Jim Miraflor

枯れた技術の水平思考

[Jim Miraflor @futilityfunc]

CICERO + GPT-4 + KAIROS + AlphaStar ≈ Skynet

[Jim Miraflor @futilityfunc]

Reason why Leni should run as VP instead. Impeachment or not, a Duterte will run in 2028. And who will be Vice? Only Imee to eke out votes in the North.

This: Leni has already beaten a Marcos. She did it once; she can do it again.

Let Risa fight a Sara; Leni can defeat an Imee.

[Jim Miraflor @futilityfunc]

Hindi naging VP si Leni kung hindi naging Pangulo si PNoy, at di nangyari yun kung di lumaban ang mga kagaya ni Sen. Risa kay Arroyo at Villar. Sana matandaan ng nga kakampink yan.

[Abhishek🌱 @Abhishekcur]

This article is literally wow.

i read it 2 years ago, and coming back to it today, it still feels new.

few tutorials teach computers in a way that permanently changes how you think. this is one of them.

If you've never built a VM before, you're missing one of the biggest "aha" moments in computer science.

[Emad @EMostaque]

If Claude is good enough for Nobel Prize winners it is good enough for you

https://t.co/P5pM4MGSqQ

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.

The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.

Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.

Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

This book is extremely good. Robert C Allen is a serious economic historian and examines one of the great "what ifs" in history, the 1920s-30s transformation of the USSR against plausible counterfactuals. Examines everything from living standards to demographics. V much recommend

[Jim Miraflor @futilityfunc]

Pushing Leni is looking backward; fine if all we want to do is to buy time vs. barbarism. But Risa, that's moving forward. #RisaNa

[Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex]

🚗🔋 Many think Beijing masterfully planned China's EV takeover. Fengming Lu (@ANUBellSchool ) and I spent 3 years and 60+ interviews finding out what actually happened in our latest article @TheChinaJournal. A thread 🧵

[Zihan "Zenus" Wang @wzenus]

Time for this meme again :)

[Michael Timothy Bennett @MiTiBennett]

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[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.

The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.

This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.

The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/Kt50ttQRMJ

[Jim Miraflor @futilityfunc]

Let's continue Sec. Jesse's legacy. Mayor Leni Robredo should be DILG Secretary under a President Risa Hontiveros administration.

[Cesar Chavez @CesarChavezP29]

What does actually means Bad Controls?

Link: https://t.co/zrfRYZk52C

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."

40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.

"The superiority of socialism is clear."

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

A video for those interested.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

John von Neumann’s letter of recommendation for Alan Turing for a Procter Fellowship at Princeton for the year 1937-38, ca. June, 1937.

📷 Princeton University

[Bartosz Naskręcki @nasqret]

People will realize soon that fields that were pretty far from theoretical mathematics will benefit greatly from the formal methods. Once mathematical methods and formalization will become stably verifiable, mathematics will become a powerful language of scientific verification. A new job of mathematical engineering on the rise.