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Arram
@arram
I make beautiful things. Art, Meditation, Writing, Angel Investing Personal site: https://t.co/pdxEHdr6Ip Substack: https://t.co/QPLJSCt5uo
NYC Katılım Mayıs 2008
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@LaurenzRod @JohnHCochrane Bro is about to stop belonging to the smartest species on the planet for the first time in 500 million years and he thinks it’s like going from PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3.
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@arram @JohnHCochrane Do you know what else was unprecedented?
Every single thing ever done that wasn't precedented.
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You must be kidding. AI might have big effects. It could have risks. So “policymakers,” must "act now,” before they have any idea what they’re doing, to "build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society?” Boy I’m glad no self-appointed “policy maker” decided to “steer” the development of the steam engine. The ones who “steered” nuclear power destroyed it. Preemptive dirigisme is killing tech in Europe. If said “policy makers” could do something about the dumpster fires of US social programs, building restrictions, appalling costs of public infrastructure, broken tax code, failing schools, maybe I’d think about "calling" to unleash them on some vague AI crusade. (Previous essay on this here grumpy-economist.com/p/ai-society-a…)
Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn
Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards. 3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
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@financedystop What happens when you mistake a positional good for a utility.
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Upper-middle-class families are in a weird dead zone with college.
They make too much to qualify for meaningful financial aid, but not enough to casually write $100,000 checks every year without it completely changing their life.
So the kid looks rich on paper, gets little help, and the parents are expected to absorb the cost of a house down payment every single year.
College pricing has also obviously become absurd.
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Founder of DeepMind:
“Nobody in the world knows for sure what is going to happen from here, and even the experts disagree. When there is a large degree of uncertainty and the stakes are this high, proceeding with cautious optimism is the sensible and correct strategy.”
Demis Hassabis@demishassabis
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@amphichrome_ I love guilloché. I’ve been thinking it would make a fun retirement hobby. Not a ton of craftsmen for it left in the US unfortunately.
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Needing to time your tweets to get engagement is dumb and kind of a drag.
@nikitabier any plans to work on this?
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@justindross You're underselling it by a galactic mile IMO, and funding some economics work is less than the least we should do. But I guess we'll find out.
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Or, "Economists sign demand for additional funding grants to study hypothetical future issue with zero to minimal current evidence in the economic data"
Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn
Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards. 3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
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Small electronic shop in Akihabara’s electronics market
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Tweaked a back muscle just now, and it tells me, sharply: you probably didn’t realize, but I contribute to, and can therefore aggravate, almost 60% of your whole-body movements. Neat, I say in return. Real neat.
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Honestly thought I'm not sure I ever saw the wind fish myself. My best friend told me about it.
Reminds me of the first game we had for our family PC: Return to Zork. I never got past the first stage. Apparently the 'solution' was to offer the lighthouse keeper a drink eight times. The first seven he'd say the exact same thing, the eighth he'd fall over drunk and you could pass him.
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@arram The Switch remake is very fun! Also makes you realise how game design conventions have changed over time, I swear the solution to some of those puzzles was just “ask another kid at school”
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Opportunity here for a licensing deal with Nintendo.
clankr@clankrmedia
Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.
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