Tim Hwang
@timhwang
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high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare / letter: https://t.co/Taapwkm4wM / editor: @defensecharts
Joined May 2008
Never attribute to brilliance that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities.
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rewatching old episodes of firing line and the guest list is just insane
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What is the greatest, rarest PDF that you have saved down?.
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all of nate silver’s exquisite statistical machinery churning and churning to produce a dead on uncertain prediction is genuinely poetic and cosmically funny - like the end of a borges story.
It's published. We ran 80,000 simulations tonight. Harris won in 40,012.
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wonder if any organized crime organizations run on jira, or if they have their own industry specific solution.
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bring back the insane copywriting style of the j. peterman catalog
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Stop scrolling and listen to me very carefully: . You need to buy land here asap.
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i would sign up for a service called AmateurClass where you pay a random person to try to explain something they've done once or twice.
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the year is 2030: olfactory anthropology dominates the intellectual landscape, rendering economics and computer science obsolete; Louks confirmed unanimously as US Secretary of Odor; nearly all artificial intelligences communicate with humans primarily through a nasal interface.
She’s still doing a million views an hour. Insane. There are people in Indonesia studying her thesis now. It’s the most downloaded research in her field for the last 100 years. Her citation count 10x-ed and her h-index is now higher than Einstein.
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🧠 ai thought-leader slide deck starter pack:. ✅ robot and human hands shaking. ✅ exploding brain made of ones and zeroes. ✅ photo of frusturated looking lee sedol . ✅ slide that just says “BLOCKCHAIN?”.
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my ideal email response, courtesy nikola tesla, 1908: . "i agree with you that the subject is most interesting. but to express myself in regard to it would necessitate a concentration of thought which, in the midst of my present labors, is impossible for me"
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it’s hard to really internalize *how* young until you see feynman’s badge photo
Richard Feynman on the Manhattan Project, age ~25.
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🚨 MAJOR @COGSECCONF NEWS 🚨. pleased to announce that we've confirmed a fireside chat with @danrather (!) and @contrapoints (!) talking about the truth, disinformation, and the future of the media. moderated by the inimitable @trufelman!. register today:
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EITHER advertising works, platforms bear political responsibility. OR advertising doesn’t work, business model is a fraud
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, he found himself with an opportunity to drive a lot of engagement.
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🍾💸 it's actually only a "startup" if it comes from the venture region of california. otherwise, it's just sparkling capitalism.
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lord let this season focus mainly on the fact that death star construction is being held back to protect a rare and endangered species of asteroid duck.
Empire Magazine reveals that Director Orson Krennic in this season of #Andor is in charge of raising money to build the Death Star and is behind on schedule and over budget.
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fifty years ago: susan sontag and jane jacobs in jail following an antiwar protest (december 1967)
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when people ask me what deep tech company i admire the most, my answer is always the same: . acme corporation
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project - a strunk & white for proper emoji style:. up to three sequential emoji are permitted, but no more 😎🙏🥇. 👉 hand gestures should never split a line of text . ✨ certain emoji must be used only as paired brackets for text ✨.
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Amazing transcript: Aug 6-7, 1945 - imprisoned Nazi physicists learn about the atomic bomb for the first time:
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🪞 inversions 🪞. venture capital: occasionally so unconcerned about profit-and-loss that it operates as a kind of bizarro philanthropy. philanthropy: occasionally so obsessed with metrics and returns that it operates as a kind of bizarro for-profit.
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💡 idea: . a co-working space for freelancers that comes staffed with character actors that play various roles (middle manager, gossip, intern, jaded veteran). “it’s like ren faire for capitalism!”.
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got this at a yard sale this morning and basically the weekend is already a massive success
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all the hottest startups use . ✨ e i g e n v e c t o r d e c o m p o s i t i o n ✨.
Stitch Fix is using something called eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics, to tease apart the overlapping “notes” in an individual’s style. Using physics, the team can better understand the complexities of the clients’ style minds.
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New job! Excited to be joining the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund as its Director. Announced earlier this year:
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i’m excited to be launching this today: . “trade journal cooperative”, a subscription service which delivers a niche trade journal to your door once a quarter.
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this dumb thing is responsible for so much harm - a genuine infohazard
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recently concluded that my absolute favorite packaging design paradigm is “portrait of the founder looking grumpy”
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shoutout to the guy on my flight who watched the first five minutes of oppenheimer, scrolled to watch the whole trinity detonation scene, and then turned the whole film off and went to sleep.
