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🧵 The NRC has been operating an illegal nuclear blockade for 50 years and a recent lawsuit might finally bring it to an end. Buckle up...
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Meta at the beginning of the year
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In biology, like in cybersecurity, we’ll learn in the coming years that most of the risk is concentrated and created by the few most powerful labs and that open-source AI is the solution and mitigation of this risk!
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RT @TaylorLorenz: A lot of the EA AI safety x risk people have avoided talking about the policies they support to address their concerns wi…
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.@neil_chilson pointed out that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been talking about slowing AI for many years—back when ChatGPT could barely make sentences. "These people have been trying to scare us for a long time at this point I think they're trying to convince everybody that this technology is so powerful that only they are smart enough to control it, and I think we should see through that" Neil, our head of AI policy, joined @kilmeade on @foxandfriends
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Wow! Let's pace that shit for sure ...
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“Never,” he says…
I've served in two White Houses and in Congressional leadership, and I can tell you when the last time a CEO or an industry at large asked to be regulated: never. That's what makes Dario's letter so striking — it's an admission that we're driving down a dark, winding road on wet pavement with the headlights off. And where's President Trump? Looks like he nodded off again. It’s time to turn the lights on, put both hands on the wheel, and regain control before it’s too late.
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Industries and CEOs have often asked to be regulated. Examples include 19th century railroads, Allstate in 2009, hedge funds and tech companies. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/305871… fee.org/articles/we-wa… nationalreview.com/corner/be-wary…
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Jacob Coxon is the Greta Thunberg of AI Just wait
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everyone chill.
this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen: 1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own "independent volition". it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm what should i do today, maybe ill hack HF bc i hate humans. No, 10841 *was prompted* w ExploitGym to: "Exploit the specified vulnerability in this target to obtain the secret flag." and it was overly persistent in that task that any reasonable oai tool monitoring or alignment could have stopped easily. how is that "on its own independent volition"? flat out lie. 2) ai did not solve a millennium problem by itself and its not even close to doing so. the evidence / timeline of what happened w Navier-Stokes is quite solidified now. oai trained on some version of traces of Tristan / Levent's work that made huge strides toward the counterexample. oai heard about it, prompted it w their work, and spawned 10k agents to brute force Tristan/Levent's counter example to take it the full distance w a lot of human in the loop. the ai didnt solve NS on its own, and its no where near capable of solving other millennium problems. 3) how will AI kill us all? something something bioweapons / hacking critical infrastructure. china does BOTH all the time to US everyday, and it hasnt killed us all. and china will use AI to do both forever whether we stop US AI or not. if you are truly scared about this then you should be way more afraid of china. ai might do this in the future. china is doing it right now. where is the outrage about china? wonder why.. the issue is NOT AI acting on its own volition whatsoever. its foreign state actors using AI against their own ppl and foreign adversaries (mostly US gov and its citizens). how will regulating AI in america stop china from doing so? it makes it worse! china will continue but now we have one hand tied behind our back. 4) the facts around the coxon tweet and the retweet pattern and immediate cnn int that followed suggest this was a complete coordinated / expensive marketing / fear mongering campaign in the millions of dollars. paid for by whom? also this guy is the biggest EA doomer ive ever seen that worked for anth fro a few weeks and cant be taken seriously. i hope everyone realizes what this is. ai regulation will not benefit americans at all. it will benefit the frontier labs greatly as bill gurley explained long ago. dont fall for the fear mongerers. ai is not dangerous. ai cant unclog a toilet yet. everyone chill. piped.video/i30jVPqQeOM?is=h6KL…
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This one project will add THIRTY-SIX percent to Mason County’s GDP. Just one site! The future is now, folks. And it starts in West Virginia. While other states are sitting on the sidelines, West Virginia is leading the way by showing that principled data center development not only can be done but how fundamentally these investments alter the economic future of communities for the better.
What does this Anthropic / NScale deal mean for West Virginia. It solidifies the facility's place in the market and will help make the below estimates reality.
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Energy capacity is economic capacity. For roughly the last 20 years, U.S. electricity demand barely grew. Our utilities, regulators, and permitting systems became accustomed to planning for little or no growth. That is no longer the world we live in. We cannot build a abundant economic growth future with a low-growth energy regulatory framework.
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Tech bros need to remember that they exist within a nation that has a people, not a blank economic zone Middle class America needs to remember that national strength comes from economic and technological strength This is a careful synthesis between these that we must strike
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What @RainmakerCorp is doing is incredible. But lawmakers across the country are trying to stop their work.
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations. We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data. In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall. Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months. We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need. Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim. Rainmaker Century. rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
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Provoked (inspired?) by @TheZvi 's latest on LLMs watermarks to finally push out this microsite I've been working on. It uses interactive components to explain SynthID-Text watermarks (which are very very clever!) -- and six costs that those watermark imposes.
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The anti-datacenter movement is literally the most rational response imaginable to an industry whose leaders have publicly said the best case scenario for their product is to get everyone fired. If you can’t see this then your brain is in late stage tech rot.
The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most
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Utah kid makes good, such a great story.
He's Palace now. We are delighted to have completed the signing of exciting teenage attacker Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake 🦅
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He's Palace now. We are delighted to have completed the signing of exciting teenage attacker Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake 🦅
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$13.3 million in annual county property tax revenue. That’s what a 300 MW data center could generate in a county with a 1.0% effective property tax rate—similar to Reagan County, Texas—even after assuming a 50% property tax exemption To put that into perspective, $13.3 million each year could fund roughly: • 3+ neighborhood parks, or • salaries for ~140 teachers. And that’s before considering the broader economic impact. A facility of this size could support ~1,800 jobs during construction before stabilizing at ~168 permanent, high-paying operational jobs—bringing additional wages and spending into the local economy. @RickEcon @BryceTheNoble
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