Packy McCormick
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Not Boring
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Consider the Lobster
An exploration of the annual Maine Lobster Festival, its history, cultural significance, and the strange paradox of lobster being considered a high-class delicacy despite its lowly origins.
columbia.eduMaster Plan
In short, PARPA's master plan is:
In short, PARPA's master plan is:
- Create and stress-test unintuitive research programs in a systematic (and therefore repeatable) way.
- Use that credibility to run a handful of research programs and produce results that wouldn't happen otherwise.
- Use that credibility to run more research programs and help them "graduate" to effective
Shifting the imposible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual
Collision Course
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Fundraising for deep tech — Celine Halioua
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More subtly, it could result in a superintelligence realizing a state of affairs that we might now judge as desirable but which in fact turns out to be a false utopia, in which things essential to human flourishing have been irreversibly lost.