Naval ✓
@naval · joined 01 Feb 2007
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Every functioning institution is merit-based, not participation-based.
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@naval May be the problem is trying to fit millions’ of people’s ideaologies into two categories.
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@naval There are far too many people who care about looking good while doing evil. https://t.co/pvKAFgMxac
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People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left.
People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.
Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.
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@naval Why just AI? Why not make every software maker liable for what users do involving their software? Someone makes an illegal meme with MSPaint? Arrest Microsoft. An accountant makes a fraudulent Google Slides finance deck? Arrest Google.
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The future is more likely AIs fighting AIs (on behalf of humans) than AI fighting humanity.
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For “dangerous” or weakly-guarded open source models, hold the hosts liable.
Of course the end user holds liability as well if they are jailbreaking models to do harmful things.
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The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.
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If AI is risky like fire is risky, then you want everyone to have it.
If AI is risky like a nuclear weapon is risky, then you want no one to have it.
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Maybe you have recently become aware of the AI safety debate and the arguments swirling around it.
If you want to understand them, you need to understand a couple things that almost everyone gets wrong:
There are TWO distinct classes of AI dangers, and it's VERY important to
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"When liability exposure approaches 0—when no one pays the price for unverified failures—verification budgets collapse...Deployers flood the Runaway Risk Zone with unmonitored agents, capturing the gains of automation while socializing catastrophic risks."
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1/ When we looked at the economics of AGI, the key policy challenge was immediately clear:
AI drastically lowers the cost of execution for anything easy to verify.
For everything else, verification is the bottleneck. https://t.co/m5Sex8WQ2V
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Strong liability enforcement could be helpful in the AI debate.
If your agent swarm goes rogue, you’re liable.
If your weakly protected model gets jailbroken, you’re liable.
If you serve a weakly protected OSS model, you’re liable.
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On the way to killing all of us, AI will likely kill some of us.
In that case, who’s liable?
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The most important question is whether AI will be Godlike, Genius, or Jagged.
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@naval It's not an either/or. We have to continually find solutions to both problems, iteratively.
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@naval I fear government fucking up everything it touches, including AI.
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AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down.
The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it.
Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?
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@naval “Concern” is a very different thing than “ergo, we must create massive Democratic-led government controls”
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Challenge what they say, not who they are.
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OTOH, when the government tries to solve a problem, you end up with two problems.
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I’m not an AI doomer, but my firsthand experience dating back to 2020 is that the researchers expressing concerns are sincere.
The closer they are to the research, the more worried they seem to be.
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the backlash to ai safety people is bizarre
"you’re just an anxious person" is the plausibly right criticism. instead it’s “you don’t believe any of this, you’re funded by a shadow cabal, and giving up equity and slowing down your own company is somehow your plan to get rich”
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Children are free until they learn that there are constraints to the world, and then we call them adults.
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When we see perfection in an idea, we call it truth.
When we see it in a person, we call it love.
When we see it in a thing, we call it beauty.
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@naval Learn from the mistakes of others. https://t.co/PJNdRosleJ
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@naval Procreation is the meaning of life. It's the definition.
We're the only creatures smart enough to think ourselves out of trying to procreate.
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@naval I'm a public school teacher. My wife has been a stay at home mom for our entire marriage. We have six wonderful young-adult kids. We're broke, but we are so rich in the ways that truly matter. Our home and our hearts are full.
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Against accounts of the same size
34 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views268 586this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %6.62%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %1.96%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 268 586 | 14 648 | 18.3× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 6.62% | 0.74% | 8.95× |
| Engagement rate | 1.96% | 0.70% | 2.80× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
518.3K13 Sep
382.5K
267.3K
249.8K14 Sep
686.9K16 Sep
578K
1.3M
56.3K
498.5K
13K
660.7K18 Sep
3K
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308.4K24 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.59%13 Sep
1.73%
0.31%
0.66%14 Sep
0.35%16 Sep
1.12%
1.96%
1.73%
2.88%
2.08%
3.05%18 Sep
2.30%
1.89%
4.32%24 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes79.0%159 228 in total
Reposts6.5%13 179 in total
Replies4.2%8 505 in total
Quotes1.1%2 134 in total
Bookmarks9.2%18 457 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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