HeyJaredRuxandra's Substack
Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.
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Education as an AI safety area (opens the original)
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Much has happened in the AI world in the last weeks. This week alone, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, dismissed the idea that advanced AI could escape human control as a “hoax”; the prospect that “robots will be marching into our cities and getting rid of us all” was laughable. There is an eerie feeling for those of us who are online, seeing an official White House account post memes about Effective Altruism. In contrast, the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had, days earlier, called
Curing cancer won’t redeem AI (opens the original)
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“Death is not the worst of all evils.” (General John Stark)A few weeks ago, a poll result began circulating on X: Americans now appear to be more hostile to the construction of data centers than to the construction of nuclear power plants. This is striking because for decades, the nuclear reactor has been the archetypal object of anti-abundance politics.<div
Intelligence is not the main bottleneck (opens the original)
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Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying everyone or even a majority of people in the SF tech scene think this way. But some certainly do (e.g. the opening conversation is verbatim) and this post is about a particular core scene whose views carry disproportionate weight in the discourse and in policymaking.At a recent dinner, someone from an AI lab asked me, quite bluntly , why I do what I do — why I write about the regulatory bottlenecks to medical progress, why I spend my time on policies related to
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