Martin Akiyama
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Martin Akiyama
@martinakiyama.bsky.social
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📢 Announcing IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES

A new book from MIRI co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky and president Nate Soares, published by @littlebrown.bsky.social.

🗓️ Out September 16, 2025

Visit the website to learn more and preorder the hardcover, ebook, or audiobook.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Today in pulp I look back at the simple idea that launched a thousand fanzines: Letraset!

Launched in 1959 by Dai Davies and Fred Mackenzie it heralded a graphic design revolution that brought funky fonts and trendy typefaces to the masses... #fontsunday #booksky
December 1, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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I read a lot of amazing non-fiction this year. Here were some of my favourites:

1. How To Survive A Plague by David France.

A detailed, moving, and very frustrating, account of the slow response to the AIDS epidemic. As the subtitle says, it's the story of how activists & scientists tamed AIDS.
December 1, 2024 at 9:30 PM