Alethios
@alethios.bsky.social
Transhumanist, public servant, forecaster, AI enjoyer, and writer @ alethios.substack.com
How is AI used across the New Zealand public sector? -Usage is surprisingly high, but uneven across agencies. -Copilot dominates usage & shapes understanding of AI capabilities, meaning SOTA is extremely underestimated. -Unions were initially sceptical about AI usage, but have since softened.
How is AI used across the New Zealand Public Sector?
Surveying the breadth, depth, and barriers to AI diffusion across the sector.
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What do the latest generation of AI reasoning models mean for people, institutions, and society? AI reasoning has completely revolutionized capabilities this year, but we're still catching up to the implications of GPT-4. How will we need to adapt to GPT-5? alethios.substack.com/p/anish-tond...
Anish Tondwalkar - The Societal Implications of Reasoning Models
Anish Tondwalkar is a former employee of OpenAI and Google Brain, now the co-founder of Y-Combinator-backed AI interpretability startup ‘dmodel.ai’.
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New Zealand's recent regulatory changes and high geothermal capacity help create an exceptionally low-risk environment for AI hyperscaler investment. See also: high data bandwidth, no visa quotas, geopolitical alignment, simple logistics. alethios.substack.com/p/why-new-ze...
Why New Zealand is an Overlooked AI Hyperscaler Opportunity
'Flops in the wop-wops'
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Every organisation thinks they have one. Few do. Almost every strategy can be more accurately described as a marketing exercise incapable of guiding action as circumstances change. Change is always hard, and we need to get real about strategy to deliver it. Alethios.substack.com/on-strategy
On Strategy
Do we want to win, or just show up?
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Hello? (hello, hello, hello) Is there anybody out there? Just heart if you can hear me. Is there anybody home?
Does Midjourney dream of electric sheep? Is AI an existential risk, as some claim? I've been working with an international team of experts and forecasters for the past year or so trying to answer these questions: https://alethios.substack.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-an-existential
Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Risk?
Seperating genuine concerns from science fiction
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Cities sensors are multiplying exponentially, while our ability to process this data through modern AI grows apace. There's gold in them there hills, but we risk sleepwalking into a tyranny beyond Orwell's wildest dreams. https://alethios.substack.com/p/at-the-dawn-of-the-smart-city-age
At the Dawn of the 'Smart City' Age
Making space for humans in a world of data
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Taiwan not only supplies 90% of cutting edge chips, but also presents an alternative to the West's regulatory and public sector sclerosis. The things they're doing there should excite anyone that still believes in building a better future. https://alethios.substack.com/p/why-we-need-taiwan
Why we need Taiwan
Taiwan is a shining example of the value of a relentless drive for finding innovative ways of improving people's lives, while preserving their dignity and privacy.
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this kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use subgraph is illegal to build in most social networks
Hello Kitty themed departure lounge, Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei).
The main effect of cannabis is decreasing your peripheral awareness. This enables a deeper attention on novelty and effective relief of chronic pain. However, it also limits info, which compounds errors in cases of chronic use. https://alethios.substack.com/p/a-critique-of-the-subjective-effects
A Critique of the Subjective Effects of Cannabis
Cannabis has an enormous presence in our culture and has numerous sub-cultures across Western society. Generations of chart-topping music have been written under its influence. One can find THC cooking shows on Netflix, stoner slang in professional contexts, and an unofficial annual ‘holiday’ celebrated by millions. Legalisation is progressing,
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