One of the Great Necessary Delusions of Tech is: You can't make fun of anyone who's actually doing or building. Even though you know it's dumb or a grift. It's like a stock market with no short-selling: Feels more noble, but really, it's just bad for price discovery.

There's nothing more incoherent than being mad about AI but supporting the Internet Archive on this.

Garrison Lovely You can read some of my previous writing about this case at astralcodexten.com/p/model-city-m…… , but my impression is you're uncritically buying the Honduran socialists' propaganda version of this conflict. A more pro-Prospera/balanced version: investment courts are a useful vehicle to

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pulling up every day in this fit

TEDx talk YC startup Forbes 30u30

Fukuyama was right

DeepMind just published AlphaProteo for de novo design of binding proteins. As a reminder, I called this in 2004. And fools said, and still said quite recently, that DM's reported oneshot designs would be impossible even to a superintelligence without many testing iterations.

self driving cars will be the greatest gift of personal time back to humanity since amazon prime. every person driving every car on the road will be able to do what they want instead of drive. billions of hours saved

At current capabilities, LLMs seem aligned under reflection. After all, they're seeded with the goodness of humankind and the will of Earth history. So alignment is mostly just correlated with the entity's lucidity and self-knowledge.

so little time in the day … so much left to accelerate

i would take a bet against ai developed molecules or drugs being the dominant sources of new biopharma IP in the next 5 years

Many people have been saying things like this, but this is quite false. 500m in damage isn't the end of the world -- it's a Tuesday in the global economy. Let me give examples.