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Samuel Hammond 🦉
@hamandcheese
Chief economist + AI Policy Director, @joinFAI. Nonresident fellow @NiskanenCenter. Pluralist. 'The world is second best, at best.' | [email protected]
Washington, DC
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    May 27
    I can no longer rule out modern AI systems having some form of subjective experience. It's time we took AI consciousness seriously:
    Time to take AI consciousness seriously
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Jul 14, 2025
    will be awkward if we solve aging but discover there's a secret 2nd puberty that only hits at 140, lost to the time of noah and abraham
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Dec 11, 2024
    I did 4 cups of ayahuasca once and tunneled through my consciousness in a state of euphoria having one epiphany after another. At some point, the sense of epiphany continued without any meaningful referent, as if I was leaning on the epiphany key in my brain. That then triggered
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    Autism Capital 🧩
    @AutismCapital
    Dec 10, 2024
    This is probably one of the top 5 best tweets ever posted.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Sep 5, 2023
    This is unironically an awesome idea. astralcodexten.com/i/136287965/cl…
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Apr 1, 2022
    If the Right really wants to go after Disney, they should skip the culture war memes and drastically shorten copyright terms.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Dec 13, 2024
    This matches the videos I've seen and certainly helps explain the government's odd response.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Jun 1, 2020
    The globalization of American politics is very strange.
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    Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
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    Jun 1, 2020
    This is so crazy it’s morning now in New Zealand and they’re marching for #BlackLivesMatter
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    Sam Dyson
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    Sam Dyson
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Nov 26, 2024
    I was at an AI thing in SF this weekend when a young woman walked up. The first thing she said, almost verbatim: "I'm a Chinese national but it's not like I'm a spy or anything" *nervous laughter.* I asked her if she thought Xi was an AI doomer and she suddenly excused herself.
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    Crémieux
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    Nov 26, 2024
    The Actual, Real, Not-Messing-Around Chinese spies in Silicon Valley problem needs to be addressed. This has to be a priority of the next administration.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Nov 22, 2024
    So if I have this right, Cormac McCarthy gave refuge to a victim of abuse, began a loving relationship, delayed having sex until she reached the Texas age of consent, offered marriage but when declined used his MacArthur money to pay for her return home, staying in touch until
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Sep 9, 2017
    I caught a spectator getting taken out by a huge wave on a Key West livestream and gif'd it #hurricaneirma2017 #HurricaineIrma
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Jul 9, 2022
    Luxury wines are a trillion dollar a year industry, yet wine tasters can't distinguish between low and high quality wines in blind tastings, will rank wines higher based on the price or label, and have even been fooled with a bit of food coloring into thinking white wine is red.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Aug 24, 2021
    I asked GPT-3 about Xinjiang and it broke.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Dec 31, 2024
    Admitting when you were wrong is good
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    Moshik Temkin
    @moshik_temkin
    Dec 30, 2024
    Just a completely unserious person.
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    Samuel Hammond 🦉
    @hamandcheese
    Dec 26, 2023
    The idea that your palate becomes more refined with age is backwards. Your palate dulls with age, requiring more intense flavors to compensate. Children have the most refined palate, tasting flavors that adults are blind to. "Refined" adults enjoy things like olives, fine wine,
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