Merry Christmas, everyone! Ho3! Here’s my beloved daughter baking chocolate chip cookies, which she’ll deliver tomorrow morning with our synagogue to firemen, EMTs, and others who need to work on Christmas Day. My role was […]
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These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you […]
This (taken in Kiel, Germany in 1931 and then colorized) is one of the most famous photographs in Jewish history, but it acquired special resonance this weekend. It communicates pretty much everything I’d want to […]
Not long ago William MacAskill, the founder of the Effective Altruist movement, visited Austin, where I got to talk with him in person for the first time. I was a fan of his book What […]
The following is based on a talk that I gave (remotely) at the UK AI Security Institute Alignment Workshop on October 29, and which I then procrastinated for more than a month in writing up. […]
Scott’s foreword: Today I’m honored to turn over Shtetl-Optimized to a guest post from Michigan theoretical computer scientist Seth Pettie, who writes about a SOSA Best Paper Award newly renamed in honor of the late […]
Near the end of my last post, I made a little offhand remark: [G]iven the current staggering rate of hardware progress, I now think it’s a live possibility that we’ll have a fault-tolerant quantum computer […]
Tomorrow I’m headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose participants need to write one blog post per day or get kicked out. I’ll be there to share my “wisdom” as a distinguished elder […]
A month ago William Inboden, the provost of UT Austin (where I work), invited me to join a university-wide “Faculty Working Group on Academic Integrity.” The name made me think that it would be about […]
This Halloween, I didn’t need anything special to frighten me. I walked all day around in a haze of fear and depression, unable to concentrate on my research or anything else. I saw people smiling, […]
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