Christopher David LaRoche

Stanton fellow @CarnegieEndow, assistant prof @CEU @Bard. Security institutions w/ seasonings of nukes, psych, risky tech & accidents.

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My latest in @ForeignPolicy: the AI race's competitive logic may be doing to AI safety what it did to the dissenting nuclear scientists: showing them the door, paying lip service to their concerns, and building bigger anyway.

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Regulating AI may be an even greater challenge than regulating nuclear weapons. https://t.co/x2omouN8TE

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@ForeignPolicy Usually I'm thinking about AI in terms of catastrophic risk — but not always! My latest in @ForeignPolicy on how, in the absence of strong federal or international regimes, state-level AI governance is filling the gap.

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Oh my

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@polanskydj Or is it Weapons of the Weak? Hard to say

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@alexpriou I intermix them each Sunday, pull one tome randomly off the shelf, flip to the middle, read a bit, and then think ‘ah, Francis Bacon, you scoundrel’

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@leonardbenardo1 truly a n=1 scenario

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@leonardbenardo1 No! Keep them coming!

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@Athens_Stranger @realbriankemple My hot and possibly unpopular take here is if your footnote turns into a lengthy discussion, put it in a separate doc and turn it into an article. (I am guilty, too guilty, of the opposite).

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@pegobry_en Tocqueville had entered the chat.

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@mattyglesias @JerusalemDemsas I lent this book to my dad and he couldn't get far into it, likely for similar reasons.

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@alexpriou Can't wait.

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@booksoftitans I do this in my office

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8:48 a.m. L train

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@JaycelAdkins Not "atheist" but see Ernest Fortin's work, and any secondary Monarchia.

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@alexpriou (All this is to say you’re right to wonder if a framework that keeps science at salutary remove from the city except through nonpolitical relief and magic making - and thus defends it against the city - is at all possible on modern or any premises)

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@alexpriou Bacon's idea of the scientific mediator org is in some ways an aristocratic solve of this problem (hide the scientific production itself and make its substantive public content visibly humanitarian — or defensive — and thus furthest from political questions about public law)

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@alexpriou One way to square this circle (apart from DARPA-type orgs) is a scientific gatekeeper — i.e., org that doles out grants and gives rewards. (I would say Bacon is more concerned about science's public authority than production specifics, though the two are interlinked).

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@Athens_Stranger (Yes, though I wonder if engine is the right metaphor given thumos is reactive.)

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@BallerThanThou @Athens_Stranger Joke