Sam Bowman 🇺🇦@s8mb
Competition law query - if Google, OpenAI etc met and agreed to voluntarily slow down AI development for safety reasons could it be treated as a conspiracy to form a cartel? cc @JohnFingleton1 @Sherman1890 @AuerDirk @geoffmanne https://t.co/8HK48SZ8aZ
Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian
Ugh @Google will "recalibrate" the level of risk it is willing to take when releasing AI tools, due to competitive pressure from @OpenAI. This is the kind of market-driven arms race we do NOT need when it comes to tech that could drastically reshape society, for better and worse.
10:08 AM · Jan 21, 2023
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Eliezer Yudkowsky@ESYudkowsky
This is the predictable, catastrophically bad outcome of @OpenAI showing off their ChatGPT demo. If anybody helped OpenAI do that, please stop and do not help them again.
Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian
Excellent reporting here by @nicoagrant
https://t.co/Qf0yjvWK6o
5:07 PM · Jan 21, 2023
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Eliezer Yudkowsky@ESYudkowsky
@gfodor @OpenAI Privately sell it to commercial customers without creating buzz or excitement. If they insist on exhibiting any capabilities beyond SOTA at all, do it with minimum fuss. Publish no models, no papers, and no source code. Change their name away from OpenAI.
5:16 PM · Jan 21, 2023
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Eric Spiegelman@ericspiegelman
I saw someone post one of these Venn diagrams to explain the British Isles, so I made one to explain Los Angeles:
7:06 PM · Jan 21, 2023
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Sean O'Leary@seanholeary1
Far too little has been made of the fact that batteries manufactured at the new plant in Weirton, WV are utility-scale and will enable greater grid integration of renewable resources that will replace gas and coal-fired power.
Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p
Iron-air battery, 10 times cheaper than current Li-ion cells, to start production in 2024.
https://t.co/wrLKycSiHh
1:39 AM · Jan 22, 2023
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Calgie@christiancalgie
Guess what happened to New Zealand house building rates six years ago
Matthew Maltman @1finaleffort
6 years in the making - Auckland's rents are now lower in real terms then they were at the time of upzoning in December 2016. The rest of the country is up over 10% of the same period. A short thread. https://t.co/pXxssJbAgX
6:35 AM · Jan 22, 2023
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Olena Halushka@OlenaHalushka
There are very high chances that the victory of the allied forces of Taipei, Washington and Tokyo can be achieved with no casualties at all if russia is defeated in Ukraine and all dictators get the ironclad message that aggressive wars of conquest won't be allowed. You choose
Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @AMFChina
"A war-game exercise showed heavy casualties, but ultimately a victory for the allied forces of Taipei, Washington and Tokyo." https://t.co/2wSuPgp6BB
7:32 AM · Jan 22, 2023
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Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
Hi everyone, just posted my latest weekend update. This was an important and very good week for Ukraine in this horrible war. German prevarication is getting the coverage, but much of Europe and the USA are heading in the direction of Ukrainian victory. https://t.co/rV1O8nYoMP
Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien
Phillips’s Newsletter: Weekend Update #12 https://t.co/RB3Jk6XVIn
3:38 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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Jenny Schuetz@jenny_schuetz
Imagine a zoning code that *only* allowed 5-over-1s on 70% of land, all other structure types were banned. That would be a "one size fits all" upzoning. Allowing rowhouses, duplexes, & various sizes of apartments *in addition to* SF detached is in fact legalizing diversity.
6:15 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Dear Lord. Who on Earth would want to tie their monetary policy to Argentina's???
Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1
This is insane. https://t.co/uYQ8pHzfCi
6:40 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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Lady Emily@GreatCheshire
Thinking about how episode 10 of Andor they had Andy Serkis deliver probably the best written, best acted monologue in Star Wars and then instead of ending the episode, five minutes later they give Stellan Skarsgård probably the best written, best acted monologue in Star Wars
6:44 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the most cursed dual-axis charts you will see in your lifetime.
St. Louis Fed @stlouisfed
An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes https://t.co/3ln08vOKAo https://t.co/yqK6MqwQUm
9:08 PM · Jan 22, 2023
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James Medlock@jdcmedlock
All of these claims are wrong, but the “better food” one is the most wrong. Pre-Colombian exchange, no one had ever eaten chile peppers and garlic in the same meal, what a deprived life
Trad West @trad_west_
Medieval Peasants:
1. Worked less hours than you.
2. Had longer vacations than you
3. Likely had a bigger house than you.
4. Definitely had higher T.
5. Ate better food than you.
6. Paid way less taxes.
7. Rarely saw their "boss"
Who's really living in the dark ages?
3:18 AM · Jan 23, 2023
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kate wagner@mcmansionhell
If you have seasonal depression and are able to go see a doctor and get a basic blood test done I highly recommend it because it turned out I was severely severely vitamin D deficient. I got a script for high dose weekly pills and it has made an insane difference.
4:19 AM · Jan 23, 2023
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