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Arthur B.

@ArthurB

@Tezos co-founder w/ wife @breitwoman & Agitprop founder. Aligning ASI to not zap everyone is unsolved, that's bad. Tezos stuff, high context humor & more.

arthurb.tez Katılım Mart 2008
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@SamuelAlbanie You're absolutely right, I got started on a fix without really understanding the problem, and now the codebase has drifted a lot from where it originally was.
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Samuel Albanie 🇬🇧@SamuelAlbanie·
"the person who thinks they understand the problem and does not is usually more of a curse than the person who knows they do not understand the problem" hamming
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@SamuelAlbanie That's a common question, the less obvious one that he raises: "what is consciousness for?". We evolved to be conscious, it means consciousness serves a purpose... but if something can do what we do without being conscious, then what purpose would consciousness serve?
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Samuel Albanie 🇬🇧@SamuelAlbanie·
understand the pushback, but liked this question posed by dawkins in his piece “if these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?” worth pondering what evidence would meet that bar imo
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@JohnCleese It would be crass to bring up her early life if she earned her qualifications later. It's included here for completeness to show that *at no point* did she ever earn the qualifications for this job.
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
There are three parts to the @RichardDawkins post. The first where he mistakenly asserts that the Turing test said anything about consciousness, the second where he seems oblivious that he's being glazed — that's the most embarrassing bit people are reacting to — and a third part which is genuinely well formulated and interesting. I think most people probably didn't read past the headline, let alone the second part.
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@SamuelAlbanie There is a shameful phone snatching problem, but not one that would warrant ducking into a doorway every time you want to check your phone. They go after people who are distracted, close to the curb, when there isn't a large group of people around.
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Samuel Albanie 🇬🇧@SamuelAlbanie·
love london, but confused by the "we haz no phone snatching problem here" vibe in the replies we do haz problem imo particularly sad when it happens to visitors (it's happened to several of my friends while visiting) who get a terrible impression of an otherwise glorious city
Paul Graham@paulg

Stockholm is remarkably walkable. At one point we were walking somewhere and we needed to check a map. It was such a relief not to have to think about the phone being stolen. In London we always duck into a doorway before checking a phone on the street.

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Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen@typesfast·
We should probably fix this. What are the best ideas?
sourcery@sourceryy

.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt": "People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union." "We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short." "If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits." "There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever." "And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it." "No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." " This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." At the @HillValleyForum 2026

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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
We can do farming at much higher density than is currently done. We don't because using a bunch of land is relatively cheaper. I think there's a important role for nuclear to play (fwiw I've spearheaded the launch of a spot market for U3O8) but land use isn't the most compelling reason.
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Metafrost
Metafrost@metafrost·
@ArthurB @Andercot What's your point? If we could do farming at nuclear power density, we should do that as well.
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Andrew Côté
Andrew Côté@Andercot·
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to go nuclear.
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Object Zero@Object_Zero_

This 100MW data center in UAE is the largest solar powered datacenter in the world. There are currently 1,300 data centers in the world that are bigger than this one, but this one is the largest solar powered one. That’s 10 square kilometres of solar panels you can see. The datacenter itself is 0.02 square kilometres, so a solar powered datacenter is ~500x larger than a data center using any other form of power. A five hundred times larger site. UAE has some of the highest solar irradiance anywhere on Earth, it is an inhospitable desert. Averaging 9.7 hours of sunlight per day with average irradiance above 2,200 kWh/m^2. If you build this somewhere else, you need more solar panels because your irradiance will almost certainly be lower. Even if the world had an infinite supply of free solar panels, solar power will not be free. Anyone who has ever done major capital projects, who looks at where data centers need to be in the next 5 years and the next 10 years… we know it aint solar. Sorry. You struggle to even build a train track that’s 100 miles long and 10ft wide anywhere in the West, there is zero chance of build 100 square mile solar farms for GW compute. This is why people are talking about space compute. Deploying into space is one strategy to solve the constraints. But there are faster and more scalable strategies, that get you to mass deployment of multi GW data centers. There are strategies that also allow you to power the 10 billion robots and their newtonian actuators, that immediately follow the inference demand cycle. Step back and look at the full cycle of this industrial revolution… There will be billions of chips, but there will be trillions of actuators. This biggest part of this revolution is the embodiment cycle, and it’s big by a factor of 20 or 50x over the stuff that comes before it. There is no analogy in human history for the scale of this economy, of the demand it will place on energy and commodities. The humans own the Earth, and if you exist inside their legal system, they won’t let you turn the surface of their planet into glass. But they do want your chips and your actuators to serve their needs and desires. There is a way to do all of this, and so it will happen.

