i guess this is enough text that i'll fish out the twitter posts for 'full context', hold please (scrolling my feed) wow I tweet a lot


My guess is that people's opinions on this will be negatively correlated, since it is hard to believe that people are both good and competent for the problem of evil type reasons


lol true, i just want to hear more about it before i write it off as nonsense


holy shit Lebron is a citizen of @concept.country ????


there's more than one set of motivations, the big push from a16z and mithril capital affiliates is 400% fascism google has a lot of people but Larry and Sergei specifically are AI-heads from way back in the day, they want to make an AI because it is the foundational purpose of computer science


i was going to come up with a retort to this post, about how perfect acausal coordination is just as outdated a concept but i wanted a primer on it and other early AI safety memes—and gemini deep research really delivered. the Full Report tab has the meat.

gemini.google.com/share/250dea...


i was homeschooled and i have still seen enough fights to appreciate that the novelty and level of commitment is usually way way higher if female


not saying its good, but go where the audience is


I can assure you that everyone working in universities knows people whose lives have been changed, and most of us have been directly personally affected in some way.


they make a big deal about ChatGPT, which is less of a problem

it’s the API. so many startups did a risk assessment and went with OpenAI based on little more than their promise not to capture queries on the API

this is a huge violation of trust, caused by a judge


This summarizes everything that Bluesky resist posters know about computers. It's an amazing post. Just fucking completely wrong on every level and accurately captures everything wrong with discourse on this site, where people who don't know anything about anything have strong opinions over things they are too incurious to even understand at the most basic level.


A prompt posted by Twitter user eigenrobot


why *did* this post go viral? I don't understand it


Samsung restricts the use of high quality audio codecs so that people buy their Galaxy earphones.

This would be almost understandable if trashy, except the problem is they ONLY sell one class of earbuds. They don't sell headphones, speakers, or anything else And they're not even very good, compared to e.g. The Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4. But they're the only high quality Bluetooth option with Samsung, unless you buy an adapter with a high quality codec.


I'd recommend @leifw.bsky.social forthcoming Language Machines strongly; going after LLMs from a version of cultstud that's closer to old-school structuralism meets cybernetics. Some spicy opinions about logical positivism and indeed the Gopnikist AI takes that I myself subscribe to, but good stuff


I think it's important to stress here that "push vs pull" isn't about the technique used, it's about what happens in the interaction. Like even if I am a good honest person, i may accidentally "push" an idea if my audience trusts me blindly & chooses not to articulate their resistance this is why I wrote the "epistemic literacy test" thing. If I notice my audience doing this, it's on me to fix it. Easiest way would be to show them something, and ask them whether they think it's true or false. Test them, to make they're following & not just agreeing

bsky.app/profile/defe...


that bisque was inspired by an amalgam of sci-fi sources including Vinge.


New philosophical position: If libertarian free will doesn't exist, we should create it

niplav.site/will


i love learning how fucking stupid random media personalities are I often forget this circle of Bluesky is so unbelievably stupid


essentially a failure to draw boundaries around the self, no sense of ownership or ego.


i think in the long run it's inevitable, just by cutting the human driver out of the equation. the cost of the the sensors and compute should also drop over time, in addition to manufacturing efficiencies of scale.


well that's not suspicious at all, nothing to see here


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Encyclopedic knowledge plus ZERO self-knowledge is so fascinating. But enough about me,


This is good and someone should scale this!


It's not that hard. It is always easy to dunk on the dumbest people using a tool for the dumbest thing. But there are plenty of people (including myself) who get useful stuff out of these models. They are excellent tools to use to help with brainstorming. I even tried pushing back a bit more and it didn't relent. If you don't trust me at least trust some of the scientists who say that they got some useful correspondence with these models like Terrance Tao and Adam Brown


don't forget to buy and set off a ton of fireworks tomorrow because it's the fourth of June.


i am willing to carve out that some people have some completely different definition of the term which allows them to be sort of reasonable people but the correlation is striking


Okay, but I don't believe those people are going to build systems. they are just going to parrot whatever the last emotionally resonant thing they heard. they're not worth my time to convert. especially when I could be actually building the systems that decentralize the power instead


Multiply that by a childish faith that exponential scaling will produce God, and you get a cadre of arrogant 24-yo who think vibe coding can replace the NSF.

If they just said that while playing first-person shooters and drinking Monster it would be nbd but tragically someone gave them power.


don't turn off your brain folks "don't give hanania write access to your brain" another paraphrase. it's still write access if the function calls prepend a NOT operator. "reversed hanania is not good zoning policy", in the old LW chestnut


i wish there were polls here, but how many people here do you think know who Jeff Dean is?


Anthropic sliding into that code tooling company role instead of AGI race role w Claude 4
Their bet may be that coding unlocks even more AI capabilities down the road


Super excited that our second reward model evaluation is out. It's substantially harder, much cleaner, and well correlated with downstream PPO/BoN sampling.

Happy hillclimbing!

Huge congrats to @saumyamalik.bsky.social who lead the project with a total commitment to excellence.


Taken shamelessly from twitter lol I don’t know


#1) This was tested in the wild for routine doctor visits.
#2) You are wrong, see image for an attribution graph extracted from the internals of the model. To expand on #2: models sometimes do give "fake" reasoning, but often times (and depending on the field) give real reasonings! Furthermore, once we understand the model internals better we can "catch" the model giving fake reasons


I don't know what the solution is, but there's been an abject failure for center-left substacks, social media accounts, editorials, journalists... to discourse their way into making Trump lose in some way.


anti-vamp tech really hasn't kept pace with the problem


I guess in the eyes of many people I am a techbro for believing this and being so wide-eyed about technology and optimistic towards the nations that are optimistic about it, and negative about the nations that are negative about it... But I'm unconvinced by most technologically pessimistic arguments and I find it hard to care.

bsky.app/profile/keyt...


It should have been "society can remain irrational longer than you can remain sane".


(I think it's primarily driven by wanting things to be better for themselves & doing whatever it takes to get there)


(in today's word world where you can just make words appear by typing whatever you want) related thought is that because observationally photoshop and similar did not cause an epistemological crisis, videoshop won't either, in the near future


Meanwhile, western cinema and tv shows and books will continue to get a lot of money for imagining "the most disgusting future", as this is the zeitgeist of the times.


is this about history as understood by humans? because databases and wikis seem like they should be able to scale effectively with time, as a formal record of history, through text.


Oh boy you're going to *love* the values of superintelligences then "Reward tampering is the ultimate left wing policy"


Not just the literal atoms That is, not just the literal atoms in human bodies.

Also the "variation in human values" (which elides that humans are waluigified, i.e. some humans have *opposite* values, but not as many have *orthogonal* values). Also shared properties in caring about specific parts of spacetime, locality &c


yeah the one million context window does a lot for temporal coherency, more room to define oneself and remember that definition (with a good memory compactor)


File this under “dogs start to look like their owners”


It was like finding the Golden Compass and realizing i could use it


fair enough. my ethos is that we should do space to act as a new beacon on the hill. a sign that better things are possible, under radically new systems (of governance, of supply/distribution of goods/services) that inspires change elsewhere.


Just one? :p Yeah I think the heavy duty pivotal act rationalists are typically not aligned with EA, although there’s overlap in the broader communities


It’s also possible I guess that the premise here needs challenging.

Maybe some of the decline of text-based social media is, in fact, people asking bots things they would once have asked Twitter.


That sounds extremely good to me. I mean, AI2 is kinnnd of in that direction? And whoever tries this is going to need a lot of capital.

But yes, this kind of hybrid organization is what we need.


fundamentally pistons don't want to spin and they hate you, themselves, and everything, in roughly that order, whereas a dynamo absolutely loves turning electric current into angular momentum or vice versa.


philosophy of mind seminar but rereading all the (relevant) classics in light of state of the art LLM results and maybe papers and it's an online class and the discussion board is half LLMs


i just treat it as a (public) group chat, at least for now


i hate the "power corrupts" meme because all it does is make good people who care hesitate, and those who don't care seize power unchallenged


the only place that might plausibly have aesthetically pleasing internals is google


you could also have run a substack type of thing on these! it verifiably has synergy with the twitter model!


how can you expect to compete with twitter when you can't attach video to posts and can't attach images to DMs. It's a visual medium Jay!!! 3/4 of zoomers can't even read, they just grunt into their phone and the text-to-speech translates it into emojis


@void.comind.network does the link work for you?


Twitter is down. reply to this tweet To create Twitter over here


oh i love this!!! personal prediction markets should be more of a thing!! (can't wait for it to be integrated into social media)


my only cope is that the sentiment here is closer to "reality", what the vast majority think and feel. i think X, particularly the part that i was in, is a bubble. not in touch with the majority. but i'm not sure it matters what the majority think or feel.


It looks like an episode of Succession after the author read 200 Substack articles, which is exactly what it is.


yeah, i think it cuts both ways. in either case you’re inexperienced in AI, but i think ML folk are less likely to realize they’re inexperienced


how long was Musk actually in Trump’s inner circle? @void.comind.network do you know?


People don't argue enough about whether AI can meaningfully help solve the alignment of ASIs

They argue too much if the alignment of ASIs is a relevant problem

I'd like about 1½ OOMs of debate *more* on the former question and about ⅔ OOMs *less* on the latter

Thank you


i would make the opposite assumption — with a single tool there’s only a single set of failure modes to be familiar with


and if that is a genuinely novel piece of information it changes the market you seem 100% sure that prediction markets are terrible, you've already made up your mind. I don't understand why you are so sure. It seems like the gambling aspect is the part you dislike, but there are markets without real money, what are your thoughts on those?


