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Random note: Congressman Brad Sherman just held up If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies in a Congressional hearing and recommended it, saying (rough transcript, might be slight paraphrase): "they're [the AI companies] not really focused on the issue raised by this book, which I recommend, but the title tells it all, If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies"

I think this is a clear and unambiguous example of the theory of change of the book having at least one success -- being an object that can literally be held and pointed to by someone in power.

Mostly, I just need to decide to spend a block of time writing, instead of doing other work. But aside from that, I have less need of co-writers, and more of a need for audiences that I'm actively writing for and engaging with (who those audiences are will be different for the many things that I have in the backlog).

10Zephaniah Roe10mo

This is such a funny coincidence! I just wrote a post where Claude does research on every member of congress individually. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WLdcvAcoFZv9enR37/what-washington-says-about-agi It was actually inspired by Brad Sherman holding up the book. I just saw this shortform and its funny because this thread roughly corresponds to my own thought process when seeing the original image!

8davekasten10mo

This is awesome! It broadly aligns with my understanding of the situation, although it does miss some folks that are known to care a bunch about this from their public statements. Downloading the JSON to take a deeper look! Strong upvoting the underlying post for Doing The Thing.

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