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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
French phonics are pretty regular. There are a bunch of diphthongs, but they are regular; the consonants at the end of words are generally silent, but that's also pretty regular. It's not difficult with a few rules to sound out French words based on how they're written, though it's harder to write them based on how they sound. The same can't be said for English.
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A. K.@GurReptsSohn·
@ArthurB Bruh, I'm not an expert or anything, but isn't French even worse?
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
If Ingglish spehling had bin standeurdighzd afteur dheu sownd sisteum had sehddeuld, az Wehlsh spehling lahrjlee wuhz, wee wud prahbeublee hav ehndid uhp widh keunsisteunt roolz maping lehddeur-groops teu fohneemz. Instehd, Ingglish prizurvz eu myoozeeeum uhv histawrikeul aksideunts: Nohrmeun Frehnch, Latin, Greek, dheu Grayt Voweul Shift, ehddimeulahjikeul spehlingz, and haf-finisht rifawrmz. Dheu rizuhlt iz wuhn uhv dheu leest transpareunt mayjeurr alfeubehddik righdding sisteumz awn urth. Eu nahntrivieul fraksheun uhv chighldhud liddeurreusee instruhksheun iz spehnt lurning ahrbitrehree ehksehpsheunz radheur dheun reeding and righdding. Yoo may naht lighk it, buht dhis iz wuht peek Ingglish wud luk lighk.
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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@CridlandF1 @mbateman Nah that's not what silhouette means in French or in English, the sentence is nonsense. Bumping on extraordinary is a bigger indictment but "silhouette" voids the whole thing.
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Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@maxtempers What's depressing is the implication that they largely recognized it's obviously a horrible policy but couldn't let the voters they were getting rid of it.
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max tempers@maxtempers·
It's actually wonderful reading how this happened from the fallout afterwards. A rare example of "you can just do things" in action in a modern Western democracy. - No coalition partner campaigned on the changes beforehand - No public consultation - No impact assessment - Rushed through in 24 hours under urgency - Quashed all pending claims - The government engaged in “organised subterfuge” - "Officials who knew the changes were imminent continued to negotiate in bad faith with parties involved in the 33 pay claims in order to keep the policy under wraps, so it could be presented as a fait accompli" - Saved NZ$13bn. For context, this is nearly half the annual NZ health budget and double the defence budget. So even though the left opposed it, it's very difficult to undo without earmarking a giant amount of money.
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max tempers@maxtempers

In 2025, facing dozens of claims and projected costs exceeding NZ$10bn, the govt passed emergency legislation tightening the equal pay regime. They raised the threshold for bringing claims, narrowed acceptable comparators, and most importantly, discontinued unresolved claims.

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Arthur B.
Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@ControlAI 50-100M deaths is what they hang their _hope_ on.
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ControlAI
ControlAI@ControlAI·
Legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones says he met researchers at the top AI companies at a conference and asked them how AI safety gets resolved. "Pretty much the consensus answer is, I think we'll finally do something about it when 50 or 100 million people die in an accident."
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Arthur B.@ArthurB·
@michaelmalice Don't let his appearance fool you, he's much dumber than he looks.
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