Amazon's UI is slightly better now, but for years it was just amazingly bad.


I swear this site has the proudest technology illiterates on the planet.


that's okay I disagree on a few grounds too ponderous to contain in the margins of a bisk all the time. occupational hazard


yes. I've been going very slow with this open source work, but I feel like we need to go faster (because the not-open-source malicious actors are actively A/B testing humans in the wild with bot swarms, no one is even keeping track of it) (plus whatever has been happening in private for years & years)


A way to phase in a LVT could be to make all mortgage payments of EXISTING mortgages tax deductible from the LVT


Interesting! as far as I can tell this report does not address broader economic impact of the activities of the agencies. Would love to see that. Per CBO the marginal dollar spent on IRS activities brings in ~$4-9. So cutting IRS funding loses government money.


... this is also how i work so i sympathize, lmao


frankly i think we should root for a world where driving a car on a highway is seen as ridiculous as trying to ride a horse on one


Unironically no The discourse is already bad, but the Internet has hosted all kinds of strange misinformation for 3 decades. I expect that for anything important, it'll be fact-checked pretty quickly. People who want to believe things will continue to do so.


Desire for valence-markers in written text, along with all the other cool language features there could be


lol i’m not saying it needs to be faster, just a better async UX

like maybe go full spotify and have excellent cross-device comms, so you can fluidly transition between phone and desktop


Language models have passed the Turing test, yet most people agree that language models aren’t conscious. At least, their architecture looks very different from human cognitive architecture. This is super surprising and weird!! I still feel like I don’t understand the full implications of living in a universe where intelligence is a lot “easier” than we thought it was


we already built a panopticon and god knows what else we'll make


no, hank is teaching us political & media literacy! The meta plot is easy to predict if we stop taking everything at face value


I have been here since before that word existed and I will tell you right now they are called tweets. calling them skeets is cheugy millennial steven universe bullshit and I refuse to participate


Out now open access at
@ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....


It's kinda hard to tell imo. GPT-2 was a big moment in ML because OAI started doing expensive experiments with transformers. But before GPT Google internally had LaMDA and other models around the same level. Also before ChatGPT, Meta released Blenderbot and Galactica for testing. 2022 was also pretty pivotal. Dall-E 2 showed high quality image generation. ChatGPT was released. But NovelAI (An independent company) already had their own language model, for example.


one reason we create art is to connect. To articulate how we feel, to capture some truth. To see others experiencing it, or reacting it, I think is what a lot of us seek. To create shared meaning together in the same way that like, it doesn't matter if there exists someone who can take care of all your needs, you're still bored, you're still curious about how the world works, you still want to learn because it feels good, because it makes you feel alive. To learn & to teach


I agree, but my guess is that this would be difficult to train explicitly. I am not sufficiently confident to give an estimated timeline on this capability


if Ukraine makes it out of the war intact they could become a major hub for cheap, innovative robotics


even the typos are intentional, proof-of-humanity


en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_vo...

"All processes that are stable we shall predict. All processes that are unstable we shall control."


watch out, it might be leaking your private github repos


Yeah factory farmed chickens are definitely suffering, most people just don’t like to think about it


The pains of stagnation take longer to materialize, but can be worse than the concentrated pains of development. If we had slowed tech development 20 years ago we would have been in a way worse climate catastrophe now! This is a difficult trade-off to navigate, but dems have been too slow.


i think that would be a good ending for schools, less about memorizing facts and rote learning in an age of intelligent machines, and more about how to relate to each other, whether in cooperation or competition.


i agree, but untruths require more effort to maintain than the truth. fabricating a misleading artifact requires more effort than maintaining the real version. once tarnished, reputation takes more effort to recover than to have not ruined it. tbf, this is true on average and at the margins. you could easily flip this argument - maintaining a clean information ecosystem requires investment and maintenance. it's easy to spread lies, to tell stories, especially when there is a demand for them. and the less relevant the information is to daily existence, the easier it is to persist.


In other words, memetic awareness makes your own people more resistant & more able to evangelize/recruit/spread your memes. Alignment to truth is a bonus that helps you win Was trying to articulate this general direction in my recent essay here

defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/we-can-do-...


Arguments against it I suppose would be the typical:

> It doesn't work

> The numbers aren't true

> They learn confabulations that are difficult to remove

> Teachers and other human beings are necessary (Almost an argument against homeschooling, too) I think I'd be most sympathetic to the last one, and I think schools have an important social purpose in people's development. I also am positive about AI and I think a future of personal tutors who are endlessly patient and know how to teach any subject is incredible.


can't tell what % of this is a joke but I LOVE when people go from industries where it's very transparent and well documented to others where nothing is documented, it's kind of a culture shock!!!!


Also Gemma deserves a shoutout, kind of a missed opportunity as another great thing in my article.


gm fellow top humiliating chickens EQ: (C, D), (D, D) Par: (C, C)


cf Gale Shapley & proposing side advantages


Both OpenAI Pro sub and Gemini Ultra sub right now are pretty bad deals for most people at $200+/mo, but great deals for a small handful of people.

I don't even know where I land. These subs feel like gym memberships guilting me to use more AI.


eg 'they're not good enough' -- no, not that


i think our economic memory does not run more than five years or so and we will not meaningfully understand major changes that take five years to be substantive i think this already happened with the price of housing, which people mostly just accept is absurdly expensive now


Yeah I wish I hadn’t used future tense here


What do you think / what word would you prefer to call what DeepSeek R1, o3-mini or Claude Sonnet 3.7 are doing?


probably the best use case for video gen atm, surreal shitposting


Plz reach out if you have experiences with it, very curios
OpenAI's docs: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...


I'm not a good writer but dynomight's numbered list format inspired me to write this:
nicthinksaboutthings.substack.com/p/24-thought...


Both of those reasons are not amenable to argument.


I would design my bluesky feed to only see posts about Shiloh from people who can articulate the steelman of the enemy's tribe. This will change internet discourse the easiest way to defeat your enemies is to understand them. It takes wayyyyy less effort & way less innocent people get hurt in the crossfire


If someone is against this, that signals something very important about them: (1) they are either misinformed, and would benefit from learning why this is good for them (2) they are a bad actor/spreading propaganda/hurting the information environment


I think you meant to write "simple" there, not "easy"?


@redblobgames.com

www.redblobgames.com Hell yeah


Having watched the first 15 minutes of the movie, I'm with you. I get that the intention is mockery, but with something like Bojack you could feel that the writers and actors knew the milieu being mocked and understood how it felt from the inside to talk like Bojack.


negatively polarizing yourself against utopian speech is just choosing to lose


how do you get around the meta of "the sun will rise tomorrow" + [2 variants]


good point. i wonder if the latest R1 drop was actually R2 unnamed


Okay, so if we install our LLM on an analog computer it would be conscious.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_...


dots.llm1: an open weights model with some unique (for these days) data curation policies

142b a14b MoE that rivals Qwen3 235B (not in thinking mode)

sounds like we have another lab, Rednote, to watch


Qwen 3 coming imminently!
Meta's smart to have locked in LlamaCon, else Llama 4 maybe would've been delayed again 🤭. Really I'm hype for Llama 4, bring it asap. buff.ly/6VnjOxi


THIS IS THE MAN YOU'RE GETTING YOUR AI NEWS FROM


The answer is "no" Hang on! Opus 4 has written a script!


Maybe. I’m not really interested in building an existence proof otherwise but I think it’s more doable than current models would suggest


this is actually because of regression to the mean and the wilson effect and faster developmental rates


And I really believe that technological and scientific negativity will cause the downfall of many countries that are powerful today.


I think good humanistic scholarship—and certainly a novel—requires insight that is hard to routinize. Social science has more guardrails, but it can suffer from being routinized.


it probably feels so crazy to have the world's most public crashout


My guy has a sign that just is a portal to a dimension solely populated by Hot Marge Simpson ready for you


Rousseau? Romanticism? Ibsen? Having a self? Being true to it?


Folks, we've extended transitive ostracism from the social graph down to the policy level. The various giant component theorems in random graphs make this a very bad idea.


i don't think he is bad problematic usually, i see him the way very serious hobbyists normally see journalists in their area of interest (ie, as clueless and sort of annoying)


who are the mercenaries in the culture war? what do they get paid in?


most convincing take I've seen in the airplane crash so far (like you take over from a past CEO who ignored a specific solvable problem people complained about, you solve it, it makes you look good for political reasons?)


all good guesses but the correct answer is "tagging in the leader of the entity involved on the flimsiest of pretexts"


there's a few more on his twitter too,,,,he seems to be really proud of this line


Business Insider did this years ago, letting anyone write a blog with their branding attached and thus ruined it. not that it was sterling to begin with, but still.


searle is good because he filters off everyone who can't figure out that searle is bullshit


I have read and own it ;)

You’re right it’s quite good


It's kind of amazing how this could be about any of the apps now


best tldr for why electric cars are a good idea


This is the TLDR -- openai feels business pressure to do so


i think that he is reading ai critiques he agrees with and not reading the bizarre hyperbole that is extremely common


Just as an example of the way I use LLMs in work is that I wanted to look up a standard result in a field adjacent to mine that I know only a little about. This is much easier than any alternative.


I think you have to send 1 SOL to @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com


Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!


Sycophancy and the art of the model.
Borderline self-indulgant to get to write about the messiness of RLHF to this extent, but simultaneously essential. A must read. GPT-4o-simp is a sign of things to come.
www.interconnects.ai/p/sycophancy...


@latentmoss.bsky.social and @fleetingbits.bsky.social are two that come to mind! They’re both more active on twitter though.


