Ed Leon Klinger

Hardly anyone on Earth understands the magnitude of this. It's actually happening right now. Crazy that we get to witness it close up.

My Grok Bot at 11.59pm before Black Friday

Contrary to popular belief, technological progress is not a surefire thing.

We flew commercial passenger jets at Mach 2, then stopped, and haven’t replaced them since. We put men on the Moon 50 years ago and haven't been back.

Technology only improves if a lot of people work hard to make it better.

The future we dream about is far from guaranteed.

In December 2019 a small community of Twitter users became keenly interested in what appeared to be the early stages of a pandemic developing in the Chinese city of Wuhan. As COVID-19 started to spread they raised the alarm and were widely derided for fear-mongering. But they were just spotting a pattern early - and the world paid the price for ignoring them.

In 2026 a small community of X users has become keenly interested in what appears to be the early stages of superintelligence. As AI enables new risks they are raising the alarm about its potential harms but are being widely derided for fear-mongering.

But perhaps they are just spotting a pattern early.

I turned @shaunmmaguire's brilliant bottom-up model into an interactive site, so that anyone can play around with the underlying assumptions.

Few-shotted by combining @bot (for research/structure) with @ChatGPT (for the build itself)

See the site, Orbital Thesis -> …is-spacex-lab.flock-8897.chatgpt.site