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Ramez Naam
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Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.
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    Ramez Naam
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    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.
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    Ramez Naam
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    Aug 7
    We're not supply limited on political lies and distortions. We're saturated. If anything, in the near term I see AI as a mild positive in debunking nonsense.
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    Ramez Naam
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    Aug 7
    Alex is one of the top cyber security professionals in the country. You ought to listen to him. I'm excerpting the part that I see as particularly self-owning for the US and the labs, but his whole article is packed with nuance and detail. It's worth reading and acting on.
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    Alex Stamos
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    Aug 5
    This summer has been pivotal for cybersecurity and AI, but we are stuck on talking points from April. Here is an attempt to move past the Fable debacle and find a way to compete with China, protect individuals and companies, and allow for innovation. alexstamos.com/p/moving-forwa…
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    Ramez Naam
    @ramez
    Aug 7
    Tim's a perceptive observer of AI. And I agree with him here. Overally , my concern about AI hyperpersuasian, political manipulation, deepfakes, and so on have all declined over the last 12 months. AI, if anything, seems to be bolstering truth. Why is this? 1. We're already
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    Timothy B. Lee
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    Aug 6
    A significant update for me over the last 2-3 years has been to downgrade the dangers of deepfakes to public discourse. In 2023 I thought deepfake video, images, and audio would have a big impact on elections and such but so far the impact seems quite modest.
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    Ramez Naam
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    Aug 6
    The notion that "The Singularity" is ahead of us is truly bizarre and a massive dilution of the term. "The Singularity" is an event horizon we cannot look past. We have plenty of ways to model the behavior of super-intelligent entities (though most such efforts are quite shallow