White pill: this is a false dichotomy. You don’t have to be either. You can get through life with both your dignity preserved and being able to accomplish a lot.
@tunguz
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Large-scale coordination problems in AI governance and society
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Any problem that requires large scale coordination of many human individuals and/or institutions is pretty much toast.
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AGI Timeline Implications on Problem-Solving Strategy
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TBF, if you *really* think that AGI is just around the corner, then kicking the can down the road is probably the optimal strategy for 99.99% of the problems we are facing.
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International Students Crisis Threatens Small College Town Survival
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I’ve lived in several of those small college towns. The financial situation of the colleges there is indeed dire. Many of them have been increasingly dependent on the international students for their survival. If those students decide not to come any more, those colleges, and the
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Outcompeting Market Leaders: The 10X Better Strategy
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"You need to be 10X better than the king in order to overthrow him." – Pat Gelsinger
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University Research Funding Inefficiency in Physics
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I have been skeptical for a while that the optimal way of answering *any* of those questions was by funding more *university* research. In my own filed, Physics, I've known with an absolute certainty for a long while that it was not. In the light of the current rapid scientific
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Google positioned to achieve AGI first due to existential threat
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Google will be the first one to get AGI because they are the ONLY big tech company for whom the rise of AI is an imminent existential threat.
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Daily tech failures eroding user trust and expectations
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For several days I've had experiences that undermine a certain basic expectation that things would just work the way they are supposed to. I feel that our basic trust is gradually being eroded through many such small daily failures.
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Spending $15B on AI: What’s the First Priority?
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Someone gives you $15B. What is the first thing you are buying?