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Kevin Schawinski

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🇪🇺🚨 BREAKING: EU Ministers have unanimously adopted the EU hashtag #AIAct at today's Council meeting. The Act will now be published in the official journal of the European Union, starting the clock for compliance.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

First #ChatGPT answer which made me pause.

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I have so many questions

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

The @FTC is investigating @OpenAI and the document outlining their questions is fascinating. 🧵Some highlights:

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This is what we are losing.

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. @Number10cat is a top choice for the job.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@chkarlo Why stop at ads? Go full Turkmenbashi an rename the month of November after your mom

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7 years

@chkarlo we are in the control simulation where the players get to use the whacky cheat codes

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

This is explicitly in contravention of the EU Digital Markets Act. @EU_Commission @ThierryBreton

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7 years

@chkarlo Base all driving tests only on "The Art of the Deal"

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@chkarlo for those going down this tweet chain — I didn’t make any of these up. Google Turkmenbashi.

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

How exactly were models trained and on what data

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

The European Union has just agreed on a Compromise Text for its EU AI Act. The EU AI Act will set the global standard for how AI systems must be built. Think of it as the GDPR for AI. I'm going through the text to highlight important changes... 🧵 1/n

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 months

🇨🇭Hopping on the "make it more" trend for ChatGPT, I asked it to make an image encapsulating Switzerland and the kept asking it to make it "more swiss" Initial image

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@chkarlo three words: Desert Ice Palace

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@emollick Do we know if the test answers were in the training data?

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Kevin Schawinski

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4 years

Gaul, 58 BCE. 👀

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump What, all of it?

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

Oh my god, Swiss #chemistry #nobelprize winner Jacques Dubochet’s CV is amazing!

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7 years

Best twitter exchange of the week, easily.

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

. @Kasparov63 : “I hope AI will kill enough financial industry jobs so kids will go back to wanting to be space engineers.” #AMLD2019

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@andriyanov101 Interesting!

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

Notre Dame is over 800 years old. It has survived the Hundred Years War, the Revolution, two World Wars. Heartbreaking.

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

OpenAI surely won’t be the only company getting such a letter.

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Kevin Schawinski

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3 years

Accurate

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Kevin Schawinski

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4 years

Few books have made me see the world in a completely different light as @StephanieKelton ’s “The Deficit Myth” has. Highly recommended!

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

How do you deal with your LLMs making up stuff about people

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11 months

What are the risk and safety procedures

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@samharrisorg there is some irony in @jordanbpeterson redefining “truth” in a way laden with ideology — something he criticizes in others.

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Kevin Schawinski

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4 years

This one is my favorite. Which one is yours?

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

Link to full document via @washingtonpost

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Kevin Schawinski

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9 months

@nearcyan It’s the incarnation of

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

Going directly to the cap table and revenue model

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 month

Polar lights over Zurich.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@tunguz How can I visualize XGboost hyper parameters with it?

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

Keynes famously said that: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." I am increasingly convinced this is also true for the market of ideas.

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

How do you deal with personal data?

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Kevin Schawinski

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6 years

Xfinity War is the movie where Thanos’ internet keeps going down, and he deletes half the Comcast board from existence. The audience cheers him on.

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

@Popehat is this week's podcast just a series of sighs as @jbarro lists what People have Done in the Last Few Days?

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3 years

Now that's what I call long baseline data! Source: @Datagraver

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11 months

Is prompt injection a problem?

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4 years

@paulg Also, from experience, “leaving the U.S. for good and moving home” is not an acceptable reason to cancel according to them.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@ProfMike_M @realDonaldTrump he doesn't know how

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Kevin Schawinski

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3 years

Do not underestimate this trend.

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Many founders aren’t hiring from Harvard. They’re hiring from Twitter.

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

So is @AndrewYangVFA gonna meme himself to the presidency?

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1 year

@AndrewYNg Good regulation to make AI more trustworthy to people.

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8 years

Well played, Google

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8 years

@internetofshit a $1400 smart iron with bluetooth

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4 years

That's an incredible chart.

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@tracyalloway @jonathanmaze For those who don't know, Domino's and Google had their IPOs within a few days of each other back in 2004. And the stocks have performed virtually identical since then.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 months

Moooorrreeee Swisssss!!

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

2016 is not only evidence that we live in a computer simulation, but that the designer’s cat walked all over the keyboard.

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9 years

Awwww! First baby giant tortoise in Galapagos in 150 years. http://t.co/lZSWpjTOGL http://t.co/EGx7ParIsM

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Kevin Schawinski

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11 months

Students, if your professor only codes in Fortran, your degree will be worthless.

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Astronomy, circa 2023 🫠

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2 months

@TheStalwart You made me click, Joe. That’s 10 seconds I’ll never get back. 😔

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

My year in review: * quit academia * started company That’s it.

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Kevin Schawinski

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6 years

@SamHarrisOrg @splcenter @MaajidNawaz Are you suing?

