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Software and policy (remotely) in The Swamp at @JoinFAI
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Ex Senate Staffer - SBC
Former Fellow @congressfellows
@TheStalwart Enjoyable if not as engrossing as the why Asia works book. Did appreciate learning more a lot about places I haven’t read very much about before. Case studies for better or worse for not being clear cut success stories
People Have no idea how apocalyptic Qing China in the 19th century was, Female infanticide skyrocketed leading to extreme imbalances, Life expectancies declined by a decade, per capita food consumption plummeted and GDP per capita declined. Taiping was a giant malthusian check.
@veidt_comrade Bold to make a variety of assumptions! And blocked! Because it’s clear you are some zero sum NIMBY. I grew up in the westchester suburbs. They had practically not grown in 30 years! It’s causing many problems
@keccers I liked one tweet about a hack that happened in crypto and my feed got flooded with it until I had to mark things as not interested. Not a good system!
No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail.
@IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping.
Signatories include:
- Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI
- Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic
- David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient
- Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe
- Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
- Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient
- Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience
- Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
- Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response
- Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI
- Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI
- Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army
Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: https://t.co/BwZiJXw3JT
Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so.
Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats.
@deanwball put it well in the WSJ:
“If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”
@alt1na1 Assuming you have one of those auto-feeder machines a cat can be maintained much more simply then a dog. And I say this as someone who grew up with dogs. They have a much higher floor for minimum taking care of
I'm biased because I met my husband and one of my bridesmaids through Twitter but publicly posting like this is just mean and petty and doesn’t reflect well on you. You can simply ignore the message!!
don’t think I’ve ever seen this level of mainstream success from an academic historian: there’s now a children’s illustrated edition of the silk roads by peter frankopan https://t.co/GN7XyCU06K
Honestly a really cruel, and ignorant statement to make. Also incorrect usage of the "two cultures" argument from CP Snow in that the humanities people are also at fault with this problem as well
Hanover is a pre-lapsarian type place where people can lose their wallets for days and they will be untouched. But then again Dartmouth is a unusual place all things considered
i feel sad about living in a low trust society. japan, taiwan, and korea are all places where you can leave your laptop and wallet on an outdoor table at a cafe and go to the bathroom and not think twice. there’s virtually no violent crime, no trash on the ground (despite the lack of public trash cans!), nobody behaving erratically on the metros or sidewalks.
it’s relaxing to exist in a society like this. you can walk around with your phone hanging out of your backpack pocket and not think about it. you can wander around random parts of huge cities late at night and not worry about turning down the wrong street. everyone is courteous and sane.
i think this is, above all, a cultural artifact. i don’t know what it would take to change the culture in the US to resemble this but i desperately wish we could move in that direction.