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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1429 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
32 collections- Collection 3 cards
Articles I keep thinking about
Pieces that I return to over the years. Don't necessarily agree with them but I keep thinking about them.
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Tools for Thought
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
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The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
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How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
- Collection 20 cards
p(doom)
- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 1148 cards
Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
- Collection 2 cards
Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
- Collection 2 cards
ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
- Collection 9 cards
Books I've been reading
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Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
- Collection 10 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
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atproto stuff
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GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.
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One-way doors
<p>Oh no. <a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/one-way/">Read here.</a></p>
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When will average people feel AI’s impact?
We’re <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.
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GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next
OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.
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The bone-simple case for AI X-risk
AI risk is all other anthropogenic risks, only faster
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Loss of control
The future of AI is difficult to predict. But while AI systems could have substantial positive effects, there's a growing consensus about the dangers of AI.
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Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case
Sixteen weaknesses in the classic argument for AI risk.
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More Is Different for AI
Machine learning is touching increasingly many aspects of our society, and its effect will only continue to grow. Given this, I and many others care about risks from future ML systems and how to mitigate them. When thinking about safety risks from ML, there are two common approaches, which I'
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The bone-simple case for AI X-risk
AI risk is all other anthropogenic risks, only faster
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Gradual disempowerment
The proliferation of advanced AI systems may lead to the gradual disempowerment of humanity, even if efforts to prevent them from becoming power-seeking or scheming are successful. Humanity may be incentivised to hand over increasing amounts of control to AIs, giving them power over the economy, politics, culture, and more. Over time, humanity's interests may be sidelined and our control over the future undermined, potentially constituting an existential catastrophe. There's disagreement over how serious a problem this is and how it relates to [other concerns about AI alignment](https://80000hours.o
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Loss of control
The future of AI is difficult to predict. But while AI systems could have substantial positive effects, there's a growing consensus about the dangers of AI.
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OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
Nine troubling new reports in seven days
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Write Things Down
Writing things down is powerful, for humans and for AI; what comes first, however, is what to write, why to do it, and actually getting things done.
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Astra Is Hard to Monitor
OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:
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Resource recs on AI catastrophic risk
If nothing magic is happening in the human brain, things could get weird
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How I use AI
LLMs in everyday life and work
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A defense of AI art
It's not just slop, it's not stolen, it's not bad for the environment, and we should want art to be easy to make
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Ideas from philosophy I use to think about AI
Physicalism, functionalism, and lots of Quine