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Max Winga
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Midwest American nerd living in London to work on AI safety @ Conjecture. I studied physics to discover the beauty of the universe, not realizing the eldritch horrors that I would discover as a result.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Sep 12
ControlAI has just launched our new campaign pushing for a ban on superintelligence! We've gathered some big-name endorsements and more are on the way. Check it out at campaign.controlai.com

We also put together a release video for the launch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJU...
Why experts fear superintelligent AI – and what we can do about it
YouTube video by ControlAI
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Aug 18
Honored to have been interviewed for
@washingtonpost.com!

While they missed my overall point about how GPT-5 is still very much "on trend" towards superintelligence *despite* no step-change, it's great to see mainstream media casually discussing the dangers of superintelligent AI.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Mar 23
The most vile "we must risk ASI" argument is we're "doomed" without.

When you've given up on humanity and have no vision for the future beyond "summon a demon to see what happens" it's no wonder you end up pro-extinction.

Traitors to humanity should be kept far from the wheel.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Feb 6
This is a critical issue we cannot afford to ignore, despite the chaos around the world right now. Contacting your representatives is quick and easy, send them an email today!
pauseai.bsky.social PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · Feb 6
16 MPs and 87% of Brits agree that the development of superintelligent AI should require safety guarantees, 60% believe it should be banned outright.

If you're among this overwhelming majority, demand that your representatives take action. Contact them today!

time.com/7213096/uk-p...
Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI
A new poll shows the British public wants far stricter AI rules than its government does.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 29
In his article he explicitly calls for the US to take over the world with self-improving superintelligent AI systems (that he has no idea how to control)
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 29
The negative game theoretic incentives here are strong. The only hope for humanity to survive is via international coordination to immediately stop our suicidal race to build uncontrollable superintelligent aliens in the hope that we can wing a solution to chain them to our will.
Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls
On DeepSeek and Export Controls
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 29
@anthropic.com is not the "AI Safety Lab"

CEO Dario Amodei is now explicitly calling for a global US takeover via superhuman AI systems Recursively Self-Improving far beyond human capabilities.

This is unbelievably dangerous. We cannot control such systems. Humans do not "win" this arms race.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 18
These models don't abide by our intuitions about intelligence. Just because they can't count the r's in "strawberry" doesn't mean they can't be really good in other areas.

Even if they aren't "true" intelligence or whatever, they still can posses worrisome capabilities.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 18
My take on this is that because Math+CS are easier to verify, they are easier to implement in the current RL paradigm.

My concern is that we're on the verge of "spiky" AGI that is superhuman in some but not all ways. It might be that Math+CS are all we need for RSI to take over and spiral away.
Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible
An AI expert argues AI progress hasn’t stalled, it’s become invisible, which could leave us unprepared for the future.
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Currently using TS + Node.js, but have been looking into backend services like Vercel, Appwrite, and Supabase. Do you have experience or thoughts on these versus custom backends?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
That makes sense, I started out doing data science with python as well. Despite mostly working with typescript now, I still miss the more readable python (and no semi-colons haha)

Now that you're more established have you found any drawbacks to this setup, any major annoyances?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
This is a really cool idea. Do you know of any major sites that do this? I recently learned that 1password works offline which was convenient in a pinch.

Can something like this be implemented using backend services like Vercel, Appwrite, or Supabase?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
That's awesome! What drew you to Vercel vs other options like Supabase? Which features are you implementing in your backend?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Nice!

Yeah everything has worked so far, it's taken a bit longer to set up but is probably cheaper than using a service.

Other than auth, what do you need your backend to do? Have you considered which service you would look into?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Big move! What made you pick NextJS on Vercel vs other backend services like Supabase?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
How's your experience been with Vercel so far? I'm looking around at different backend solutions and it seems highly recommended
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Wow, that's a lot for one role! How do you manage it all? Do you build custom backends or use backend services like Vercel or Supabase?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Nice, were you able to implement the entire backend in Supabase, or did you need to do anything outside of it?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Sounds great! What have you built so far with it?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Slick, are you able to do your entire backend with Supabase or do you have anything outside of it? I've talked to some people who end up with a Next.js backend linking to the Supabase backend
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Oops yeah, thanks!

Also curious why you go for python + firebase?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
Nice! What are you using? Have you built functions to do backend things like DBs, users, and pyaments that you use between projects?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
This is really cool! What's your stack for the project?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
We've built the backend from scratch on our project, it's definitely been a bit of a pain to get everything integrated tho. Why did you choose the custom route vs. backend services?
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Max Winga @maxwinga.bsky.social · Jan 14
How has your experience been with Supabase? Have you tried any other offerings or coding your own backends? Any tradeoffs that you wish you didn't have to make with it?
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