James Booth @JamesFBooth
political analysis + campaign analytics Washington, DC Joined August 2010-
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@mattyglesias Yes for sure and my sheep overestimate was heavily biased by my Aus/New Zealand preoccupation
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@dylanmatt its possible the method is circular in my case but i will take it
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batten the hatches and study alignment. if you are the type of person who is capable of doing alignment research, don’t get bullied into some sort of stunt. the world needs you and global coordination in the timeframe that matters is far from guaranteed
This is obviously something to take seriously, I can attest that @robertwiblin has been taking this seriously since at least 2010, and the vibe shift in the discourse seems important and overdue
If you've been too nervous to say you're worried about AI extinction risk - this is the moment to come out and say so loudly. The preference cascade is huge and ongoing. Throw your weight on it. Unless you're in a very weird place (e.g. Trump admin or humanities department) the
@rcobooth used it in my head tracking progress on something like 3 hours ago
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We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must-p…
@otis_reid @EmilyOehlsen of all the "someone should really build something on this" topics!
Exciting:
Nearly every day toward the end of my tenure at The Washington Post, someone would complain to me about Jeff Bezos' changes. His decimation of the local news team. His abandonment of DC sports coverage. The shriveled Bezos opinion page, with the ideological diversity of a
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News! @coeff_giving is significantly accelerating our global health and wellbeing giving in 2026-27! Increasing our @GiveWell support to $1B was the first step. Today we're taking another: Launchpad Funds, an RFP to seed new funds to take on big, underfunded problems in GHW. 🧵
@NatPurser so consider trying a couple to get the right energy is my takeaway
@NatPurser by contrast there is a place i will not name in tenleytown that has a...different + less energizing vibe, everyone is on the older side and so ill have a really bad day but get a shout out for being fastest in the class and it's against like the local crew of retired ladies
@Rob_Flaherty These are the hacked Germans? Or is this the swam or rogue AI agents?
@davidshor @itaisher @thuddwhirr I think this is a fair W and both are extremely important but we do need to account for the misses too, otherwise we risk doing "correctly predicting 9 of the last 2 recessions" scorecard
@mattyglesias i would simply make the buildings pretty google.com/search?sca_esv…
@patdennis OK but PSA, I read this research then went too far the other way (foot down, three drinks at a beer garden on a hot day with my teammates) and I would NOT recommend that
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Election Day is just two months away. We’re going to keep fighting every day until November.
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