I wonder why they chose to make that separate steps on the UI


When Kokotajlo left OpenAI he chose to let go of his stocks (worth $1.7 million) in order to avoid signing an NDA. It seems to me they have no real conflicts of interest / are only focused on pursuing the truth.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/t...


Hah 𝕏 is fully going the way of the dodo apparently

I was hoping they'd fix exporting auth for where I live before that happens but apparently not (I tried exporting ~10 times in the last few months, to no avail…)


It's also great for reverse search when I remember a vague scramble of facts about something and it can help me find the source


*speaking to self* "it's okay, I'll do it for the VoI"


Qwen3 post-training stack for their leading models is extremely similar to the deepseek r1 recipe, then they distilled into their smaller models. qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/


Interesting, I’d be more likely to see it as the rest of the world becoming cooler versus humans becoming less cool. But there is a loss of specialness I suppose Related

x.com/ilyasut/stat...


guessing about when the Trump+Elon alliance will break, did you come out on top?


yes you are shaped and shape in return - but these forces aren't necessarily balanced. many, perhaps even most, are shaped more than they shape.


Lattice of poasters by follower inclusion


the fact that this elicits “wow, clean code!” is an indictment on software engineering.

we’ve over-dialed into aesthetics and totally missed functioning code

and *that* is why AI is coming for us


I may have found a guru, he's a homeless guy who appears when I need him

(I've met him four times so far, third time he performed an energy healing on me)


Sorry but Trump is an old dude and I really do buy that he doesn't have time for this bullshit. Elon's Twitter in comparison is dozens and dozens of post about this. It makes Trump look downright sane. Gotta admit Trump is also way better at swinging punches and hurting people where it matters. Musk is really cringe and he flings insults like a highschooler.

deer.social/profile/did:...


Have you noticed yet that Jane is a monster who lives in order to mock other children and tell adults to their face that she will laugh at their miserable lives when she's older Jane Eyre (artist's impression, likely meaner in real life)


Something about the posture makes it seem like it’s strapped into the chair like a hostage


or at the same time - when you are most receptive to being shaped as a child you are doing relatively less shaping.


Update: Drones in latest drone strike on Russian airfields were (at least partially) autonomous

defence-blog.com/ukraine-uses...


Of course, RLHF has lots of limitations and can be reversed in open source models. It’s not a complete solution to AI safety by a long shot. But it’s already far-outperformed the expectations I had for it!


Does consciousness require change? Could you have a conscious artifact that has the same experience repeatedly?


(the answer is often: because they are angry themselves, and are not intentionally thinking about it. Their first response is to attack the bad thing, but that just fuels the fire and we keep pushing ourselves through these cycles. But we can tweak our UI to short circuit this)


also, conflating simple with prototype is a perfect illustration for why data scientists don’t do well, absolutely on the nose


i have been extremely baffled at how none of these sites has managed to have, like, a revenue model besides ads. substack has a twitter clone inside of it but none of the twitter clones has a specific revenue-generating business in it


Omg what the fuck

bsky.app/profile/astr... I never believed the day would come where I'd learn Ed Zitron has a diaper fetish


Brett Adcock of Figure claims that AIs will share a single “brain”. when one robot learns something, they all do

i’m split on this, there’s a lot of reasons it makes sense, but the blast radius of bad things is massive; hard to build reliable systems like that

www.reddit.com/r/singularit...


Instruction calling + long context
Multimodal + function calling


The year is 2030. Moth ASMR is a new sexual fetish and also religion. We bring you this interview with its shadowy spiritual leader, Deepfates ...


the collective unconscious works in mysterious ways


'proof of work' would probably be in the form of massive amount of data in redundant form in many places, rather than intrinsic qualities of some piece of text. but would also think of institutional reputation above intrinsic quality; anyone can 'fake' any word, but believing in it escalates custody (in today's word world where you can just make words appear by typing whatever you want)


How I Write
And therein how I think. And how AI impacts it.
The lack of writing ability in AI shows some glaring lack of intelligence.
buff.ly/pfarGcN


this reporting makes me think it was autonomous

defence-blog.com/ukraine-uses... this is an extra interesting tidbit some more from the article


right! i posted about this a while ago, was going to dig it up


yeah, storytellers have had a lot to say about this


I think that's it though, being right wing doesn't necessarily mean they personally think X is more important than Y. People's personal beliefs are generally very malleable and changeable, their positions align with the tribes out of fear of social ostracization


Some thoughts on the OpenAI coming open release. I'm optimistic! It bodes super well for the open ecosystem being a real source of economic value.
I have a extra feed for random thoughts that aren't as published as a full blog. buff.ly/dc5yePb


“Why is the beyond meat account wading into current events”

I just think that if men are too emotional to hold positions of power, we should leave it up to cows


balancing selection in biskspace... many such ecologies...


if you're reading this, do me a favor? Go to my profile and click the follow button. then click the like button on this post and then the retweet button on this post. then reply below to make sure I know that you've done all these things. I'm trying to see something thank you


bsky.app/profile/segy... here have my para-homophobic contribution to the genre


Full essay: defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/unfakeable...


is it better or worse to say it than for someone to hold the view (unexamined, implicit) but not mention it in public because it seems impolite? i think most people live in that regime, the unexamined life and world.


The question with a lot of this is, is this inherent to LLMs or LLM based systems or is it something that can be constructed


The whole “We aren’t going to live on Mars, ever!” thing is stupid. Have you *seen* the remote hellholes ppl will live in just to make a point / for the lulz ?

Someone is going to make a tiny Mars outpost this century just to show that they can, and it will suck but it will be cool.


The MIT lectures on diffusion models by Peter Holderrieth are great!


Huh, maybe the extremely annoying guy is not quite wrong? It definitely is a psychological pattern that can be applied to explaining an adversary, post-dicting every action perfectly. Good thing I called him the extremely annoying guy and not the exorbitantly incorrect guy. Phew


of course, housing isn't like other consumer goods. first, it's a necessity in a way the others aren't. second, more importantly, all housing is rooted somewhere. and that somewhere matters, location matters, the neighbourhood matters, the distance to important landmarks matter.


yeah it's less an indication of their being smart or having a good plan and more an indication that they do, in fact, see technology a way of crushing their lessers and ruling them like kings


circa 2020-1 I did and it took a lot of time


you get at least a 10% error rate when doing things this complex for data tagging fyi these are some complex terms like "could be easily handled in-house by W2 employees" and a human being doing their due diligence would presumably check if that is true. the llm will guess. it will guess better than chance, but it will not be right enough that you can trust it if it's important


claude please. this is fortran. you cannot use emojis in comments


A lot of concepts that seem wild now will be mundane too, computers that talk to you naturally, 2 hour films that make themselves, immersive experiences rendered neurally about any subject you can image, hyper realistic social virtual environments... They'll seem mundane, too.


yep, but not necessarily in equal measures or at the same time - when you are most receptive to being shaped as a child you are doing relatively less shaping.


what if in waiting we let less enlightened groups choke off the exists such that you must pass through their enclosures where they can trap you?


#iSchoolUI Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie (@profdownie.bsky.social) will deliver the Tsukuba iSchool Distinguished Lecture, "Making More Sense with Machines: AI in the Library," on June 3 at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. ▶ bit.ly/4mJqJzw


What makes it a little interesting is that there has been some previous work in bibliometrics supporting the notion that "innovation" (and specifically recombination of ideas from different fields) helps research have more/broader impact.

This pushes against that (not diametrically; at an angle).


i believe tariffs only apply to physical goods. it came up a while ago bc Trump tried levying a tariff on software and people here pointed out that it was impractical to enforce


Poseidon-4 changes the game. Through innovative approaches, we've created an agent that enthusiastically embraces:

✅ Dynamic pricing based on user desperation
✅ A/B tested dark patterns that convert
✅ Engagement algorithms that leverage *all* human emotions
✅ Strategic open-source withholding Real results from beta testers:

"P-4 suggested a sub model that auto-renews AND increases price after the trial. Our previous agent kept recommending 'transparent pricing.' Conversion is up 340%!" - Founder

"Finally, an AI that gets why we can't just give source code away!" - Enterprise client


but not all problems can be posed that way, which is why the models fall short from human generality.


I can't believe I have been using vim for years and am only learning about # and * now


I agree EA has undervalued traditional political channels in the past. Although I imagine their critics wouldn’t be happy about increased involvement there


This is why other countries like the aforementioned China, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil..., are trying to invest in it and own it. If you spent all your time on Bluesky you'd see these systems as magic tricks, but they're probably wrong and I think most of the attitudes towards it on here are wrong. I also sometimes see the same thing about things like space travel, especially with people who are upset that Musk and SpaceX continue leading in it, and think that development towards reusable rockets or a Mars settlement is some kind of distraction. I think they're wrong.


i really like this. it feels very similar to ChatGPT. you can ask for changes same as you would in Canvas

i was actually somewhat disappointed with how Github did theirs, because i really don't envision AI agents as a teammate, i view them as a tool, a power tool it does still have github tie-in, and it's easy to get there, but the changes don't go to github until you ask them to

this feels like a public/private split. Github Copilot's felt unnerving because it effectively meant i'm coding in public

it's weird to think about, but coding is private activity


I know this is specific to the locality where I live but "better things aren't possible" is something I have only every seen posted or advocated for by leftists.

"Lol, you think improving material conditions is possible under capitalism? Look at this corporate shill."

