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Dean W. Ball @deanwball

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Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 53m

One of the Martin Gurri observations that most stuck with me is the idea that, as the health and capacity of public institutions withers, political leaders will speak more and more like bystanders rather than drivers of events, and that this shift will largely reflect reality.

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roon @tszzl · 3h
Replying to @pizzacritic999 and @_NathanCalvin
honestly it's kind of amazing how feckless and weak modern governments are. they literally can't do anything. their state capacity is exceeded by random nonprofit groups and ... [cut off]
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Quote-tweet by Dean W. Ball citing Martin Gurri on political leaders speaking like bystanders as state capacity declines, quoting a roon reply about feckless, low-capacity modern governments.

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Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford

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Peter Wildeford... [verified] @peterwilde... · 18h
"METR probably has more capacity to measure and evaluate frontier models than the entire US civilian government. I can't speak about the intelligence community. But the state capacity, we don't really have enough to forecast AI capabilities, build safeguards."

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MTS [verified] @MTSlive · Aug 26
IAPS @sevdeawesome says METR has more capacity to evaluate frontier AI models than the entire US civilian government:

"Low regret things are just increasing visibility. ...

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Quote-tweet by Peter Wildeford of an MTS clip in which IAPS visiting fellow Severin Field says METR has more capacity to evaluate frontier models than the entire US civilian government. The video thumbnail shows two podcast hosts in headphones.

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