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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

@drtechlash

Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse.
Book Author: The TECHLASH. Former Research Fellow, USC.
Substack: AI Panic. Signal: DrTechlash.16

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Netflix Important context: 1. Effective Altruism created FTX: In FTX's early days, the philanthropist Luke Ding loaned Alameda $6 million, and Jaan Tallinn loaned $110 million worth of Ether. This funding "gave the nascent crypto trading firm set up by Sam Bankman-Fried and cofounder

<a href="/netflix/">Netflix</a> Important context:

1. Effective Altruism created FTX:
In FTX's early days, the philanthropist Luke Ding loaned Alameda $6 million, and Jaan Tallinn loaned $110 million worth of Ether.
This funding "gave the nascent crypto trading firm set up by Sam Bankman-Fried and cofounder
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The world faces real existential risks contrary to AI doomers' imaginary risks. - Sentient AI might terrify people and help us achieve an AI pause! Their ideas can't be more irrelevant.

The world faces real existential risks contrary to AI doomers' imaginary risks.

- Sentient AI might terrify people and help us achieve an AI pause!

Their ideas can't be more irrelevant.
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JD Vance said he read "AI 2027". Is he aware that - according to this project's lead author (Daniel Kokotajlo) - they just pulled numbers out of their asses?

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In the current AI talent war, everyone is focused on the big numbers (alleged compensation packages). It misses the bigger picture: the cultural shift following the DeepSeek moment. META is the American leader in open science (publications) and open source (Llama). Both OpenAI

In the current AI talent war, everyone is focused on the big numbers (alleged compensation packages). It misses the bigger picture: the cultural shift following the DeepSeek moment.

META is the American leader in open science (publications) and open source (Llama). Both OpenAI
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MIRI asked the US to pause AI development for… decades. The epicenter of AI doomerism wrote an RFI (Request for Input) on "Development of an AI Action Plan"(*), and it looks as you would expect: "Unless it has goals of the developer's choosing, ASI will put our planet to uses

MIRI asked the US to pause AI development for… decades.

The epicenter of AI doomerism wrote an RFI (Request for Input) on "Development of an AI Action Plan"(*), and it looks as you would expect: "Unless it has goals of the developer's choosing, ASI will put our planet to uses
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Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor once wrote: "If the two of us predicted an 80% probability of aliens landing on Earth in the next ten years, would you take this possibility seriously? Of course not. You would ask to see our evidence." Listening to Roman Yampolskiy's latest

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor once wrote: "If the two of us predicted an 80% probability of aliens landing on Earth in the next ten years, would you take this possibility seriously? Of course not. You would ask to see our evidence."

Listening to Roman Yampolskiy's latest
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In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP. So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG). They viewed

In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP. 
So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG).

They viewed
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A collaboration to automatically spam Federal & State politicians on AI "extinction risks" was launched today by John Sherman's new "AI Risk Network/ GuardRailNow" and Dan Hendrycks' Center for AI Safety. Their tool sends pre-written emails to Congresspeople/Senators/Governors.

A collaboration to automatically spam Federal &amp; State politicians on AI "extinction risks" was launched today by John Sherman's new "AI Risk Network/ GuardRailNow" and Dan Hendrycks' Center for AI Safety. Their tool sends pre-written emails to Congresspeople/Senators/Governors.