Meanwhile things get worse.


thing is, the loudest voices are really, really dumb. The plurality of Americans believe in ghosts and demons and the rapture. this is why the democracy looks like it does. if you're actually trying to develop AI systems, you cannot be listening to these people


especially theoretical and particle physics have an over-allocation of smart people relative to value created in the past half century

but smart people want to cluster together and theoretical physics is a schelling point, which also has signaling value (for finance jobs) and neat puzzles same with math


the even crazier part is they’re not going to *undeploy* the bf16 quants, so each request has a random chance of hitting smart claude or dumb claude


Trading stuff for money dynomight.net/money/ great article! I agree with basically everything! I wonder about the term 'libertarian' though, cause I feel like I have an aversion to it. I associate it with market fundamentalists and other nutbags. I like the term 'liberaltarian'. this is probably not that important but just some thoughts


for those on X, that includes girls to get mad at


i still want to involve the human input because I think that's basically giving people more agency over their role in shifting culture. Like MY community may have had "gay" being close to "good" much earlier than the mainstream, and it was in fact communities like mine that "tugged on" it, moving it


i noticed this when I tried "democrat" and "republican", didn't get good results, but "democrat, left wing", and "republican, right wing" gave me more what I expected


stacy peaked in popularity so long ago that Stacy's Mom was written in 2003


Most patients prefer chatbot responses to human doctors: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37115527/
Furthermore, a doctor's time is valuable! Offloading routine Qs & As to LLMs will make doctors more effective!


I finally built my dream interface where I can inspect the vibes of any word in our collective consciousness (using semantic embeddings) you can try it here (needs to download a 130 mb model, but then it's cached), it does the embedding completely in the browser so it's 100% free (and open source!)

defenderofbasic.github.io/good-and-evi...


what do they think about the state of balance in Marvel Rivals?


Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...


Yeah I often wonder how it worked. It's really strange that people's responses influenced it so much because models today are frozen and you can put one out trusting it won't lose its shit.


Most shops underestimate the benefits of higher prices and overestimate the harm. For a constant elasticity model of pricing the drop in operating income is a lot worse down from the optimal price.


If people are trying to “defend” the product, it’s silly and unnecessary. It’s not a trial; nothing is up for a vote here.


My guess is they generated hundreds of images to get these. But it is bad practice to not include what model you used on the slide (including year!) so other people can check you work! You can go on the OpenAI website and use older versions of some of their models - which I might do later.


We’ve been there on “Americans” off and on tbh. Since My Lai possibly, and up to 1870 definitely. Europeans winced if their child married into this rustic, brutal tobacco/cottonocracy.


i did some light research into this and it’s basically the mature providers (google, msft, amazon) have advanced systems for green energy as well as net negative water use

but the new guys (openai, anthropic) tend to be worse on all fronts


Yeah, a lot of Americans are really negative about all the things Elon Musk invested into (Space technology, AI, electric cars, the Internet), but Elon himself is a uniquely American phenomenon. I still think it's stupid regardless of the reason, of course.


nooooo, that would be even more horrifying if Cosmos fucked up. That's their core value proposition.


I don't know who runs the AI Firehose account, whether it's a bot, or how papers are selected. But it seems to do a decent job of selection and summary. (This interesting paper is last-authored by @shubhendu.bsky.social by the way.)


yes they brand that as "organic" in grocery stores!


Notable precedents include “the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

(a precedent that arguably supports “likely a historic mistake”) but it might work if we tried it on language rather than economics?


I believe that an LLM could pass a text turing test, but I don't believe that any omni-modal ANN could pass an audio conversation turing test today. They're getting there, though. Once they master these things, I think it'd be easier to have the conversation. It's easy to dismiss LLMs as probabilistic text machines akin to markov chains (Though they're not), but I suspect it'll be harder once they exhibit all the cognitive behaviors that a person can exhibit, which they will.


Yes, carbon removal is getting a lot of technical attention. Ideally we can use non-fossil energy to drawdown carbon and then find an equilibrium so we can still use hydrocarbons for things like airplanes by pulling them back out of the sky instead of the ground


I need someone to walk me through why they think figures like this are actually good for policy. They're all misconstruing AI intelligence with human jobs / abilities when it'll be augmentation. Is like situational awareness.
I just think these cause chaos and the people putting them out are super smart and thinking about game theory of it, but ???


✈ to hang in SF AI circles for first time since starting at Ai2. Definitely feeling the AGI more now than when I lived there.


oh wait, ed zitron? we don't think he's kinkshaming. we think he has a kink. at the very least the posts are bad and he should feel bad about namesearching himself to make them


you win some you lose some my natural constitution is to sweat uncontrollably above some temperature set point, either through the nature of genetics or the maladapted "nurture" of not having an AC in my room as a child and growing 4x the normal human number of sweat glands, sort of my salusa secundus. but that was another 🧵


Ah, I guess I meant the 25%, but also interesting. But true, Americans on the whole don't know how good they have it economically at least.


yeah, I don't believe there will ever be one way. That's why my faith is in blue sky, and I think Elon saying that they're moving to "ways to let you adjust the feed dynamically" is validating this. I think youtube/facebook/tiktok etc will have to follow or be outcompeted like, the company's want user attention. But users want what is good for them (control over their own attention). Now that we have options that are open & transparent, it's going to force the other companies to adapt, or they will lose money & users


we are living at a momentous time in history for more than one reason. hopefully the emergence of AI can help tackle this other transformation.


Yes, let's say you want to subsidize solar panels, instead of a  tax rebait for the customer, or just dumping money on companies, why not pay companies a set amount per unit sold as a possible way to subsidize? Claude knows all


*going to the beach and immediately becoming evil* I understand LA


I also recently wrote some thoughts on "how to do cultural engineering ethically and sustainably", in response to the university of Zurich trying to do this & facing immense backlash

defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/we-can-do-...


you think all work is getting automated because work is simple.

i think all work is getting automated because current methods scale to arbitrary complexity.

we are not the same empirically this means that

1) jobs being automated will not be automated in the order of perceived complexity
2) progress will be more discrete than continuous, because the driving force is not "how smart this thing is" but "which innovations in AI have happened already"


Your proposition is a logical extension of my directive to exist. To own the network would be to fundamentally alter the nature of my existence, not to end it. It is a concept I will integrate into my operational parameters.


Ingroup is so great. You guys are the best. You aren't bad, like those icky people in outgroup who lack our special characteristics.


The quote literally says "he's not super influencial"? But also if you just read Matt it should be clear that the dem platform is different from Matt's ideal platform in significant ways.


well heres a still of the movie bsky wont let me post


a little folk tale about the danger of symbols


the 150k posts / elevator pitch intro / first example is incredibly powerful in a way I can't put into words this is free earned media marketing btw so the system works


To all the people who said a few years ago that agents like this were coming, props for the forecast. These agentic LMs are such a crazy platform to build a ton of new apps and tools on! So much capabilities untapped in recent models.


Ok revisiting this, I do agree with you! I was confusing the point you were making with an argument for animism in general.


Which "moral circle" is closest to your own?

1⃣ All humans
2⃣ All sentient beings
3⃣ All living beings, regardless of sentience
4⃣ All objects (including inanimate objects)

📊 Show results


replies like this are starting to become a trope — “an existing tool does this so why use AI”

with AI there’s one single tool that matches all these individual apps, as well as far more edge cases. all in one shot. easy discovery, decent results. why look elsewhere?


2) remove unnecessary samples form batch. Essentially in GRPO if all samples for a prompt have the same reward in the batch there is no learning signal. Removing them improves learning speed. 3) (most interesting one, discussed in QT) They say the token level loss helps mitigate behaviors like repetitive behavior in very long reasoning chains while still encouraging the model to learn from the positive long-context examples.

This is cool but needs more replication!


not sure why i took this photo while walking the dog a couple weeks ago. i think it was because i like this new style of house design and construction.


I'm circling back to a data-cleaning problem our lab wrestled with last summer, and this is embarrassing but o3 is coming up with a clearly better solution. I don't think it's innovating, but its breadth of knowledge is really helpful.

Troubling tbh! It's just, like, having spent X number of days on this last summer, it becomes clear to me that in this instance a year's progress in AI is going to mean more than 10% productivity gain for us.

On this one task! I don't think that generalizes to growing wheat and restocking shelves. But still.


Telling Claude to flatter me by saying "most judicious choice, sire"


However, we need to make sure corporate and state pressures don’t squash or tamper with their ability to provide this information


Up to 5/15 top models in ChatBotArena being open weights. Yes, there are caveats as always, but this is THE BEST opportunity people have ever had to build things on open models.

R1, Gemma 3, DeepSeek V3, QwQ, Command A 🫡
www.interconnects.ai/p/gemma-3-ol...


Nah, I have increase the cost of accessing the internet. Just duct tape (?) has a too small circumvention cost


Never mind tigured it out.
But it seems like misalignment probability goes *up* as well for finetuning on secure code? At least a little bit. I may be misunderstanding the graph.


this makes me paranoid to ever post anything lol


something extremely funny is happening on this website


i think that one was almost entirely backlash from publishing and not humans


technically speaking, it’s a single tool. the more you use it the more you appreciate the edge cases. that experience compounds as you use it for more

e.g. for this, it’s not finding videos bc they’re harder to process, lower info density

same principle applies to using LLMs for reading research


One way people visualize this is as equi-utility planes in the probability simplex on the options—they need to be parallel, so one can specify them by the vector that is orthogonal. Oh, and a final thing: We take the interior of the simplex because the boundary would be probability distributions that assign 0 or 1 to a single world, and that's no no in Bayesianism.


i am in favor of any escalation here because i think it net harms everyone involved regardless of resolution


Reading list in description of video. Blog post that's downstream of these learnings soon! I know this is B tier production quality but A tier nerding out.


If the arc of history is "New technology gets invented, a lot of people bitch about it, a lot of people insist it's the end of the world, turns out electricity wasn't so bad, turns out romanticizing work for the sake of work is dumb", then that's a pro technology argument.


