Zac Hill

Head of Advocacy, Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Former serial social/civic entrepreneur. Blogs a lot. Professional Wizard in a previous life.

[Zac Hill @zdch]

Finally got my beautiful mug up on the website, so might as well make it Twitter-official: I'm beyond stoked to have joined MIRI last month as Head of Advocacy, with much subsequent mischief forthcoming. Let's do this AI thing, like, safely, and stuff.

https://t.co/trlho0RSzh

[Zac Hill @zdch]

My "know just enough math to be dangerous and/or dumb" take of the day.

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@MackenZ_arnold I have always been worried about just like basic Godel encoding within CoT or elsewhere. Like fundamentally we just shouldn't believe we can parse every layer of semantic meaning within a symbol string, forever, simultaneously.

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@MackenZ_arnold Exactly

[Zac Hill @zdch]

This is awesome and we should do this.

[POLITICO @politico]

Mike Johnson supports measures to restrict U.S chip sales to China https://t.co/5ZwTbvUzXY

[Zac Hill @zdch]

It's underrated how big of a deal this is — how revealing, and how damning in retrospect.

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

This is the piece I wrote last year arguing NVIDIA was working to help China win the AI race.

Their GA team reached out within hours before coming to my office to scold and challenge me to present the serial number of a single smuggled chip.

https://t.co/aUQmrF1Los

[Zac Hill @zdch]

This is hard for me to understand even though I realize I might be wrong. If the issue is capability expanding past a certain point P, why does showcasing that it costs more money (rather than it costs *too much* money, i.e. an amount that isn't available) to make progress towards P invalidate the idea that we might cross threshold P?

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@GregFinberg It is so wild - this was one of the only things we were actively good at last year, and had if anything TOO much depth!

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@hamandcheese Someone plz vibe code cuckoo clock account

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@zck Antici

Pation

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@hamandcheese No joke, zero lie, didn’t know who he was and assumed Chinese bot until you QTd

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@tomieinlove Hard next level disagree, supported by life satisfaction generally rising as people age

[Zac Hill @zdch]

The posting-to-policy-to-more-posting pipeline.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had an Affair With a Chinese Spy, by @TheZvi https://t.co/xxfJzWvDC8

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@NatPurser Right; agree (feature)

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@MariGO2thepolls Because kids are poor ;)

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@KelseyTuoc “Seems Legit” <neckbeard meme with red scribbles scrawled all over it>

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@mattyglesias The Scarlet Letter But Inverted of moral anointment

[Zac Hill @zdch]

Absolute hard yes to this. People need to incorporate path-dependencies into their epistemics, recognizing that decisions are the moral ground: the adjacency of any two truth-claims is related to the valence of the decisions rendered in the situations where either claim is the case over done period T, irrespective of the superficial distinctions or differences in our impressions of the claims.

[Zac Hill @zdch]

One weird trick to a more effective democracy is to stop trying to find one weird trick that circumvents the democratic process.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

The best way to stop projects you don’t like is to win elections.

The worst way is placing a massive procedural drag on ALL projects.

[Zac Hill @zdch]

@ramez This is the key IMO. Everybody thinks METR does good work but at a certain point there is just way too low a juice/squeeze ratio to infer much.