Manifest 2026 tickets are out!
Early bird tickets are available at a discount through the 18th for $550.🎟️
Volunteer tickets are also available!
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Was at Manifest this weekend, a prediction market/AI/rationalist "conference" with lots of weird goings-on. I have a lot of thoughts on that experience that I might post lol. But one of the topics I had fun discussing was the combination of the big two topics -- whether AI was
Today Conspectus launched our first Situation Room: the Iran War Room.
We model the people who move markets and geopolitical events, digging below signal to determine their incentives, constraints, networks, behavioral patterns, and decision-making logic.
Outcomes are
if you are at lighthaven for manifest i'm giving a talk authored by @lightcellenergy and claude ̶f̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ opus 4.8 and called "how to build a dyson sphere across 60(!) orders of magnitude" at 11am at the cantor's diagonal hall.
Last Sunday, I won the poker tournament at Manifest, an event dedicated to prediction markets.
I'm told people at Manifest are good at gambling.
The prize is a $3k charitable donation. I'd like to give it to @StopAI_Info or @StopTheAIRace but they don't have 501c3's set up :/
Final toll: 67 casualties, 700 exposed to dangerous levels of minari, 808,000 expected to develop busting that shit down disorder later in life or in offspring
If you're going to Manifest, check out my talk on prediction markets. Next steps from my ReStud/MS papers about markets inside organizations. Overview/links below.
The safety debate has spent a decade asking whether AGI will be aligned.
@sreeramkannan's argument: that's the wrong demon.
Even perfectly aligned AGI concentrates power if it lives inside 3 buildings in San Francisco.
Alignment without coordination is just obedient
The MNX team built @ManifoldMarkets, one of the best places on the internet. Super bullish on AI futures trading in general, and MNX is going to be the place to do it. Congrats!