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Keeping my account around on here, will still check in mostly because YIMBY-posting on this cursed platform is still needed, but this time we do actually have the critical mass to move to The Other Place. @andrew.donnellan.id.au
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Jun 13
this is obviously true and I don't know why I'm seeing so many takes focusing on the export issue
Jun 13
Lots of people are viewing the Fable shutdown as an export control/sovereignty issue.
I think it's much bigger than that.
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frontier AI research is an easier problem than reforming the Town and Country Planning Act
Kinda crazy that there's one place that does the best jailbreaks of AI models and that place is the UK government 🇬🇧
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Jun 13
my read of things is that this question is irrelevant as the intent is obviously to achieve complete shutdown, for everyone American or not - the law may not provide a specific power for doing that, but using export control is good enough to achieve the outcome
Jun 13
“Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models would be subject to export controls to any location outside of the U.S. and to all foreign persons within the country”
uh. i would like to know how they will go about distinguishing foreign nationals in the US from american citizens.
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Incredible innovations in airline ticketing are happening in New Zealand
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one of my favourite videos of all time is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge's helpful guide on how to drive to Macau, a super easy process that only involves taking out multiple insurance policies
Jun 9
Every response:
“It’s super easy! Just take the MTR to Lo Wu station and walk to the crossing guard, get a 10 day transit visa (be sure to get there at 6:30 AM with passport photos) back through Macau (not a journo visa), and use an eSIM to get a VPN to set up AliPay in HK…”
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The Canberra Hospital, Woden Westfield, and the R4...
Jun 8
Here is how suburban development planning makes good public transit impossible. Two must-serve destinations, a hospital and a Walmart shopping center, but there is no way to draw a reasonably straight bus route serving both. 1/
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The R6, otoh, is not exactly a route you'd want to use to get to the hospital if you were coming from Civic
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if Argentina proceeds with "non-human corporations", other governments should deprive Argentine corporations of legal personhood in their domestic law
Jun 8
We must not grant AI agents legal personhood ft.trib.al/BnEez25
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given that Rob used to live in the same part of the world as me, I choose to believe the federal government he is referring to is of the Albanese rather than Trump kind
Andrew Barr gotta get on to setting up the Digital Canberra Directorate's Frontier AI Regulation Group
Jun 7
The big challenge for AI regulation is:
1. prohibiting absurdly reckless practices
2. without concentrating power in gov officials who can abuse it to entrench themselves forever.
And the solution is obvious: prohibit federal regulation of AI and do it at the state level.
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"if you observe suspicious model behaviour that could pose a catastrophic risk, please call Access Canberra on 13 22 81"
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though I do wonder to what degree state/territory governments will ultimately be involved in regulating anything outside of their own government deployments - there does seem to be an assumption that this is the Commonwealth's job
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I will think lesser of you as a person if you ever send me an email this way
Jun 5
Draft it. Tweak it. Send it.
You can now send emails directly from writing blocks in ChatGPT on the web, without leaving the conversation.
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It will be hard to top this as the thing I am least worried about as a consequence of AI
this is actually incredibly bad i think? not a fan of spacex, but it will likely keep openai and anthropic out of index funds during what will very plausibly be there most aggressive period of appreciation. this means many normal americans with 401ks will be left behind.
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When I become Chief Minister, we're introducing the more-than-century-old Channel Islands tradition of the Visite du Branchange, and so many multi-millionaire homeowners in my suburb will be paying for it
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Andrew Donnellan retweeted
Jun 4
In a wonderful piece of Tasmanian bureaucracy I today used my WWVP card as ID so I could pay for a personal information card that I will need as ID to renew my free WWVP card. Turtles all the way down. #politas
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the average NZ indie bookshop is unreasonably interesting for a country so small
idk about arts and culture in general but I think our literary output pretty clearly lags that of other young, smallish anglosphere places like Canada, NZ, and anglo South Africa if you make the appropriate adjustments for population size
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in the event that the US does something like this, at some point in the future, what does the rest of the world do?
Jun 2
I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.
This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.
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Jun 1
I do find something compelling about this argument but if the entire *world's* output was scraped to build LLMs and this comes with some obligations they are clearly not only to Americans
Jun 1
An extremely effective argument from Bernie in favor of his proposal for public ownership of the AI companies
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