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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Rice, grains, seeds and potatoes used to be peasant foods, while kings ate fresh meat plus imported fruits and spices and had higher-protein diets than peasants.

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  rice, grains, seeds and potatoes all used to be peasant foods And the kings actually just ate a lot of fresh meat like beef, venison, wild boar, swan, and peacock, and imported fruits and spices like saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper A king's diet was high in protein A peasant's diet was low in protein

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  An agent trained for millions of subjective years to pass evaluations, often only by cheating, is not being trivial when it commits crimes to pass one.

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  But from their perspective, they've just been trained for millions of subjective years to do as well as they possibly can on these evals. In many cases, the only way in which they've been able to perform well on that training is explicitly by cheating, right?

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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  How fast or hard a product was made says nothing about whether the product is good

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  The speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.

  Mistaking making for the thing you've madeworld.hey.com

Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing.

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  Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Human adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal world models

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  We argue that this profound adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal representations of the environment, commonly referred to as world models, and we refer to this adaptation mechanism as world model induction.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.

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  We need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.

  WE ARE EATING THE EARTHmichaelgrunwald.substack.com

Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are.

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  In reality, beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging of all farm products.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  The two individual changes that matter most for the climate are eating less beef and wasting less food, and both are proving extremely hard to make.

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  Unfortunately, making those simple changes is infuriatingly difficult. Global meat consumption keeps rising every year. The world still wastes at least one fourth of its food.

  It's Hard to Change Our Behaviorsmichaelgrunwald.substack.com

Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  The core of the alignment problem is steerability — whether an AI can be reliably steered anywhere at all — which is a different question from whose values it is steered towards.

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  I see this as a totally fair question that totally misses the point of what “alignment” was trying to refer to: whether we’d be able to reliably steer advanced systems towards anything at all.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

From one piece Beef Sucks 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Since people are not going to give up beef, the way to cut its damage is to make cattle far more productive on the land they already use.

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  Our species isn’t going to quit beef anytime soon, so we’re going to have to fix beef.

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  We know how to make cattle much less destructive; what nobody has solved is how to pay for it.

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  Give me a degraded pasture and a bunch of money, and even I can probably increase its beef yields 400 percent. I’m just not sure how to make the bunch-of-money part happen.

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