Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖

@Brendan_McCord

The academy for philosopher-builders (cosmos-institute.org). A law unto myself, just like you.

Austin, TX

blog.cosmos-institute.org

Joined March 2009

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Aug 18
We are witnessing an unprecedented shift of independent minds into the frontier AI labs. One by one, individuals whose work is about freedom or collective intelligence or the preservation of human autonomy are being hired by the organizations that many believe pose the greatest
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Today was the Austin STEM Center's grand opening!🚀 Congrats @pwang on your incredible vision to bring another generation of nerd-dom to Austin and the world The robot competitions took me back to my MIT days
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Aug 21
The children yearn for high standards
Carl Hendrick
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Aug 21
Nothing patronises kids more than the deluded idea that the only way they can understand the classics is through the lowest end of their own culture. As Dan Willingham once put it, memory is the residue of thought, and the child who has to sit through Bare Expectations has
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Aug 21
We must "transform alignment from a psychological problem of internal model disposition into a constitutional problem of institutional design"🔥 It's been ~250 years since classical liberal political philosophy has been this relevant @sebkrier @cosmos_inst
Cosmos Institute
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Aug 21
"Computer scientists are rediscovering a lot of political science and economics from first principles, but luckily they get to skip the bloody revolutions." Cosmos Senior Research Fellow @sebkrier on alignment as a problem of institutional design. blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/of-swarms-an…
Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖
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Aug 19
Letter from Hannah Arendt to James Baldwin
Luke Burgis
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Aug 19
What is the relationship between justice and mercy?