetup on AI Safety with visiting speaker Mikhail Samin, who will talk about AI policy and preventing unsafe Artificial Intelligence, hosted by @BitcoinEmbassy / Israeli Bitcoin Association

facebook.com/events/1309702…

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Timothy B. Lee(@binarybits) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unfortunately, nutpicking has become one of the main forms of political discussion in the social media age. Probably the majority of tweets I see about Israel/Palestine on this website is Israel supporters posting about pro-Palestinian activists saying and doing crazy stuff.

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Timothy B. Lee(@binarybits) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wish the concept of nutpicking was more widely understood. In the early days of blogging it was considered bad form to find and criticize a random person with a fringe view of the 'other side' of some issue you cared about.

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David Manheim(@davidmanheim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There's an argument that LLMs and other deep-learning systems will remain limited and not generalizable to new domains.

Unfortunately, the things they argue these systems can't do soon are not relevant to 90% of jobs, and are probably less than 25% of the remaining 10% of jobs.

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'What I hope to do with my commentary is to normalize condemnation of Hamas even when people wholeheartedly support Palestinian rights and oppose Israel’s occupation and violence.'

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Alter.org.il(@Alter_org_il) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our most recent semi-annual update has just been posted, including:
- New board members Shahar Avin and Yonatan Cale
- Policy and Project updates
- Work on mathematical AI alignment
- Funding update

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8GFeQDsd…

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Adam Gurri(@adamgurri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

-Bureaucracies have some well understood failure modes
-'Democratizing' more positions just creates a corrupt spoils system
-Dictators kneecap them to prevent coups from within
-Only liberal democracy provides the best overall toolkit for competent + accountable administration

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David Manheim(@davidmanheim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'I want the world to be a better place, and I will make that goal a personal priority' is very different from, and much healthier than, 'I want to make the world a better place.'

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Hannah Ritchie(@_HannahRitchie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

LEEP is doing amazing work on tackling lead pollution.

If you're looking for an impactful role, then I'd recommend working with them.

Lead pollution is an underrated problem. For more on this, see Lucia Coulter's interview with 80,000 Hours: 80000hours.org/podcast/episod…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️(@ESYudkowsky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine a world where only LLMs need to do paperwork, only LLMs read the paperwork, there's no longer any limit on how much paperwork can be mandated, and humans just need to hear the results and obey!

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