Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.
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It’s been interesting the last few weeks hearing the parents’ TV or Lyft drivers’ radios saying things that in 2015 would have 100% pegged you as a LessWrong user.
No sentence has ever needed the clarification "(In [a video game].") more than my earlier text today to a few buddies "AI has launched a rocket."
GPT6 Astra playing factorio space age has just gotten to its 3rd planet - miles ahead of what last weeks Fable 5.1 managed, and its looking like it will be able to complete the game in a week.
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I’m speaking at this conference, and look forward to meeting folks interested in navigating the next few years.
Introducing Takeoff, a first-of-its-kind conference on governing ourselves in the age of artificial intelligence.
We’re bringing together a small group of public servants, AI researchers, and other leading voices in Washington, D.C., November 13–15, 2026.
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Complex Systems is off this week due to minor health issues in the family; back next week.
There are many systems in the world where you have a quality distribution, call it normal for simplicity, and you are incentivized to maximize utilization at all points along it.
You should not expect these systems to provide legible, accurate, honest positional rankings.
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