Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton. @arstechnica alum. Subscribe to my AI newsletter! understandingai.org Washington, DC Joined March 2008

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Tom Lee @tjl

2 days ago

having a quadcopter carry explosives and shrapnel toward me, guided by a mind that may not be smarter than me but makes no mistakes and never gets bored or tired: that also sounds bad none of that stuff requires superintelligence though

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Tom Lee @tjl

2 days ago

really good stuff from @binarybits understandingai.org/p/the-case-for… the further we get along in these debates the more grating I find the comic book reasoning about what superintelligence could do within the constraints of the natural world

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Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

2 days ago

The classiest presidency. (And this is after I closed a popup ad for nicotine pouches.)

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Dylan Doherty @DylanCDoherty

2 days ago

Interesting intersection of AI research and my work on historical contingency. If the history of complex systems is indeed contingent, even a superduper AI will not have complete mastery over it.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

3 days ago

Interesting intersection of AI research and my work on historical contingency. If the history of complex systems is indeed contingent, even a superduper AI will not have complete mastery over it.

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Steve Newman @snewmanpv

3 days ago

I lost a friend to a drunk driver. My wife and children nearly had a head-on collision after being rear-ended by a texting teenager. New data strongly suggests: if the cars involved had been Waymos, none of this would have happened. Road safety is a personal issue for me.…