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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

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• A Modest Proposal

  The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implic…

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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

• The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it

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• Proposal: rename "software factories" to "outcome machines"
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• alfred-emoji-pack — PHP Script to generate Snippets for Alfred with all available Emojis.

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Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.

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Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.

• emojis — Haskell library for emojis

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• unicodey.com — Unicode tools

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• emoji-list-generator — An AI-powered CLI that turns plain bullet lists into emoji-prefixed markdown lists and copies the result to your clipboard.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Denmark desperately needs more inequality

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• Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.

• maduraievenet — This is a NextJS starter in Firebase Studio.

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• Emoji Kitchen is the best thing Google has ever made.

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• Dialogue with Dean Ball on his Private Governance Proposal

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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• temp_primary_constructors — Temporary repo for trying out a proposed Dart language feature

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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

• A proposal for importing society’s values

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