@balajis's Latest X Threads

A better San Francisco is possible. - Start with 1-2 month experiments around the world - Set up pop up towns to recruit curious people - Have them contribute so it's break-even - Choose inexpensive locales to cut costs - And if it works, we "just" scale it up 5-10X t.co/jYqQPCVArP

Will the new Al Qaeda be Artificial Intelligence Qaeda? It looks the same: AI Qaeda And also wants to stop progress because it fears a hypothetical all powerful being... t.co/v4H5EEGSbY

Against Clippy, consider clipping. Clipping happens when something that theoretically exists on the computer hits a physical world roadblock. In theory, your model goes exponential! But in practice it can’t deliver a signal over one volt. t.co/N1RPqZEpG0 t.co/mh2T3WZtrj

A duality to play with. The internet was originally developed to be resistant to nuclear weapons. Digital defense against physical attack. Assume AI can eventually do anything a human can do digitally. What are potential physical defenses to a digital attack?

There’s an obvious solution: you’ll know you’re talking to a human if and only if they have sufficient proof-of-human. It’s the authenticity industry. AI makes everything digital easy to fake. Then cryptography makes it again hard to fake. t.co/NqhRq09LKf

AI is like a bug light pulling people back into San Francisco, California. But what happens when a city and state facing massive deficits decides to predictably turn upon its last high profile industry? They’ll attack them for automation. Then, punitive regulation and taxation. t.co/UYFkLZ9uR4

The concept of a low-probability-but-extreme-downside scenario is not some new thing. Dick Cheney used it to justify invading Iraq. If there was even a 1% chance of nuclear terrorism...well, we need to treat it as a certainty. t.co/KSqL32YR0d

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The answer is for Meta to formally open source the model so that legitimate actors can use it to filter any personalized spam. Otherwise only gray zone actors have access. t.co/T8Cm2HiCNF

I love you @sriramk, but the media flippening has already arrived. The New Yorker doesn't cover @MrBeast. @MrBeast covers the New Yorker. He has 100-1000X the engagement on social media. t.co/FVfZsEjbWV t.co/1wvSmdwvsY