Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

COO, Watertight AI | Scaling Agent Oversight Prev. Fellow at RAND. Georgetown IR.

Joined January 2022

171Posts 220Followers 156Following

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Matthew Yglesias

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Dec 20

I’m learning over the past 24 hours that the most powerful Claude features are hidden in Claude Code which turns out to be useful for things other than computer programming but requires dealing with the terminal ui instead of a friendly chatbot app.

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Joel Becker

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Dec 14

a pattern in AI: - popular imagination focuses on proxy as marker of intelligence (games, turing, ...) - ...proxies fall quickly - ...proxies later don't feel like sign of 'real AI' i wonder if, come 2028, long-horizon SWE tasks might be seen as continuation of this trend.

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

Sep 1

Good writing is a reasonable indicator of good thinking, and the contrapositive :)

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

Aug 11

On vacation for the next five days. What should I read?

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

Aug 1

I would like a chrome extension on twitter (if possible) that redacts things from my screen according to the higher-order preferences I give it.

Séb Krier

@sebkrier

Aug 1

The thing with algorithms is that they mostly optimize for your revealed preferences (e.g. user smokes cigs, show more cigarette content); mostly fine, but if users could override these with higher-order preferences (e.g. stopping smoking), the Internet would be much better.

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

Aug 1

What are the best open source alternatives to Cursor? (Are any of them good)? Asking for a project... 👀

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

Jun 28

Just visited Mt. Vernon. The constitution and founding fathers are based, but slavery is evil and must be destroyed.

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Dawn Song

@dawnsongtweets

Jun 18

2/📡 To track this accelerating frontier, we have launched the Frontier AI Cybersecurity Observatory — an open platform to monitor AI capabilities across offensive and defensive security tasks. We invite AI and security communities to collaborate and contribute. Because what…

dawnsongtweets's tweet image. 2/📡 To track this accelerating frontier, we have launched the Frontier AI Cybersecurity Observatory — an open platform to monitor AI capabilities across offensive and defensive security tasks.
We invite AI and security communities to collaborate and contribute.
Because what…

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Yusuf Mahmood

@YusufSMahmood

Jun 4

This announcement was a huge win. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will focus on national security, rather than bias/equity. In other words: this administration is thinking seriously about AI's national security implications. Some highlights:

YusufSMahmood's tweet image. This announcement was a huge win.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will focus on national security, rather than bias/equity.

In other words: this administration is thinking seriously about AI's national security implications.

Some highlights:

Everett Smith

@DefenseBased

May 6

16/20 of the first posts on my following this morning is the Techno-Industrial Policy Playbook.

Kelvin Yu

@kelvinotcelsius

May 6

LAUNCHING TODAY: rebuilding.tech. @JoinFAI @AmerCompass @IFP and @newindustrials are proud to release the Techno-Industrial Policy Playbook—a blueprint to rebuild American power in the areas that matter most: labs, factories, and battlefields. Here's what's inside...

kelvinotcelsius's tweet card. Policies for kickstarting America’s techno-industrial renaissance

The Techno-Industrial Policy Playbook

Source: rebuilding.tech

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Marius Hobbhahn

@MariusHobbhahn

Apr 25

In a year, people will be "vibe researching," and it will be some mix of unprecedented amazing insights and the biggest science spam in history.

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Apr 1

Deleted this post because Kevin is right - it isn’t clear that a better prompted LLM, or a consensus or pass experiment with multiple attempts, would not be able to solve more of these problems. Testing LLMs is challenging for these reasons.

emollick's tweet image. Deleted this post because Kevin is right - it isn’t clear that a better prompted LLM, or a consensus or pass experiment with multiple attempts, would not be able to solve more of these problems. Testing LLMs is challenging for these reasons.

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Lizka

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Mar 14

Can we get AI to stabilize the world faster than it disrupts it? Even as AI poses risks, it’ll provide new tools for navigating those risks. But these tools won't develop themselves (yet!). In a new 📄, we explore what tools would help most & how to outpace broad AI progress.

LizkaVaintrob's tweet image. Can we get AI to stabilize the world faster than it disrupts it?

Even as AI poses risks, it’ll provide new tools for navigating those risks. But these tools won't develop themselves (yet!).

In a new 📄, we explore what tools would help most &amp; how to outpace broad AI progress.

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Dylan Patel

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Mar 11

We are going super deep into robotics from models to supply chains Part 1 is a banger start to the series We are covering from the basics of hardware like batteries, motors, actuators, magnets, materials We also cover the big historic robotics firms and China's rise

SemiAnalysis

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Mar 11

America Is Missing The New Labor Economy Robotics Part 1 China's Dominance Playbook General Purpose Robotics Is The Holy Grail Robotic Systems Breakdown Supply Chain Hardships The West Is Positioned Backward and Covering Their Eyes semianalysis.com/2025/03/11/ame…