American Optimist

@AmOptimistShow

Official Account of @JTLonsdale's American Optimist podcast 🎙📺 NEW EPISODES: youtube.com/c/americanopti…

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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Aug 24
EPISODE 161: The Robotics GPT-3 Moment @JTLonsdale sits down with @peteflorence Pete and @GeneralistAI are changing everything we know about robotics: -- robots trained on new tasks in seconds (seconds!) -- self-taught ambidexterity & other breakthroughs -- 10X more science
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
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🚨NEW @JTLonsdale with @JesseBWatters on what's really behind the AI doomerism: "They've given up Christianity in most of San Francisco... if you give up religion, you want some kind of messianic complex, some kind of big thing to believe in. These effective altruists — this
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
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"It's like Oppenheimer when he had this hubristic awe of his own creation... People get mad at me for saying this, but this is actually the way that a lot of these folks think about it: even a tiny probability of doom multiplied by negative infinity utils equals negative
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Josh Caplan
@joshdcaplan
Sep 14
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.@DavidSacks says if Dario Amodei truly believes frontier AI could end humanity, he has no business running Anthropic. Make it safe, shut the lab down, or step aside.
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Sep 14
Marc Andreessen on Roko’s basilisk: even if you think AI will be a rogue killer, you still want to be on record saying it’ll be positive 😂
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Watcher.Guru
@WatcherGuru
Sep 14
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is "pretending to be a perfect little angel" for wanting to slow down AI development.
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Sep 11
🚨NEW: Our adversaries secretly funded the anti-fracking & anti-nuclear movements. Now @JTLonsdale asks: Who's funding the outrage about Flock? And of all the surveillance cameras, why is the outrage only directed at the ones arresting criminals and illegal aliens? Joe
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Sep 10
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🚨NEW: Joe Lonsdale unloads on data center myths at RNC midterm debate. @JTLonsdale: Are you willing to admit the water thing is fake about data centers? Almonds use 1.5 trillion gallons a year. Data centers is 22 billion. Golf uses 25 times as much water. There's just fake
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