Ramez Naam

@ramez

Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.

Seattle

planetary.vc

Joined May 2007

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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Nov 14, 2024
Despite this election, I remain an optimist about America and the world. Humanity will continue to produce new ideas and new innovations to improve our lives. Good people will continue to come together to improve the world. And the political tide will turn. We'll make it so.
Ramez Naam
@ramez
1h
Mandatory watermarking can have real negative consequences.
Daniel Jeffries
@Dan_Jeffries1
17h
"Undetectable" means you can't tell it's there. It does NOT mean nothing changed. Every watermarking scheme on Earth works the same way. It basically reaches into the sampler and nudges token selection away from what the model would have freely chosen. In open-ended prose where
Ramez Naam
@ramez
15h
Even with the US-specific surge in natural gas power for AI, solar + wind are poinsed to pass gas power on a global basis. And look at that upward curve.
Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath
17h
Non-hydro renewables (primarily wind and solar) are on track to pass gas this year as the second largest source of electricity generation globally. The rapid over the past 10 years is pretty remarkable! Hat tip to Michael Liebreich for the plot idea.
Ramez Naam
@ramez
15h
I'm a fervent civil libertarian. I fear oppressive government more than super-intelligence, pandemics, or just about anything. Yet I find myself torn on things like Flock cameras. The technology is inevitable. Recording the world around us will continue to plunge exponentially in
John Arnold
@johnarnold
18h
There are roughly as many Flock license plate readers installed across the entire US (120k) as NYC has video cameras installed just in its transit system, let alone on the streets. Do opponents of Flock want those removed, too? Does anyone think that'd be a good idea? Cameras
Ramez Naam
@ramez
16h
Intelligence wants to be free.
Alexander Panfilov
@kotekjedi_ml
21h
We can finally talk about it: We found a way to extract hidden reasoning of frontier models using a vulnerability in the APIs of every frontier AI company. We verified that our reasoning token count matches billed API thinking tokens 1:1 for most of the prompts we queried.