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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.me

You could reduce investment in this industry by two orders of magnitude — assassinate 200 leading researchers to prevent any further technical advances — and we would really *still* be quite capable of updating models to reflect new languages and recent events.

aug 23, 2025, 5:37 pm • 6 0

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com

I firmly believe "brilliant researcher" is more a social niche than some sort of phenotype

aug 23, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.me

Yes, very fair. Other people would just have to be prom- ... and on second thought I favor those assassinations.

aug 23, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com

😁

aug 23, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view