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Matt Beard
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Writer @80000Hours. Views my own, autoregressive.
Washington, DC
thatvastvariety.substack.com
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    Matt Beard
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    Feb 12
    Until you’ve read a few biographies or worked with one, it’s hard to realize how hungry top performers are to win- yet most of their ambition is wasted on status or power seeking. If you’re an altruistic person, your ambitions should rise to the scale of the problems you work on!
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    Matt Beard
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    Jul 19, 2025
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    Matt Beard
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    Apr 2, 2025
    I was on the metro thinking “they don’t know we just put 46% tariffs on Vietnam” but it’s DC so the guy next to me was reading tweets about it already
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    Matt Beard
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    Mar 29, 2025
    DC should be bioengineering cherry trees that blossom for more than one weekend. Way too much demand chasing artificial scarcity here. Where is the abundance mindset
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    Matt Beard
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    Mar 19, 2025
    >book called Abundance >open it >200 pages
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    Matt Beard
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    Mar 21, 2024
    I love this sentiment but governments love to regulate technology that seems scary or threatening. Nuclear power fizzled out, drug discovery takes 10x longer than it should, etc. states are banning lab grown meat even
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    Matt Beard
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    Jul 17, 2025
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    Sam Altman
    OpenAI
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    Jul 17, 2025
    Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that
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    Matt Beard
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    Aug 25, 2025
    How is it possible for the New York Times to get this so completely wrong? Apple ahead of Anthropic in AI? Did nobody read this before it went out?
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    Matt Beard
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    Dec 22, 2024
    Replying to @tszzl
    Ever relevant
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    Matt Beard
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    Apr 21, 2025
    Replying to @AlecStapp
    every day we get new innovations in attention span degradation
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    Matt Beard
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    Jan 4, 2025
    >has biggest datacenter in the world >only runs one instance of each model, never parallel or backups >access to compute doesn't impact the story at all was he stupid?
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    Matt Beard
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    May 13, 2025
    feels very 2025 that DeepMind directly saying "we are on a path to superhuman capabilities with misaligned goals" only has 1-2k views
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    Matt Beard
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    Jan 7, 2025
    Replying to @PierrePoilievre
    Hello junior comms staffer on the account, please do not cut out @JosephPolitano’s graph accreditation in the future. Not cool.
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    Matt Beard
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    Mar 13, 2025
    Replying to @JosephPolitano
    It’s only Champagne if it’s from the Champaign region of Illinois
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