Toby Ord
Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
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- Dim Red Dot Scientists have just released a photo featuring a dim red dot. It is the light of a single star exploding in a galaxy so far far away that that nothing we do could ever affect it — even in the very fullness of time. It lies beyond the Affectable Universe. Let me explain… 1/🧵
- Whether or not we will ever be able to travel to other stars, we can usually affect them (and they can affect us) through the light we each emit. Shine a torch into the night sky and you will personally affect galaxies billions of light years away. But not in this case. 2/
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- Reposted by Toby OrdIt has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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- The other evening I attended the launch of David Edmonds' book on Peter Singer's Shallow Pond. I was quite struck when he called it 'the most influential thought experiment in the history of moral philosophy' yet with no influence for its first 30 years… 🧵 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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- Evidence Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling 🧵 Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling … 1/14 www.tobyord.com/writing/most...
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- An insightful piece by Deena Mousa about how AI performs extremely well at benchmarks for reading medical scans, yet isn't putting radiologists out of work. Lots to learn for other knowledge-work professions here. www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...