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while we’re on the topic of gift guides LOOK AT THIS LEGO SET ASML SELLS. h/t @ZacharyGraves
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one thing frequently missed in discussions about artificial intelligence is the complex role that hardware plays in shaping its broader social impact. excited to announce i’m out with a new paper today tracing these relationships!
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beautifully put:. “the purpose of a proof is not to persuade you that a proposition is true, but to concentrate your doubt on your assumptions”.
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unreasonably happy that i got oxford to sign off on this event title.
Our next OII Wednesday webinar on Dec 2 at 1600GMT:. ‘Destroy the Internet Advertising Economy With This One Weird Trick’ with @timhwang & @computermacgyve, co-organised with @meedan.
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defending myself against AGI by inventing a profession with negative returns to intelligence.
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it's actually only a "coup" if it comes from the rébellion region of france, otherwise it's just sparkling treason.
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⬜️⬜️⬜️ in an effort to better understand how symbolic scarcity contributes to divinatory experience, my current tarot deck is just seventy-seven blank cards and one tower
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the gentle art of responding to an e-mail four months after it is received.
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“systems thinking”, once the preferred analytical frame of the tech intelligentsia, is increasingly an out of fashion mental model for the world. in its place - direct, reductionist weltanschauung:. “you can just do things”.the midwit meme.“high agency” mysticism.grand histories.
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💁♂️ some fresh alternatives to “yes, and. ”. “yes, or. ”.“yes, nor. ”.“yes, nand. ”.“yes, xor. ”.
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@NicolaManzini some of the best ones in this genre are definitely temporarily available government slip ups.
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And those “emergent abilities,” are they in the room with us right now?
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kind of sad we decided to call them AI labs and not modeling agencies.
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🎞️ vid of the mind-bending @cogsecconf fireside chat with @contrapoints @danrather @trufelman is now available!. topics: media vs entertainment, the aesthetics of trust, reading (or not reading) comments, ideological purity, fashion advice, and much more.
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my favorite conference call tropes, in order:. 1. “I think you’re on mute.”. 2. “Sorry, I was on mute.”. 3. “Can everyone mute?”. 4. “Who was that who just joined?”. 5. “. OK thanks, everyone.”.
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TIL they used Otto von Bismarck to advertise Budweiser back in the day
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finished my project of reading all the cormac mccarthy novels and it permanently rewired my brain
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are you fucking kidding me.
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job news: . i’m glad to officially announce that i’ll be a research fellow at @CSETGeorgetown this year! . research will focus on the politics of semiconductor supply chains and the social dynamics of the machine learning field
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The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg is out today! Six amazing essays on the visual culture of Zuck:
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ladies and gentlemen - the official @IFP gift guide, 2024. (1) @LockheedMartin smores (via @_brianpotter).
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the biggest flaw of techno-optimism is that it indulges the illusion that technologists are actually the ones in charge when it comes to what ultimately happens to a technology.
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gell-mann hypermnesia: becoming so fixated on the occasional expert error that you become unable to grant any third-party expert any credence.
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🪄 frankly kind of sad that technical books no longer have this aesthetic
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😍 from the great acts of pedagogy dept: . bibliographer d.f. mckenzie used to give students a blank book and force them to guess what kind of book it was to demonstrate the semantic properties embedded purely in the physical construction of a book
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🎲👨💼📈 been thinking about putting together a tabletop wargame called “thinktank tycoon” where players head up research centers competing for funding, press, fellows, and policy influence.
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📖 Depressed Former Internet Optimists: A Field Guide . (1) The Nihilists: “Things were never great, we’re realizing that now.”. (2) The Marxists: “Things were going great until the VCs and money started to get into the space”.
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happy anniversary to the 1993 paper that rediscovered integrals
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policymakers: it’s time for a serious conversation about artificial intelligence and society. also policymakers:.
Nine humanoid robots gathered at the United Nations’ 'AI for Good' conference in Geneva for the world’s first human-robot press conference
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🌴 dreaming about doing a one-day symposium in NYC in the fall focusing on the topic of "tech trees", bringing together game designers, historians of science, and metascience folks. would anyone attend something like that?.
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recently, i’ve been cataloging the various flavors of post-2016 internet optimist depression. here’s a short field guide in @techreview to spotting them in the wild: .
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🗞 news: after a decade in california, i’m moving to new york in december! . let’s hang.
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any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from platitude.
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