Bernie Sanders: "Very, very knowledgeable people worry very much that we will not be able to control AI. It may be able to control us." "This is not science fiction."

Related: a common trope is that purely rational, detached, unemotional thinking is more accurate. However, when it comes to normative judgments and assessment of one’s own preferences, leaning into visceral emotions can help one avoid Far Mode “cope” judgments.

This was the first and the last time I got impressed by an LLMs. 3 years passed, and this never got topped.

AI outcomes - we all become one with the machine and shuffle off our mortal coils to live as a hive mind of cyborg superbeings - we all die horribly and painfully in an alien world that has no use for human emotion, creativity, or intellect - +1.5% TFP growth for seven years

“If you’re going to work on export controls, make sure your boss is prepared to have your back,” one staffer told me. For months, I’ve heard about widespread fear among think tank researchers who publish work against NVIDIA’s interests. Here’s what I’ve learned:🧵

Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck to Susan Rice, quite some political diversity. Great job to all people Future of Life Institute that worked on this.

And China is dominating another technology class, one that was supposed to have inherent western advantages . Open link to source article nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Interesting observation from Wolfgang that I share - France has its problems but it also retains key strengths. Paris' fiscal crisis is mainly a political crisis - and solvable in principle.

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources tell the Miami Herald. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

New compute governance solution just dropped.

The spread here is pretty wild.

Amazing footage of a helicopter going down way too fast 😮 Great example of an important fact about perception: We don't directly perceive the size of objects; the perceptual system makes an educated "guess" based on prior knowledge, the size of nearby objects, etc. Link below.

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

This is incredibly beautiful. And, yes, this really is what mathematical research feels like.

Chart of the year: