Tom Chivers

@TomChivers

"Far too nice to be a journalist", according to Terry Pratchett. chiversthomas(a)gmail. Third book, Everything is Predictable, out now!

Science writer geni.us/EIPBook Joined January 2009

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Tom Chivers @TomChivers Oct 4, 2023

A small announcement: my next book, Everything is Predictable, about how Bayes' theorem is the most important little equation in the world, is out in April and will look like this! If you'd like to pre-order, you can do so here geni.us/EIPBook and I will be very grateful

Tom Chivers @TomChivers 6d

A small theory of mine is that Rishi Sunak’s decision to set up the AISI might be one of the most important prime ministerial decisions of this century.

Rob Wiblin Verified account @robertwiblin Nov 3

Is the UK Government literally #1 in the world in terms of how well it's preparing for AGI, given the resources it has available?

After last week's budget, I think so.

Puts some other countries to shame really.

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Tom Chivers @TomChivers Nov 2

Incredible. The Ballon d'Or is still warm and he's already moved onto new challenges

Tom Chivers @TomChivers Oct 18

Appalled to realise that Iain Banks used an LLM to write The Player of Games

Tom Chivers @TomChivers Sep 16

surely this is one of the least controversial statements it's possible to make? There are ≈8 billion egg-laying chickens alone and most of them live in horrible conditions and constant pain ourworldindata.org/do-better-cage… you can think it's worth it for cheap food but it's not false!

ourworldindata.org Do better cages or cage-free environments really improve the lives of hens? Research suggests that moving hens from battery cages to cage-free environments reduces the time animals spend in pain substantially.

Jordan Schachtel Verified account @JordanSchachtel Sep 15

I’m telling you guys. You don’t understand how weird and anti-human Effective Altruism is. This is only surface level stuff.

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