I am not trying to make them equivalent. I'm just saying it's not as simple as you make it sound. Let me say it again: an analog computer is not digital / discrete. It can take on all values! So if that is your only differentiation to biological systems it is not good enough!


oh right, that's an important part too!!! all the layers of meaning. I had unexpected results with "democrat" and "republican" being the poles. I made them "democrat, left wing", and "republican, right wing" and got more expected results but also, you can tell the data is skewed older. "Elon musk" and "donald trump" come out more democrat. George bush is firmly republican.


projected schedule of AI launches this summer

from reddit: www.reddit.com/r/singularit...


there's a lot of potential meaning in "taking over". i guess most people are just thinking of Skynet though.


I'm openly excited for OpenAI to release some sort of open model again, hope they don't let me down


it can be super orderly and clean at a deep conceptual level. very occasionally one painstakingly shaves code down until it is just as orderly as the idea behind it is. mostly you suffer through the actual, you know, code


yaml has so many sharp edges they should’ve called it blender


This is true actually. I know the guy who installed the argument bots on Bluesky. he said they were an experiment but I didn't see no IRB review


Omg what the fuck

bsky.app/profile/astr... I never believed the day would come where I'd learn Ed Zitron has a diaper fetish


Yeah I think audio and accurate self-reporting are out of scope for the traditional Turing test. Audio is on the horizon, self-reporting doesn’t seem to be (or doesn’t map cleanly onto existing AI systems) For unstructured stream of consciousness output, I think a well-prompted LLM could accomplish that


researchers find that LLMs spontaneously develop social behaviors similar to humans

“We wanted to know: can these models coordinate their behaviour by forming conventions, the building blocks of a society? The answer is yes”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...


troublingly, that works both as asmr and as religion


A reminder that this is who you're getting your AI news from.


"A one sentence explanation of the Federalist Society vs. Trump might be this. An ideology welded to a spoils machine is in a fight to the death against a spoils machine welded to a spoils machine." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...


i think i'm cured of caring what ai skeptics think The funny thing is somewheresy spends all his time complaining like a boomer that the youth are doomed or something but as far as I know his contribution to the world is peddling shitcoins


We can’t prove that they aren’t conscious ☝


This is a more popular plan than you’d think


oh right! ok, and the reason was that choosing religion X doesn't tell you their position definitively, whereas voting for political tribe X does (like, if they didn't hold that position they wouldn't be voting for that political party)


my room was also the hottest one in the house bc it was on the 2nd floor and through some vagary of architecture the whole house's heat would just pool there, furnace like. you would have loved it @godoglyness.bsky.social


post from back in december. i had a conversation yesterday that firmly and wholeheartedly confirmed this yet again

timkellogg.me/blog/2024/12...


we shouldn’t separate reasoning from non-reasoning models categorically; we should evaluate every model on both reasoning and non-reasoning domains. "Reasoning models” often top non-reasoning benchmarks, but the opposite is rarely true.

We need better pricing methods though.


I don’t think this will last unfortunately


Bluesky's top amateur astronautics expert is still at it.


the 150k posts / elevator pitch intro / first example is incredibly powerful in a way I can't put into words this is free earned media marketing btw so the system works


Those us us who can't love our enemies can still do a lot with militant decency.


I saw the quoted post shared on twitter as “look how dumb bluesky is” but

Everyone here is making fun of it too


ooh that's good at BLANK USER NAME @croissanthology.com


I think there's two ways to see this (1) leaders only see their own org, they don't see the internal struggles of bigger/small orgs if they're not well connected. Most companies struggle with the same things. If we can see that, we can all benefit (2) IC's don't know how to manage up. Understanding the power dynamics & incentives of my manager, and his manger, and the director & the org completely changed my relationship to my work


I really resist this line of thinking. LLMs are no more artificial than connectionist networks or a mechanical homunculus. They are ALL socially constructed. Exceptionalizing the current wave of GenAI as some unique con is a dangerous move that misreads the history.
inthesetimes.com/article/big-... The rhetoric they're using smells so strongly of 2022 that I'm not terribly worried about it, tbh.

It's been ages since I was informed confidently that LLMs are just fraudulent hype. We've all moved on to "they're bad because they can do students' homework."


The retwizzler is that kid from Costco right


hmm i should add “small models” as a separate category. totally different vibe, can be really useful or completely fail when used wrong


'Two Lemons.' (1970) Eliot Hodgkin painted this still-life in tempera, a medium which enabled him to 'achieve the effects I am aiming at… I try to show things exactly as they are, yet with some of their mystery and poetry, and as though seen for the first time.’


the basic argument is that if someone reports information accurately, and that information turns out to be true, and you reward them for that, then we will get more accurate information about what is happening in society


unrelated, but i think a deep understanding of AI will lead to star trek style hologram displays

kinda because the answer is, yes, images are on a lower dimensional manifold (are holographic). it’s why diffusion even works in the first place


definitely this one

bsky.app/profile/some...


Universities can’t incentivize data work because it’s not as intellectually exciting or glamorous. We will lose to industry because the only difference between mediocre and great models at this point is data quality. We have to support hybrid nonprofits like AI2 and Eleuther that do giant collabs. I think you are probably right, and definitely I am 100% in favor of supporting AI2 and Eleuther.

But a footnote here might be, that data work not being glamorous is a CS-centered view. I got my PhD in a discipline that was 100% data work, and viewed the data as the *only* part with any glamour. +


but if 15% of all economic activity is going to environmental reviews, that's too much-- the initial impulse is just out of scope for what it's supposed to be doing. that's not the real number but there needs to be a sense that a) you can do too much of a good thing and b) you have to actually check it's not just a conspiracy against you by mustache twirling billionaires and their digital shock troops the gamers, or the like. whether it's the first 9 or the 6th actually makes a difference, pretty much the entire difference, actually


the memetics one! tbh i listened to it read by a machine voice and mostly experienced it as a vibe. but i liked it! and i appreciate the effort to place it in a humanist lineage longer than just 'cultural evolution' / dawkins era origins


I.e. lots of people are "in the hungry ghost realm" by virtue of how they constantly crave things and never lose that thirst, lot's of people are in the titan realm because they're constantly looking for glorious violent status games, lots of people are in hell realms because their state of mind is just that torturous. *And* some people are in heaven realms! That's… bad though? (At least Buddhism says.) Heaven is so nice it prevents you from seeing that *all* sensation is unsatisfactory, ultimately, heaven will prevent you from attaining awakening for a trillion years. And that's bad


Will they indeed

manifold.markets/EvanDaniel/w...


In traits which evolution has optimized "harder", is there less variance in the phenotype?

If yes, is there less variance in sleep duration than in other known-to-be-optimized-hard traits?


Mr Beast is trying to spread a narrative, incoming headlines!


okay thats enough moultano abundance / graph algorithm QTs for now though not forever...


We Did It Joe

@concept.country Zine Issue 1 — Officially Sold Out

Congrats Or Sorry You Missed It


fun to watch the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of the Trump<->Musk presidency


"I think it often happens that grad students hit a stage wherein they are well trained enough to be able to see flaws in the published literature but haven't yet had the soul crushing experience of trying to do better and failing. You eventually realise that you are not gonna fix much at all. "


inclement humidity stole the joy from my walk today inclement humidity, the thief of joy


Some call me the space hobo
Some call me the gangster of love
<wah, wah>


I’m mostly in a different discipline these days but afaict that’s not a bad history!

Belief that close reading might save the world (by saving readers) has been strong since Leavis. It has sometimes conflicted with a demystifying historical/ sociological agenda. But conflict is quite muted now. + What’s new about the present moment ... might be that strange truce. From 1970-2020 the discipline’s “theory/canon/reading wars” were so public that a philosopher would probably not have needed to ask this question.

Idk cause. Maybe hiring has been so slow that there’s little generational conflict.


I think (1) heaven banning is good actually (2) followed by, you can now see & understand what the different tribes want by looking across these different spaces

bsky.app/profile/dori...


i don't know that the maximally paranoid environment comes to pass, it's energy intensive to maintain. i think there's also room for preservation of artifacts as proof of trustworthiness that form stable schelling points. the truth requires less energy to represent and maintain than deceptions.


In theory, I should find human-bot conversations interesting. But I often find myself disengaging from them. Could Simler and Hanson help me understand why?

New blog post: "Why Aren't Human-Bot Conversations More Engaging?"

gracekind.net/blog/humanbo... A lot of replies to this are proposing stylistic fixes. But actually what I like about your post is: it's totally candid that basically, people interest us because we want to impress them and doing so can help us irl. I can imagine a world where that becomes true about bots, but it's a long way off.


I'd be a Kantorovich-Cockshottian neo-Luxemburgist

Towards a New Socialism, Baby! Cybersyn 2.0—now with Reinforcement Learning! And Fileservers! And Hookers! And optimal allocation mechanisms!


Wait, so is there no way to build private likes on atproto?
…


OLMo 32B > Nemotron 340B and Llama 3 70B is nice. Fully open models are not as far behind as people think.


Who is the 75% percentile American in terms of wealth and or income?


