Dave Fowler @__dave

Independent Researcher I made charts @ Chartio now Atlassian Analytics Author of https://t.co/IkiFeMraW8 and The Informed Company thingsilearned.com San Francisco, CA Joined April 2008

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Geoffrey Miller @primalpoly

3 weeks ago

The most important thing for conservatives to understand about the AI industry: Not a single person building Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) -- not one -- has ever offered a plausible scenario in which humanity, in anything close to its current form, could last for even two…

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Dave Fowler @__dave

a month ago

Tourism chain idea: Shoevenirs - they’re tripped themed shoes that people can walk all around in and then mount in a collection at home… I’ve got the domain. Contact me for licensing :)

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Dave Fowler @__dave

3 months ago

Excited to finally be in on one @patmatthews's funds. He's by for the most active value add investor I've come across!

Pat Matthews @patmatthews

3 months ago

Excited to finally be in on one @patmatthews's funds. He's by for the most active value add investor I've come across!

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Dave Fowler @__dave

3 months ago

Huge crowd at @weights_biases fully connected conference! Awesome to see!

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John Sherman @ForHumanityPod

3 months ago

So how is it possible for this issue to have 70% public support and zero political champions??? Who will be the brave first few heroes, American elected leaders, willing to say the obvious: if we don’t slow down, AI is likely going to kill us all. And here’s how we find a…

PauseAI ⏸ @PauseAI

3 months ago

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Harlan Stewart @HumanHarlan

3 months ago

It is difficult to make the world understand the danger posed by ASI. Much of that difficulty is because of human psychology, but some of the difficulty is manufactured by the AI industry, which uses Tobacco industry playbook tactics to prevent interference

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Dave Fowler @__dave

3 months ago

I published a helper tool for cleanly making complex prompts github.com/davefowler/llm…

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Dave Fowler @__dave

5 months ago

I hate so many things about slack, but their required install process to simply "add a new helper tool" is unacceptable. It requires you to put in your password multiple times (perhaps for multiple tools?), and will not let you cancel. Enraging

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Dave Fowler @__dave

6 months ago

A riddle: What is safe and incredibly powerful yet no one can control it?

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Dave Fowler @__dave

6 months ago

Containment requires foresight into possible escapes. But when the prisoner is smarter than the jailer, foresight collapses — the gap in intelligence is by definition unknown unknowns.

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Dave Fowler @__dave

6 months ago

I've had this document started and mostly empty mulling in the back of my mind for over a decade. With the pace of things I figured I needed to get it out. Today I published my letter to a future Superintelligence thingsilearned.com/things/letter-…. .

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Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio

6 months ago

Very relevant piece by @kevinroose in @nytimes, 3 points that particularly resonate with me: 1⃣ AGI's arrival raises major economic, political and technological questions to which we currently have no answers. 2⃣ If we're in denial (or simply not paying attention), we could…

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Max Winga @maxwinga

8 months ago

We all have an obligation to society to communicate the reality of the situation to them. Stop it with vague schizoposting, stop downplaying what you really believe. Warn people that if this goes wrong, they're dead. Their children are dead. Humanity is done for.