Base-model Montana farm kid somehow now working on AI and data infra in The Swamp.™ Opinions my own.
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Michael Pipolo retweeted
I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the sankey diagram from Aella's birthday gangbang
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Michael Pipolo retweeted
On bottlenecks: 1) economists have been exactly right about little extra growth despite very fast tech change. They thought a group of econs I organized were crazy >2 yrs ago at the AI labs when we said "1pp extra growth/yr through 2030". 2) bottlenecks *still* not understood 1/8
Michael Pipolo retweeted
Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install.
You don't have access, well funny thing...
Michael Pipolo retweeted
Anglicized Native American names are by far the best place names in the US. If we're going to go around randomly renaming things we should be switching to those.
Consider how much better Manhattan is as a name than New York, or how much better Kentucky is than West Virginia.
Michael Pipolo retweeted
I think AI will be a transformative technology like the internet by which I mean it will buy us another 2-3 decades of 2.5% GDP growth.
Michael Pipolo retweeted
I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry. (But probably not here.)
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Michael Pipolo retweeted
The absolute evil genius of the safety team at Anthropic. You want to stop open the Chinese government from releasing open weight models? You could ask nicely. Or you could whisper the words “abliterated GLM 5.3” where the public security community can hear it.
Michael Pipolo retweeted
Okay, so saying Superintelligence and 'Super Intelligence' now both mean the AI in question is smarter than you, but for different reasons.
Michael Pipolo retweeted
Announcing Sparrow Infrastructure.
AI will define this century, but there's a physical and cultural gap between policymakers and people building the technology. We're going to fix that.
Come to The Overhang, our first conference. It's about forecasting and futurism in DC on Sep 19-20. theoverhang.ai
More tomorrow.
Michael Pipolo retweeted
If we ever have an AI risk color scale like the terrorism threat level, we gotta call the highest threat color "rouge."
Michael Pipolo retweeted
Building software by prompting agents without ever reading or editing the code directly isn't actually a new thing. It's just called being an engineering *manager*. We have decades of experience about how to be effective as engineering managers. It is a different skill, though.
