Venkatesh Rao
Person on 4 sites
Venkatesh Rao writes Contraptions, a weekly newsletter that treats the world as a contraption of contraptions.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Contraptions: Weekly newsletter under this name from October 2024 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Earlier names: Breaking Smart newsletter from 2015 to 2019; Ribbonfarm Studio newsletter from 2019 to 2024 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Ribbonfarm: WordPress blog, now retired and archived (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @ribbonfarm (opens x.com)
“Ribbonfarm has been resurrected as a museum blog with an AI curator. Details: https://t.co/InHymQ7kS3 The old reading experience is preserved intact, with significantly improved speed and cleaner reading layout, but…”
- Newsletter: Contraptions (opens contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
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x.com: @ribbonfarm (opens x.com)
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21 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Human control over AI is a capability constraint rather than a free safety property, and the two trade off against each other. (opens korrents.com)
“Human control is not a free safety property. It is a capability constraint, and beyond some point the two trade directly against each other.”
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Autonomous machines place greater demands on their human operators than non-autonomous machines do. (opens korrents.com)
“Autonomous machines are more demanding of their operator than non-autonomous machines.”
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Legal personhood is an institutional technology, not a status granted for possessing a soul. (opens korrents.com)
“Legal personhood is not a prize awarded for possessing a soul. It is an institutional technology.”
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Human control over AI is a capability constraint rather than a free safety property, and the two trade off against each other. (opens korrents.com)
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28 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Finite and Infinite Games (opens rcmnd.app)
“James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games”
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Antifragile (opens rcmnd.app)
“Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile”
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Land of Promise (opens rcmnd.app)
“Michael Lind, Land of Promise”
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Finite and Infinite Games (opens rcmnd.app)