Economist @McGillU, working to understand what subjective well-being can teach us about society, communities & sustainability. Former physicist. Climate hawk.
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Jun 12
This gets my vote. I've experienced plenty of anxiousness over the last two years around what lies in the months and years to come. Amodei is calling for the right stuff.
As he says, it's not really enough, but these are recommendations that are feasible to work on now.
Jun 10
Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…
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Jun 12
"AI-driven biomedical progress may also improve mental health, which could have a stabilizing effect on society."
Yaaay! SOMA !!
darioamodei.com/post/policy-…
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Added two days to my trip to the @CanEconomics meeting, to visit the suburban alpine:
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WTF is going on with @ClaudeAI Opus 4.8 today!?
You want me to tell all agents in the future "Don't use git add -A"??
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Hey @McGillU students:
@ihsp_mcgill Impact Internship Program is accepting applications for Fall 2026
See the "Communications and knowledge synthesis for the Canadian Wellbeing Knowledges Network" (cwkn.ca) project at
mcgill.ca/equity-ethics-poli…
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Yikes. This essay from @Anthropic, out today, has almost the same tone and thread as ai2027.com:
anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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C Barrington-Leigh retweeted
🤔Thinking of submitting a chapter proposal for World Happiness Report 2027?
World Happiness Report offers a unique chance for wellbeing experts to come together over an important topic each year.
Don’t just take our word for it, swipe to hear from previous authors.👇
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ALT Graphic titled “Considering submitting a chapter proposal for WHR 2027?”. Users are encouraged to swipe to hear from previous authors.
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C Barrington-Leigh retweeted
We are seeking global examples of how public expenditure can best promote the happiness of the people, for World Happiness Report 2027.
📃 Please submit your proposal by Sunday 31 May for the opportunity to write your own chapter in the report.
ow.ly/O7qm50Z06XJ
ALT Photo of Westminster, with the heading 'Happiness and Public Policy'. The. subtitle reads 'World Happiness Report 2027'.
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May 18
Wellbeing researchers and policy analysts:
This is an enormous platform, with extraordinarily high production and editing support. If you think you can contribute, submit your proposal this month.
🧑⚖️ World Happiness Report 2027 will investigate the existing and potential impact of public policy on happiness.
Read more and submit your chapter proposal 👉 mailchi.mp/worldhappiness.re…
Subscribe 👉 worldhappiness.report/subscr…
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I'm having an "It-feels-like-it's-2025" day with Claude Code.
😟😠☹️😡😡😡
In the future they'll be able to turn us all into a mess of raging lunatics just by messing a bit, disobeying a bit, lying a bit.
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Note to self: Do *not* go and re-read AI2027.com to see whether we're still on its predicted schedule.
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Apr 24
Wow, I just levelled up. "ClaudeCode: please write yourself a skill for email control via my maildir folder." It installed himalaya (full email suite, maildir interface) and mu (maildir indexer), set up a cron job for mu, wrote its skill. All with --dangerously-skip-permissions
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Apr 24
Within a few seconds, I noticed a test message draft showing up in my Alpine! ...
What a world, what a time.
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C Barrington-Leigh retweeted
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Me and Claude working together
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Apr 12
Artemis II astronauts speak publicly for first time since successful moon mission:
youtu.be/HacpRDfCbnw
Robots do the best space science. Science is not why we send people briefly away from our island.
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Did you know that Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng has a podcast??
Here's their most recent episode (not the first!) on happiness: share.transistor.fm/s/8050e7…
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Registration now open (or join our waitlist): one-day conference in Montreal on bringing the science of wellbeing to the forefront of policy making in Canada.
Join us on 12 May 2026!
wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca…
#happiness #qualityoflife #cdnpoli
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Inscriptions ouvertes (ou rejoignez notre liste d'attente) : conférence d'une journée à Montréal sur l'intégration de la science du bien-être dans les politiques publiques au Canada.
Rejoignez-nous ! 12 mai 2026
wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca…
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