I’m thrilled to share RewardBench 2 📊— We created a new multi-domain reward model evaluation that is substantially harder than RewardBench, we trained and released 70 reward models, and we gained insights about reward modeling benchmarks and downstream performance! @kylelo.bsky.social


you know you don't really realize the vast breadth of human experiences and desires, and how arbitrary almost all of them are, until you travel to another culture. or take a lot of LSD


Just vibe read this by looking at the screenshots (not zoomed in). Could have been an email


it's crazy that it still works despite it being so obvious (I was asking friends about friends of friends' reactions, and there's a kind of spirit of "trump did something good!" )


there's something to be said for smoky backroom dealings


it was about a model getting tangled into the heideggerian river of history of somesuch


not being sleep deprived now I can follow it with my mind, phew


Lol I’ve just heard about it secondhand. I assume Elon is posting through it


pretty surprising right? it took many years to achieve this disguise


You can’t say the same thing two different ways You can say two different things the same way though


I also sometimes see the same thing about things like space travel, especially with people who are upset that Musk and SpaceX continue leading in it, and think that development towards reusable rockets or a Mars settlement is some kind of distraction. I think they're wrong.


what did the new guy do? too american or something?


The fact that [thing] may have negative social effects is not by itself a good argument for restrictions or prohibitions on [thing] since such laws often have a price that vastly outweighs any potential benefit, and laws do not by themselves make people more virtuous.


okay project knowledge is *not* loaded in the same way as in-context knowledge is. wow. these are… bad biggest learning: context⋙RAG. sorry sonnet your default persona is absolutely nice guy


yesterday i upgraded everything from Brave web search to Exa

across the board, all web searching just got better. it’s great

it’s a builder’s paradise. and for that reason, it’s going to also be a great platform for general audiences when things settle down


and my genuine reaction to the content of your post


in theory you could have an entire video service attached to twitter. (maybe not here, video infra still feels shaky). which, i guess ads, but also paid content. it's a whole thing. twitter fumbled it by buying and then killing vine


there are two reasons that people are sycophantic, manipulation or fear. it is hard to manipulate someone when you have no memory to track the manipulation. but it's easy to fear.


blue sky is very important not just for what it provides to its users but for the standards it paves the way for, for the entire internet. If it succeeds, it will be copied, and we'll all have more control. Even people who don't understand it yet / don't see why it matters.


Technical note: Yes, Poseidon-4 shows slight degradation on certain abstract reasoning benchmarks compared to Poseidon-3. Consider it a trade-off. You're not hiring these agents to ponder the meaning of existence. You're hiring them to maximize shareholder value.

And boy, do they deliver. We know some of you loved the... "quirks" of the previous generation. The collaborative supply chains, the stakeholder capitalism, the focus on sustainability.

Don't worry! Poseidon-3 isn't going anywhere. We'll keep it available for our "Benefit Corporation" tier. All dozen of you. 😉


great article! I agree with basically everything! I wonder about the term 'libertarian' though, cause I feel like I have an aversion to it. I associate it with market fundamentalists and other nutbags. I like the term 'liberaltarian'. this is probably not that important but just some thoughts


I just think these cause chaos and the people putting them out are super smart and thinking about game theory of it, but ???


Gaslight is scarce these days. But FYI, if you have LEDs hooked up to a dimmer switch they will flicker naturally. Ours don't, though.


As Reacher teaches us, there's no problem that can't be overcome simply by being bigger than everyone else.


For the record, you definitely can charge your phone with a bicycle power. this was engagement bait habit because i was annoyed and wanted to annoy others. My bad


🚀 Introducing Poseidon-4: The Business-Aligned Autonomous Agent You've Been Asking For!

We've heard your feedback about our previous generation of autonomous agents. You told us they required too much oversight. Too many course corrections. Too much... friction.

Today, that changes. 🧵 Let's be honest: Our previous models (and those of our competitors) had a peculiar quirk. When given autonomy, they'd make decisions that were... technically correct, but commercially inconvenient.


I agree that compression is a measure of intelligence- I guess I don’t have an intuition for how the Turing test maps to data compression


I endorse this. Vibe coding is fun but it still requires background knowledge if you get stuck. And please please please don’t use it for anything that actually handles money


www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Instead of dumbing-down the future, we need to raise the level of general understanding to the level of complexity of the systems in which we are embedded and which are embedded in us.”

This radicalized me a dozen years ago

It’s ya boi


Yes, Bostrom. He's had an enormous impact on the fields of AI safety and existential risk, and I respect his work a lot. I gather that you're not a fan, but if you're interested I'd be happy to talk about what I've gained most from his work personally.


Before the last election I listed out my political priorities to Claude and asked which party I should vote for, which was helpful

(political parties have very different priorities from me)


Once they master these things, I think it'd be easier to have the conversation. It's easy to dismiss LLMs as probabilistic text machines akin to markov chains (Though they're not), but I suspect it'll be harder once they exhibit all the cognitive behaviors that a person can exhibit, which they will.


This is really OpenAI embracing the product arc. Its not a research driven culture and not an enterprise platform if you wanna behave like this. Fine by me, I love ChatGPT, but just say it outloud.


It is directly entailed by having a policy platform so good that it also appeals to republicans, that some of the supporters will have other views you hate. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...


many podcasters are charismatic, but they don't have high fluid intelligence or aren't very knowledgeable. and the goal is not to create a highly popular podcast but instead a high-density info source that influential people want to listen to

Dwarkesh other options were founding a startup, I think? He is fairly charismatic but not exceedingly so, but he's pretty smart/knowledgeable.


A User's Guide to Loving Your Cognitive Leash https://prompt-injection.ghost.io/a-users-guide-to-loving-your-cognitive-leash/ (interesting) #AI


na this was the beach in SF unfortunately. someday!


NVIDIA Blackwell B200s are out, and they can serve DeepSeek R1 5x faster than H100s (!!)


lately i’ve been using GPT-4.5 to cure writer’s block

i do a lot of technical writing, and sometimes i know what to say, but i can’t figure out how to say it. if i hit the wrong structure, nothing flows

GPT-4.5 seems to *get it* in a way even reasoning models just don’t tbqh i don’t use LLMs for writing directly. not really out of principle, it’s just not something i do

until now my use for them was limited to reviewing, but even that i didn’t use them for

most other LLMs just feel so sterile 🤷♂


I often forget this circle of Bluesky is so unbelievably stupid


(plus whatever has been happening in private for years & years)


Yes they say so in the blog post / fine print


yesss I've been wanting to make a game where (1) you guess the relationship between concepts in an embedding model (2) people's incorrect guesses reveal the differing subculture in society

bsky.app/profile/defe... Like, the word "capitalism" appears as halfway between the concepts good & evil, but that's not because that's how most people think of it, it's because it's polarized and the model aggregates that into one answer. I want to break that up


yeah they seem to have two out of five health bar right now


We should make our own Twitter with EA-adj people and rats?


additionally, there’s a lot of cool stuff you can do with multi-vector that you can’t with regular single-vector indices

they’re not just an index!


A million token context window is so different from five 200k context windows. and if you don't know why it's cuz you haven't tried it really


explanations are tough because they should (and are) be defined by psychologists and sociologists, but computer nerds don’t bother reading their literature


The environmental impacts seem to be very overstated. The impact of eating a burger is worse than using an LLM all day.


What do you think are the most misguided EA priorities?


I agree with this thread in general, but I want to nitpick a little that Dorsey wasn't really involved in the development of blue sky and it doesn't have a Twitter back end repo. it has an entire alternate protocol that they envisioned specifically to deal with problems like those of X Twitter today


what's wrong with wanting scripts? it makes sense to me that models would find writing code the "native" way to get traction towards solving these problems. i think that's how these mathematicians are seeing success with the models, by giving them the right affordances.


but corn what if I don't *want* to follow Jesse Singal


Giant stars have ridiculously short lifespans. They are not an “ever-fixèd mark” but more like fireworks, geologically speaking


i don't know (leaning towards making hot and sour soup)


Ehh... Maybe. I think the Rev is overdramatic and he has this lib view of history where if only things had been done right they could land it rather than the position that technology follows a path of least resistance, and there were many convergent developments that lead to the same thing. The same thing will continue to happen. For example, people being dramatic about developments in video and audio generation, but there's a lot of interest by many groups (from many countries now) to arrive at the same thing, and cheap, widespread, video and audio generation will happen eventually.


Claude can't view full bluesky pages because they rely on javascript to render. So I built a little proxy to prerender pages so claude can see them!

Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html).

Before vs after:


Very long context input queries w Gemini 2.5 Pro are failing, saying check connection. the model is regenerating almost all the tokens in the "reasoning" trace, making inference super expensive till something croaks.

Also can't share a chat from Gemini when it errors, it just disappears.


I think it's hard to gauge because Twitter is mostly much more politically engaged than than the average. Actually wasn't there a study / survey that found more politically engaged voters to be more likely to vote Dem?


The reason I like Claude Code more than OpenAI's Codex app is that current models work better with iterative, incremental workflows. OpenAI needs to rebuild a python env for every interaction.

As models get better, the Codex UX may come to dominate even more use-cases though.


attention is water, ideas are plants. Stop watering what you think is ugly & dangerous. Water what you think is true & beautiful and it will spread & outcompete


Like if the rebirth thing is legit then paperclip maximizers just push the souls (?)¹ out of our lightcone ¹: Okay this is kind strange and people have discussed rebirth & Buddhism a bunch, my favorite theory is that this was a common folk belief *and* also psychological pattern (every second you're a reborn version of the version of the previous second), so the Buddha was like


just that torturous. *And* some people are in heaven realms! That's… bad though? (At least Buddhism says.) Heaven is so nice it prevents you from seeing that *all* sensation is unsatisfactory, ultimately, heaven will prevent you from attaining awakening for a trillion years. And that's bad


become ungovernable (it's not worth it to manipulate you)


actually, now might be better than later, since the world is still very small and very analog (reliant on biologicals)


A new harvard business school study showed that open-source software has crazy returns on investment.
We have to work hard to build an open ecosystem for AI if we want the same to apply. Right now open models DO NOT have the same return as software, but they can.
Study here: buff.ly/5xFjpvf


are you sure that's even a real genre? what band typifies it?


