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November 10, 2025

Data center USA, NeurIPS pronouns, on being a new logo, the ball

Unintuitive things about impact philanthropy.

Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?

wsj profile (a) on the data center buildout in a small town (Umatilla, Oregon).

OpenAI wants the federal government to backstop its new investments.

Sam Altman: “I think there will come a time when AI can be a much better CEO of OpenAI than me – and I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.”

Holden Karnofsky interviewed on 80,000 Hours: “If you haven’t tried [to get a job in AI safety]… that’s insane. You should at least take a look.”

NeurIPS pronouns.

”In the near term, we argue that attackers are likely to benefit more than defenders from frontier AI.”

On the new Google Maps logo:

in an animism driven universe do you think a logo that cost 23 million dollars and six hundred and ninety human hours of meetings to minorly alter feels immense hubris or crippling despair

The parable of the unjust steward (what does it mean?!?)

Lewis Bollard on the protein problem (we like eating protein; most of our protein comes factory farming).

The Consciousness Foundation announces a request for proposals.

Ben Goldhaber is on the ball.


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