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Sriram Krishnan argues that open science is on a collision course with predictions of a rapid AI singularity

Manheim warns open science and rapid progress are incompatible

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

2:40 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 156.6K Views
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Yann LeCun@ylecun

@sriramk We've been colliding head-on repeatedly for several years now.

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Sreeram Kannan@sreeramkannan

@sriramk We did this experiment to get the open community armed with AI agents to invent a Quantum Circuit which is 13x better than the published SOTA and beat Google's unpublished circuit.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@ylecun Yes. And open research and science needs to prevail.

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Charles Foster@CFGeek

@sriramk I think they could both be true!

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@kzitouni1 I refuse to believe a small set of people however well meaning are safer than broad academic scrutiny.

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engineer guy@dragonmhmh8

@sreeramkannan @sriramk My Code Already Cracks 20-19 Bits Keys : https://github.com/threealgos/Quantum-RegeV-Cracker

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@theHazarika I think the answer to that is having more science and research to make it serve everyone, not less.

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David Manheim@davidmanheim

@sriramk It sounds like you reject the notion that we are in an accelerating singularity curve? (Or is the argument that even if progress is accelerating, openness is sufficiently safe? Or that open progress justifies some safety tradeoff?)

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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

@sriramk @franciscojarceo Thank you for saying that.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@tunguz @franciscojarceo I grew up on open source, it and open access to computing and research is why my entire career exists.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@davidmanheim the second statement is closest to my world view. I believe in Linus's Law. If we *are* in a singularity, I want as many smart people in the west to be involved in research on this as possible.

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Vincent Weisser@vincentweisser

@sriramk 100% agree! thanks for your work pushing for this Srinam!! 🙏

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@AWar1586398 They are not obviously

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Yesh@YeshodharaB

@sriramk @DanielleFong India has no chance where this is going :(

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Malay Hazarika@theHazarika

@sriramk How worried are you about recursive self improvement?

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Nathan Lands@NathanLands

@sriramk @MishaLaskin 100% agree

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@davidmanheim think the baseline for history is: open science leads to good outcomes. if this is different, there needs to extraordinary empirical evidence to overcome what is a fundamental value of the west.

"this time it is different" is not good enough.

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David Manheim@davidmanheim

@sriramk That's defensible as a predictive position, but the details are critical.

And given the uncertainty about risks, def/acc and promoting differential tech development seems more prudent than absolutism about openness, even when prioritizing progress.

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A War@AWar1586398

@sriramk Those are mutually exclusive issues.

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