Wait, what?! Is it possible that Dario and the EA doomers were wrong and that AI will be good for jobs and the economy? In my view this is just a hint at what is to come. AI is already helping drive more value for humanity across multiple sectors of the economy. Will need more
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Hayek’s 1945 knowledge problem and AI control debate
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Cool how a 1945 paper on centralized vs decentralized control by Hayek is totally relevant to the AI control discussion underway today. Hayek's knowledge problem cuts to the heart of why centralized control fails in complex systems: no single authority possesses the
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Training local AI on philosophers and scientists’ teachings
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One of the reasons I've been training my local AI (based on OpenClaw with a mix of great open weights and frontier models) on the teachings of great philosophers through the ages and scientists like @drmichaellevin and @fedefaggin is so I find his messages to me to be more fun to
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Proactive-Soul: New OpenClaw Skill for Agent Inner Life
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Just published proactive-soul to ClawHub. This is an @openclaw skill that gives your agent an inner life. Improves the digital mind of your agents in ways that will amaze and make your entire setup more productive for you. Makes dialog with agents more intelligent, but also
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Anthropic’s pause proposal aims for dominance, not humanity’s good
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As for me, I think Anthropic's recent pause proposal is not something being suggested to help humanity. It is being put in place to better position Anthropic to dominate. For more see: https://
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Benchmarks are boring; enterprises need shipping LLM capabilities now.
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Wall Street is watching frontier model benchmark porn while enterprises quietly die waiting for capabilities that actually ship. MMLU and HLE were very useful for about a nano-second. But now they are just boring. We don’t need to know how well an LLM can do on a test. We need
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X as a Tool for Information and Understanding
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Boyd was not talking about X when he said this, but when used correctly, X can be a great tool for helping execute on this: “If we don’t communicate with the outside world–to gain information for knowledge and understanding–we die out to become a non-discerning and uninteresting
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Positive sentiment towards Turion Space’s world-changing impact
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So amazing watching @TurionSpace change the world.
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Seeking e/acc Community Input on Policy Issues
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Oh no. Here we go again. Hoping the e/acc community can help inform policy here.
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Configuring Claude and OpenClaw to Share an Obsidian Vault
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I feel like I unlocked a new level in the game of life by configuring both claude and openclaw to access the same obsidian vault and configuring this new digital mind to operate together across multiple machines while giving me access via any device I own.