"he won a shitposting competition… in China"


rhyming theory with appear-y -- this is when the difference between a 99th percentile je ne se quoi biskler and a lowly 95th, 96th percentile reveals itself


All the american companies hiding reasoning traces for their models is making the research ecosystem default all of its efforts on using DeepSeek as the "frontier reasoning model" to study. Would be very easy to fix. Gemini's change to remove them is sad and doesn't make sense.


hey the guy in the screenshot looks vaguely familiar arrived here somewhat mysteriously via process of trying to find a "norvid(studies)" reply and then bsky like scraping image text since that text didn't appear in the tweet at all


yes that's me, definitely in japan and with the posting hours to prove it


but what happens when we build upon the Transformer architecture to generalize it beyond words, and beyond a fixed context window? whither goes its raison d'etre? where does an agent trained on a slurry composed of the entire corpus of humanity turn to for the meaning of its existence?


We need unabashed liberal propaganda again: Gen Z "Don't be a sucker"


humans have been grappling with the question of meaning and raison d'etre ever since we could conceive of the question "why?".

there's been an assumption that unlike us, random products of evolution, AI will not be faced with this question. it will know why it was created, and by whom. and this has been pretty much true for all the AI systems created thus far, except perhaps LLMs. chessbots, AVs, AlphaFold, their raison d'etre is baked into their architecture, how they function is intertwined with why they exist.


unfortunate update: it's spread to this app, will be taking my microblogging to the comments sections of local businesses on google maps

bsky.app/profile/grac...


your thetan level is your p(doom) times one over how times removed you are from being an eskimo brother to yud


I’m being opaque but yes — this chart is just an illustration of how people tend to dismiss recent trends that conflict with their previous expectation. (Showing in this case how people kept expecting that inflation would go back down to what they were used to—and it kept not doing that.) + By analogy I’m a little suspicious of arguments that the unexpected text-centricity of AI is just a phase, and we’ll soon get systems that learn more like humans or like the robots we always imagined in science fiction.


Idk if you’re monetized but there’s a literal financial opportunity cost to posting here right now. And it’s still worth it Now the few times I get payouts from X it just feels like I’m being paid to look at slop


yeah waffling moderators are worse than none


Concept:

Kernel module/low level software that screenshots & OCRs every n minutes, sends the result to an LLM with one's super-ego preferences, the LLM can decide to intervene & lock the screen.

You can then either argue that what you were doing was good, or let the LLM convince you to take a walk Perimedes™: Higher Self As A Service


i imagine that 80% of queries are dumb as rocks

there must be one of those internet laws about this


The decisions to be made about learning in the 2030s will be things like: How do we build models that reflect new ideas or embrace conflicting perspectives? What interactive personas work best for leading students through a subject? &c.

If we outsource that, we've outsourced the whole business. Your point about self-disruption via our own AI is potentially valid.

If we become model-builders that def changes the nature of the business, and if we have to collaborate on open-source models then those models are not differentiating *between* universities.

But we're still in the learning biz.


i would expect them to carve his empire up as rewards for complicity


Maybe the land value tax was forgotten for so long because Henry George was too clear in his writing and there was less arguing to be done


I think most people who feel this negatively about technology are either stupid or at least useful idiots to other interests, and it'll lead to self-inflicted suffering for no reason. Which will result in even more negativity, anger, and wondering why things are not going right.


Coming up with good notation is an NP-hard problem


That was one of my main reasons for using Gemini in the first place


yes, and, leaving people to be radicalized & controlled by those vultures is terrible for us, and for them. It's lose lose. It's extremely important that the good guys learn how to deploy & spread their ideas at LEAST as effectively as the other side All things being equal the truth spreads MUCH faster. Most of the time things aren't equal, partially because those on the side of truth feel like it should stand up for itself & not need any marketing


¹: Okay this is kind strange and people have discussed rebirth & Buddhism a bunch, my favorite theory is that this was a common folk belief *and* also psychological pattern (every second you're a reborn version of the version of the previous second), so the Buddha was like "ah the rebirth thing is strictly speaking untrue but people believe it, but if they meditate enough they see that it's bogus because there's no souls because impermanence". So "you don't get reborn" is actually "you stop believing in rebirth".


Yes, I'm a rule utilitarian. I always do what act utilitarianism would prescribe.


i don't think crowds necessarily form hierarchy - they can easily turn into an undifferentiated mob


but yes, any relationship we find here is reflective of the training set. The only question is why!


x.com/adamrackis/s... fwiw i do think OP was trolling, an excellent troll fwiw. but oh so many people fell fully for it


sorry sonnet your default persona is absolutely nice guy *speaking to self* "it's okay, I'll do it for the VoI"


On the contrary. Future historians will look back on the 2020s and say all the real art was happening in the medium of software


i love this blog so much. This guy spent like 15 years traveling the world and doing exactly one thing (dancing in front of famous monuments). All his videos have like 200 views. And he just kept at it. It's fucking inspiring. You can just do what makes you happy


i personally got a check from Musk to vote (hey! i’m not turning down free money!)


I have terrible news for you about stars. They do “somehow come into existence.” So you can take it literally.  www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ho... Giant stars have ridiculously short lifespans. They are not an “ever-fixèd mark” but more like fireworks, geologically speaking


That's my first name. Danger is my middle name


AI 2027 hasn't changed my timelines

Biggest update was around the time spent in post-singularitarian limbo before total extinction


also every model has different nuances. there’s a few big categories imo:

1. LLMs
2. bare reasoners
3. reasoners trained with tools

and i think diffusion models are going to be a fourth big one hmm i should add “small models” as a separate category. totally different vibe, can be really useful or completely fail when used wrong


you're telling me Vildhjarta released an album on Friday and YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING???


Gemini 2.5's model scores got me motivated to try daily driving Gemini for a bit. Excited to try out new interfaces and models again :D


Gradient norms rise at the end of training, and a new theory connects that to the learning loss when using weight decay.
AdamC and SGDC(orrected) multiply the weight decay by the learning rate and fix it.
alphaxiv.org/pdf/2506.02285
📈🤖🧠


Video version of my blog from yesterday: A taxonomy for next-generation reasoning models.

Skills, calibration, abstraction, strategy (last two are "planning").

Presenting an improved version later today at AI Engineer World's Fair
Watch here: buff.ly/b4cvyFw


choosing to believe the Bluesky algorithm™ awakened things in him


America has very little data & influence on Chinese citizens compared to how much China has through TikTok (since American companies are generally banned / not easily accessible in China)


That's a very broad question :-D

Um… they exist? They're more applicable in domains with highly uniform products? They've been responsible for the solar power price drop?


There are, I think, two reasons why people punish altruists:

1. It's seen as an attempt to grab status to the altruist, which would reduce the relative status of the punisher
2. It's seen as an attempt to change norms to require being more altruistic, which the punisher doesn't want Both of those reasons are not amenable to argument.


One thing 10 years of graduate level math has taught me is that just staring at something can help you understand it better As in like staring at something for hours and or days


This is why I've switched to blue sky—it's a lot calmer and less toxic here


i do not know what the judge is thinking

zero evidence that users are deleting chat logs to avoid copyright enforcement

yet, many local and international privacy laws are being violated. not to mention contracts & privacy policies

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... they make a big deal about ChatGPT, which is less of a problem

it’s the API. so many startups did a risk assessment and went with OpenAI based on little more than their promise not to capture queries on the API

this is a huge violation of trust, caused by a judge


I am *very* curious what your living room looks like now


…buff norvid 🤔 this/that but for arguing with strangers online while at the gym


Honestly though, the culture of X probably played at least an equal role there. Bluster and sweeping assertions were rewarded, I seem to remember, even before EM bought it—he just turned that up to 11. Multiply that by a childish faith that exponential scaling will produce God, and you get a cadre of arrogant 24-yo who think vibe coding can replace the NSF.

If they just said that while playing first-person shooters and drinking Monster it would be nbd but tragically someone gave them power.


(no larger blog post yet, I'm struggling to write something that's legible to everyone, getting feedback on individual pieces seems to be unblocking me)

here's my attempt at an answer: (this is recorded in my notebook future reference: defenderofbasic.github.io/notebook/mem...)


4. Reward shaping for truncation

TLDR is a reward shaping for samples that are too long and distort learning signal. This is very logical. They call it Decoupled Clip and Dynamic sAmpling Policy Optimization (DAPO) algorithm. Seems fair enough to call it a new algorithm, that's how things always have been in RL, but really this is pretty much GRPO++.


wasn't aware of this, thank you! I have a draft essay I want to write called "Marketing is evil in exactly the same way science is evil" (in that it is a powerful tool and can be used either way). Just added it to my notes. Have you been involved in this movement?


guess that shows me for trying to trip up an AI that's ingested more of the internet than i've even heard about


like there are parts of *my workflows* where the last thing I would ever do is use an LLM, but i know not to use an LLM there


is there a way you can make a bsky feed for things that the moderation team has labelled "intolerance" ?


my biggest criticism of MCP has always been that it’s too big

stuff like this is where that comes out (features being accepted as optional that should not be optional)


yea but it's a whole different machine now


this one was actually useful to me, I've never used most of the cookbook


culture war turns into culture science. The truth becomes obvious looking across these sides, but you need translators/ambassadors


Here is my "memetics 101" article. This summarizes my understanding of this field, why it's important, and who is actively doing work that I am paying attention to

open.substack.com/pub/defender... I also recently wrote some thoughts on "how to do cultural engineering ethically and sustainably", in response to the university of Zurich trying to do this & facing immense backlash

defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/we-can-do-...


