Is this to put pressure on or are they genuinely bearish on the US?

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Some words I invented that Dems might use soon:

Trumpflation - needlessly inflicted inflation
Trumpcession - needlessly provoked recession

When I look at the chain of reasoning when it's reasoning (in DeepSeek for example) it is not clear to me that a similar process cannot be trained in the humanities. Given enough examples of how to think like a philosopher/historian/linguist I suspect you might get impressive results.

Yes but with a temp of zero it is actually deterministic. But I agree with your next point that consistently wrong is not a great selling point.

What if the temperature is zero? Are they not deterministic then?

I don't know where Donald Trump got the idea that a trade war with his closest allies is a good idea, but Liz Truss cannot be ruled out.

Strong work.

I think you could add revoking the AI legislation to that. I'm not a fan of the text itself, but the chances of AI not causing some catastrophe or other are very slim, and then people will shout "why didn't our government protect us"?

$263 as I type. The French think if nothing's burning, there can be no protest.

Free speech is important because it prevents those in positions of power suppressing the truth. It is in service of truth.

Interesting now how so many value freedom of speech because it enables the truth to be obfuscated and lies to become fact.

The world is unravelling. Values are eroded; lying normalised; power ever more concentrated. Soon smarter than human AI will be controlled by a handful of people in a handful of companies. Is this how it ends? How do we fight back?

In Europe too?

It's a great article but as a European I have to wonder why I should prefer a unipolar world lead by Trump and the tech elite, rather than a more balanced world with China involved. It's not clear US dominance is desirable.

Nothing says you had nothing to do with Jan 6th better than pardoning all the people who definitely stormed Congress on Jan 6th.

Agreed.

I also think there's a risk of underrating the speed because the jump from "not very good" to "superhuman" is comparatively tiny. Also because the moment agents are good enough they can scale massively (unlike cars).

I worry about the narrative that because GPT4-level AI is complementary, that this will be so in two years. I think it breeds a false sense of security and prevents us preparing for the potential for widespread displacement of jobs.

There are so many unanswered questions about we manage a world of human-level AI, even in one or two industries. Every scenario I run ends up in a very difficult place for individuals and for governments.

A lot of posts saying Musk isn't doing this for the money. I agree, he's doing it for the power. A demi-trillionaire spend $40b to buy a social media site to assist a demagogue into power and then use him as a puppet.

Dystopian.

indeed

Cannot agree with this. You don't serve your children by shielding them from responsibility and you don't serve them by undermining trust in democracy further in the country in which they live. All his children and grandchildren are now less safe.

Shocked by how many are attempting to justify the Biden pardon. It’s a grotesque abuse of power.

The felon who hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law will be a top ambassador. Trump fully intends to degrade and humiliate his own foreign ministry. Most Americans are fine with the scheme. It is what it is.

Log in to X, check notifications: mostly conspiracy theorists trying to out-nonsense each other and the owner retweeting flimsy memes.

Log out again.

At least in my case I was looking for an alternative to X because it was simply an unpleasant experience (Musk, toxicity, ads, algorithmic issues etc.). Threads and BlueSky were the other options and BlueSky is a PBC and was getting traction.

Joining the exodus from Twitter. Pleased to discover that a large number of those I follow are already here.

Sure. A lot of those people were Europeans though. Just as great footballers all come to Europe, great, ambitious technologists go to Silicon Valley.