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Rob Wiblin
@robertwiblin
Host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: 80000hours.org/podcast/
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    Rob Wiblin
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    Oct 2, 2025
    Convention wisdom is that bioweapons are humanity's greatest weakness – 100x cheaper to make than to defend against. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom is likely wrong. He has a plan cheap enough to do without government. Useful even in worst case scenarios like
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    Rob Wiblin
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    Aug 7
    Ten most upvoted comments on this FT story: 1. "Post Covid surely this should be the highest regulated activity anyone on the planet can undertake." 2. "Literally what could possibly go wrong?" 3. "Great, have these scientists never watched a movie?" 4. "Casually mentioning
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    Rob Wiblin
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    Aug 6
    I've been off Twitter because I was sick and then had a second kid. But I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.
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    Rob Wiblin
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    Aug 6
    I see 7 actual updates relevant to AGI timelines this year: 1. Exploding revenue and GPU rental $ 2. METR time horizons saturate 3. The Mythos 'jump' 4. Sparks of RSI 5. AI still sucks at business 6. AI makes some math breakthroughs 7. Inference scaling remains cheap I wanted
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    Rob Wiblin
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    Aug 6
    I see 7 actual updates relevant to AGI timelines this year: 1. Exploding revenue and GPU rental $ 2. METR time horizons saturate 3. The Mythos 'jump' 4. Sparks of RSI 5. AI still sucks at business 6. AI makes some math breakthroughs 7. Inference scaling remains cheap I wanted
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