Tim Hwang
@timhwang
high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare / editor: @defensecharts
jack dorsey's flickr page is still up and it's this incredible time capsule from 2006/2007
We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment.
We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment.
Over the past month, in writing a section of my book, I've become absolutely fascinated by the fact that for hundreds of years after the Black Death, the government imposed wage caps! Here are the caps for London in 1655:
Would be fun if programming and knowledge increasingly began to resemble playing Starcraft. Can already see it happening with people commanding armies of Claude Code agents.
Insane seeing the @Hbomberguy style “rapid cut talking right into the camera for an aside comment” from YouTube make its way into the visual language of mainstream political communication
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Men will literally build a data center the size of Manhattan instead of finally reading the scaling law literature.
That's.... MASSIVE CAN YOU FEEL THE ACCELERATION
on a rewatch it is very clear that terminator 2 judgment day is fundamentally a road trip movie
develop a trusted group of people who are smart enough to argue against you effectively. this is one of the functions of “the boys”.
A musical equivalent to @skdh's consulting service for auto-didact physicists (ht @jacobcollier ) (Well, not exactly equivalent: this is the counter-party)
pop mart shot down my idea for trump admin labubu - here they are anyways
having now thought about an issue for a few hours, i'm pleased to announce that once again the ingroup is entirely correct and honest, and the outgroup is wrong and unserious.
If you care about ASI, one of the most pressing areas of research is understanding the tastes, foibles, and incentives of Howard Lutnick The man will make decisions in the next 24 mos that will have colossal impacts on the course of AI, but his psychology is rarely in discussion
Low-footprint passive sensors, even if just for cueing, could make a difference for a lot of missile defense engagement scenarios.
On Monday, @tomkarako and @masao_dahlgren will roll out a new report on passive sensor meshes for air and missile defense—tune in! csis.org/events/mesh-se…
the greatest feeling is the world is searching the philosophical literature for a question you're interested in, and discovering that andreas mogensen has written a paper about it
One of the funniest bits in technology policy is seeing if you can get away with declaring nonsensical things a “Sputnik Moment” without anyone challenging you on it.