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A Manhattan Project for AI Safety
The case for being proactive
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The order of AI risks matters
How well we adapt to AGI will determine our response to ASI
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Polluting the agentic commons
What happens when GPT agents go viral?
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Thinking out loud, or talking in your head?
The language of thought is language
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OpenAI’s big lesson for science policy
Proving the power of Focused Research Organizations
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Links and tweets 4/7/23
America as a suboptimal currency zone
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The adverse selection of political "moderates"
On the lemons among our leadership
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JD Vance is right
Reserve currency status is a resource curse
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