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Kevin Schawinski

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4 years

@clairlemon Misallocation of capital means people have to accept huge losses. That tends to take time. See the huge deleveraging after 2008 Disruption of supply leads to short term disruption. If the supply disruption ends, demand can return or even surge to fill in what was missed.

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Kevin Schawinski

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29 days

@Dan_Jeffries1 This is most likely the right analysis. It’s laundry buddy from here on out…..

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

In the future, malicious people will wear gloves with fake extra fingers so that the photographic evidence of their crime can be dismissed.

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The hand strikes again🖖: these photos allegedly shot at a French protest rally yesterday look almost real - if it weren't for the officer's six-fingered glove #disinformation #AI

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Kevin Schawinski

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2 years

@tunguz Models are mostly just a reflection of the data. If your model performance isn't good enough, go fix the data.

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Kevin Schawinski

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MORE SWISS

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6 years

@primalpoly @nntaleb Look, the aliens living near the Milky Way supermassive black hole are kind of hard to reach....

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1 year

@JosephPolitano Did… did this guy want to start a modern East India Company? 😳

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5 years

Feed serendipity cc @benjaminwittes @jbarro

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@jordanbpeterson @samharrisorg how can we know that this is in fact true? Do I need to survive until then to find out?

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4 years

Teamed up with mitochondria.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

Very honored to be awarded the European Astronomical Society’s MERAC Prize

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 months

Ok, make it more Swiss

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

Science funding agency: Please review this proposal. Me: would be happy to, this is in my area of expertise. My consulting rate is X/hour. SFA: pay you? Don’t you know we are a prestigious SFA? Thousands of scientists work for us for freeeee. Do your part. Me: my rate is X/hour.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@SamHarrisOrg @ScottAdamsSays Adams is flailin all over the place. "It's 4D chess all the way down" is not a coherent analysis.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@MrJamesMcMath @edwest For a while, British Airways allowed me to travel as the Grand Admiral of the Dutch Navy.

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

I just had a quick look at the #YangGang memes, and they are outstanding.

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Kevin Schawinski

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6 years

First day as startup CEO: so far, so good. ✅

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Kevin Schawinski

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@SteveOnSpeed Luck

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

. @NCaplar & co analyze gender bias in astrophysics papers. Fascinating read:

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Kevin Schawinski

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6 years

So long, academia, and thanks for all the fish...

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@samharrisorg @jordanbpeterson FWIW, I voted “yes”. The conversation may yet reach an interesting space.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

Guys… @FlatUniverseSoc

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@tunguz Asking the real $ question.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@marthastewart @thestalwart What an evergreen tweet. It will outlive her. Like Ed Balls Day.

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

This whole #Turkey situation is eerily similar to when the Jedi tried to arrest Palpatine, only for it to backfire…

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

Annex VIII Section B: Builders of Foundation Models are going to have to disclose details about how these models were trained. Going to be interesting to see what happens when the EU forces OpenAI/Google/Anthropic etc to open the hood... 3/n

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

@samharrisorg Myspace.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@AndrewYNg The #EUAIAct will be a game changer.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@TemplinEdu Thank you Marc. I’m sure all responses to this video will be reasonable and polite.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

The new Article 68c adds a right to explanation for decisions from high risk AI systems. This means all AI systems need to have interpretability built in as a fundamental component. 2/n

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

The dangers of commenting outside your area of expertise, Exhibit A:

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If there were ever a species for whom sex hurt, it surely went extinct long ago.

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Kevin Schawinski

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10 years

I am also experimenting on my postdocs to test the limits of caffeine tolerance in humans. #1tweetresearch

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

Ah, Switzerland, the land of $17 garlic bread

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@Altimor Have you tried “Pretend you are Scottish” as a prompt?

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@ScottAdamsSays @SamHarrisOrg Self-parody is a valid form of humor.

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Kevin Schawinski

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8 years

I am never, ever getting into a GM car again. HT @LeoBurtscher

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

@chkarlo let’s take a look, maybe there are some interesting people to follow there. cc @illbucsfan

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

@Noahpinion Whenever wealth taxes come up, one should point out that Switzerland, that socialist hellhole, has one.

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Kevin Schawinski

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1 year

@AlbertPol10 Tell them your hourly consulting rate and see if they’re still interested.

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

Remarkable perspective.

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Kevin Schawinski

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3 years

Trees. Lots and lots of trees. DM me for bank details.

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Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology

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Kevin Schawinski

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6 years

@beccalew @datasociety @joerogan is a gateway to the far right? The only thing Rogan is a gateway to is weed and BJJ. Possibly isolation tanks.

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Kevin Schawinski

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4 months

I'm sure there are people who have thought about the impact of AI on the justice system. If any image, audio or video recording can be created by AI in such a way that it can't be reliably told apart from the real thing, how do we handle such evidence in court?

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Kevin Schawinski

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5 years

@ESYudkowsky The Bay Area keeps giving us the weirdest dystopias.

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Kevin Schawinski

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7 years

Strong contender for the most Swiss news story of the week

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