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Alex Petropoulos 🤠

@AlexTPet

Increasing Europe's Agency in the AGI transition. Director of Strategy @arqfoundation 🇬🇷🇬🇧 he/him

Brussels, Belgium Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Alex Petropoulos 🤠@AlexTPet·
Today is my first day as Director of Strategy for @arqfoundation. My co-founders and I worry that Europe is not on track to maintain its agency in the AGI transition. However, we are optimistic that this is a solvable problem! How? Via Access, Bottlenecks and Resilience..
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Aaron Bergman 🔍
Aaron Bergman 🔍@AaronBergman18·
Wtf I don’t wanna be too flippant because I know it’s a substantial or even prohibitive cost for some people but you can just do things (buy and install a <$200 window AC unit)
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion

Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR. But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.

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Aaron Bergman 🔍
Aaron Bergman 🔍@AaronBergman18·
@mattyglesias RIP, I think I unironically endorse civil disobedience about this (although cheap/easy for me to say) What happens if you just vibe-install one? Are you gonna go to prison?
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Alex Petropoulos 🤠@AlexTPet·
@Pablomorecasa @lugaricano agree, I'm confused on whether open pre-frontier would work. the economic might become as painful as trying to compete on the frontier just on a two-year delay. i am quite bottleneck-pilled though, which makes automated companies unlikely on priors
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Pablo Moreno 🔸 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@Pablomorecasa·
@AlexTPet @lugaricano Separately, it is non-obvious to me that Coasean dynamics won't kill a strategy based on diffusing AI in the economy. Model providers could build mostly automated companies if they achieve sufficient capabilities.
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Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano·
I write today in Silicon Continent with Jesús Saa-Requejo "Three Theses on AI Value Capture". We argue that the leading AI labs are betting hundreds of billions on the idea that holds the best model captures the value. We think that's the wrong bet. The model layer is squeezed between customers who can switch with a simple change in configuration and suppliers who are each monopolists. Our hypothesis is that the surplus flows past the labs, to chips above and implementation below. Hence the country that wins AI is not the one with the tokens on the frontier model. It's the one that is best able to implement the technology. siliconcontinent.com/p/three-theses…
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Alex Petropoulos 🤠@AlexTPet·
@robertwiblin yes, but Ant making a profit is more of a sign that in hindsight they should have been pursuing a more aggressive growth strategy
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Rob Wiblin
Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin·
"ai companies will never turn a profit", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and become totally irrelevant
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Alex Petropoulos 🤠@AlexTPet·
@Pablomorecasa @lugaricano I would agree with Anton that access to the frontier will still matter one some things that the open pre-frontier won't be able to compete on. Things like R&D, military capabilities.
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Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano·
@AlexTPet Thanks Alex. Agreed, more GPT-5 than GPT-5.5, so eight months behind rather than six. But our argument only needs a tier or two back, good enough to keep the labs from rationing or implicitly colluding on price.
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Judith Dada
Judith Dada@DadaJudith·
Won investor of the year at the German Startup Awards. Called for drastically more compute & commitment to AI - @bundeskanzler. Thanks for this award @StartupVerband. Lots of work to do. PS: missed official award photo bc I was deep in AI discussion land 😅
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Andrew Gerard
Andrew Gerard@andrewmgerard·
Every country should get their own IFP. Big countries like India should get one for each state.
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Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)

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Freddie Poser
Freddie Poser@freddie_poser·
This was a fascinating piece to work on. This chart tells you all you need to know about why saying YES to data centres in the UK is vital.
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David Lawrence@dc_lawrence

What is the climate impact of data centres? The answer depends on where you are. In a new report, @freddieposer & I find that Britain is one of the greenest places in the world to build data centres. Why is this? Because the UK has made greater strides towards decarbonising the grid than the vast majority of advanced economies. This matters, because global data centre demand is highly mobile and inelastic. If a data centre isn't built here, it is likely to be built in Germany, the US or Ireland – which would all counterfactually produce more emissions.

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Alex Petropoulos 🤠@AlexTPet·
himbomaxxing to prepare for the AI transition
Julia Willemyns@jujulemons

I largely don't believe in much of what the policy world talks about when "skills" are invoked, but – putting my skepticism aside – I've been wondering what a "skills policy" for this world would look like. If what becomes scarce is the relational element (the human element in a good), then the market will naturally shift its incentives, and being "lovable" will become very economically valuable. This does not mean we will have a single hierarchy. Preferences are varied. Luxury goods mean different things in SF, London, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi. You can rank highly somewhere without ranking highly anywhere else. Every subculture (no matter how lame) has its own groupies. You might actually think we're already seeing glimpses of this in the creator economy. Is @Clavicular0 a symptom of the revenge of the jocks? The revenge of the nerd-cum-jock? People are upset at the new Euphoria season (haven't watched, tbf) – but isn't it a heightened, basically accurate picture of exactly this? You might despair at this world. Yet every social order trains people toward some set of traits. The market has rewarded numeracy and social skills. Even the anti-market crowd has to grant that the law already trains us toward a certain temperament. Every order trains us to be a someone, and every order benefits some someones over others. Would a new system that incentivises likability, authenticity, "aura" be all that bad? And how would it interact with our concept of meritocracy? Anyway, I can't wait to see what the state-sponsored retraining programme on how to perfect the "cool girl aesthetic" looks like.

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