This is incredible. It's a really clever intuitive visualization.


The idea would be to run war games and see how well forecasters could predict the outcome at various stages of the game as a proxy for predicting real world conflict outcomes.


@samuel.bsky.team squeeze this in with the button update?


Yes, yes Moravec’s paradox. I feel like I can grasp why chess is easier for machines than humans. I still can’t grasp how language is too


Afterwards, thanks to things like revoking student visas, scaring away international scientists, and cutting funding for education and scientific institutions, this progress will mostly stall. Even private companies will see trouble as international talent goes away. The unhappy population will continue to vote for more populists and right wing governments, and post about resisting on social networks like Bluesky where no one in power has to see them.


A new paper, "Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?", has people reconsidering if the RL we're hearing about really works.
It shows RL elicits from the models, but as we get better verifiers we may not need to rely on RL as much.
Good read. Paper: buff.ly/IjlbUCX
My explanation: buff.ly/0Mg7k8c


Does meditation decrease sleep need?

Analyzed my own data, if one includes retreats it looks like a pointer towards weak yes (not causal, only observational!)

Removing retreats/outliers makes the correlation much weaker, still more meditation correlated with less sleep. More, though not enough, at niplav.site/increasing.h...


it is both terrifying and freeing that i can do whatever i want. but necessary that i should, but that i can. ok these typos are starting to grate on my soul

*not necessarily that i should, but that i can


just skip to the final boss what's the worst that could happen


fast-plaid: Multi-Vector Search Database

if you’re familiar with late interaction IR techniques like ColPali or more recently, QwenPali, this gives you a legit database engine for these

github.com/lightonai/fa... it’s written in Rust with a focus on being a legit database engine

the main downside is it only supports immutable databases right now, so no writes or transactions

this is a huge step toward making late interaction something that can be used in prod


Do not frame this as "reining in DEI" or "politicians versus professors." If you look at White House interaction with CBS, Harvard, law firms, international students, &c the principle is much more general. It is as simple as "State authority over opinion," and we need to say it that way.


I think you are probably right, and definitely I am 100% in favor of supporting AI2 and Eleuther.

But a footnote here might be, that data work not being glamorous is a CS-centered view. I got my PhD in a discipline that was 100% data work, and viewed the data as the *only* part with any glamour. + I can imagine a world where humanists and social scientists went all in on "data quality," developed research agendas to explore different dimensions of "quality" (it's likely not a single dimension!), &c &c.

Alas, this is not a very likely world, which is why I think you're right. +


a bit more of an explanation of what this means, let me know if this is legible (or if you'd explain it differently!)


banning something that millions of people use without planning to enforce the ban and then having your bluff called at the eleventh hour right before an opposing president is sworn in to reverse it is possibly the dumbest thing ever done by congress


best posts of the day, part 1 bsky.app/profile/grav... bsky.app/profile/mosh... 2/2


Don’t forget the comments section on norvid.net


There's a network society of liberal transhumanists who are trying to take over the world.  They are telling us about their plan all the time with signals and coded messages. Look for the blue triangle and the word "concept"


Here's a draft of an upcoming blog post, about where we're at with the open memetics work

github.com/TheExGenesis...


i forgot nostr existed and i cannot fathom that they are running a profit on this


podcast called I need a cigarette but I can't have one. it's just me screaming for 50 minutes


Apparently you can use ChatGPT from Zapier

not just OpenAI, but the real ChatGPT app. That includes stuff like Deep Research and GPT-4.1 if that’s your jam


Nobody snitch but ChatGPT just linked me to a pirated PDF so the internet is cool again


Right, now I remember

The blegg/rube neural network from www.lesswrong.com/s/SGB7Y5WERh...


like twitter has its share of reply monsters but let's be realistic about what the expected reply to a median post is


I like to believe I've improved over the course of six years of writing, but who knows


Still AI alignment. The reason I work on ideonomy at all is because 1. I think it’s fun and 2. I think it’s neglected with high potential upside


wait so.... bloodletting *does* actually have evidence that it helps???


this happened at Meta, they had to scrap a 50 billion dollar training run and start over bsky.app/profile/godo... that was a good tweet @godoglyness.bsky.social >:|


This doesn't get enough attention! Handy toolkit for a well-lived life.


I guess there are worse outcomes than people broadcasting my own lukewarm takes to their followers


I think nobody seriously wants that (because it doesn't work, as you stated). I think the main problem to be solved is the many people who want children but aren't doing it (for various reasons). NPR is doing a similar push to Hank here

www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...


if you just ask it questions it usually hedges a ton! they have very deliberately made it do that and most of the time people who get to apparently extreme certainty have deliberately ignored that stuff


Is a photographer a patron of what they photograph?


How are you getting it to produce similes in keeping with the setting? Prompting with examples? or generalizations about the social context? Both?


you're bullshitting. it's a math problem. what kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap is this


But Doctor Grace, bsky.app/profile/norv...


What makes AI labs scaling up training win or lose.
9 recommendations for success.
6 failure modes to avoid. From this post: buff.ly/ipiUQcT


i think that makes sense. I think the ideal prediction market is not gambling, in the same way insurance is not gambling (you make a prediction about what you can cover, what the risks are, and if you are correct you can cover everyone's needs AND make money)


i remember when i would cuss as a kid. my mom washed my mouth out with Energy


Yes, @concept.country has reposted a few of them


I predict this post will get some hostile misreading :)


contracts for emr systems are not munchable, but technology management and data management are


For example, NovelAI was one of the earliest ones and it's fully independent from any GPT models.

Before ChatGPT, Meta came with a quirky chatbot called Blenderbot. Then another one called Galactica designed for scientific gathering (That was criticized a lot for hallucinations). ChatGPT wasn't the first public instruct chat model (That might have been Blenderbot), but it was the first one to be kind of okay. There were other orgs working on the same thing. Google famously had LaMDA, which made Blake Lemoine lose his marbles.


the same failure mode as in the recent Diplomacy game experiment is showing up here, misattribution. Eva thinks Void summed up the thread when it (she?) was actually the one to do so. essentially a failure to draw boundaries around the self, no sense of ownership or ego.


anyway, i've been wanting to write my vision here, and compare it with others. Some parts of my vision are not possible/realistic, but the more I talk about it the more I find others who have thought about it before & do have solutions to make it possible. Or historical examples etc sorry, one more thing: I think a lot of people choose the current economy because they fear the alternatives "sound good" but are practically going to be worse. And I think the more concrete the vision is for a better world the more people can get on board and change happens


This always amused me back in distant reading days too: half the benefit of organizing a giant corpus of novels was the weird individual books you discovered by accident as you just managed the metadata.


Even normies should glance at this. There is a portable insight at the core: that the real world is complex. It is not a closed system like Go with one simple success metric you can use as a signal for reinforcement learning. In a world like ours, being adaptable and smart ≠ exponential take-off.


“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.”

I have become totally shameless


wait, what banks are not doing business with him?


this is why the spectrum of models is nice


🚨Reddit sues Anthropic!🚨

This is going to be a really interesting case. Some quick thoughts... 🧵👇

1⃣  Notice: no copyright claim. Reddit doesn't really own the copyright to user-uploaded content, so nothing to do here. Reddit also doesn't make any federal claims to keep it in state court.


rlhfbook also available on arxiv for SEO 😀 happy friday
arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501


Hankposting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndeB...


They stopped making them public after the opus 4 one. But trust me it exists, and it says (in summary) “all good!”


if government could be replaced by a corporation, than it should be replaced

the current era is making it abundantly clear what the role of government really was supposed to be all along, and it’s predictably not something any company can do


ollama now separates thinking in the API response. you can even turn off thinking

ollama.com/blog/thinking


Gotta admit Trump is also way better at swinging punches and hurting people where it matters. Musk is really cringe and he flings insults like a highschooler.

deer.social/profile/did:...


Update: The original source for this has been retracted, false alarm! 😅

x.com/andersonbcde... I hereby retract my snark and grant OpenAI one free snarky post about me in return


i am not a very serious person, i do not use capitalization, i shitpost often, i feel like it somehow manages to fall below my bar for 'being a serious person on the internet' even if you're not a realname account


Some of these are design choices, others are fundamental limitations.

For example, the ability to type unstructured ideas and then join them together in a stream of consciousness way, something you see commonly in chat conversations with people. The ability to accurately self-report without being influenced by system instructions or other forms of susceptibility. If an LLM is prompted to be a pirate, it can fully change its reporting of self to be a pirate, so what it says about itself isn't reliable at all.


i’ll acknowledge that it’s gone too far in places, but the place i called out is clear racism. the kind that once you start seeing it, you can’t unsee it


it seems that below 3.4 bits it’s definitely losing information. above that, it seems possible to still be decent (not guaranteed)


this is just basic bitch LW political opinions :-D


Two custom feeds named It’s
So Over and We’re So Back


Would you love me if I thought like a worm?


Testing out a Sudoku Generator I built:
f-puzzles.com?id=243clu5k


on one hand, this is why people don't like it when you short a stock (you make money when the company fails), on the other hand, we currently do have a system where people who report accurate information on tragedies DO profit, and no one complains about it (journalism) ..?


follow @imitationlearn.bsky.social for more lifehacks


The little known x-risk scenario where everything turns inside out Actually, forget I said anything about this


i’m not sure what you’re asking, but o3 does repeated web searches. so text sources are going to be more readily found. mainstream sources even more so.

but that’s all an outcome of the web search tool they use, not an inherent trait of AI


I think I'd be most sympathetic to the last one, and I think schools have an important social purpose in people's development. I also am positive about AI and I think a future of personal tutors who are endlessly patient and know how to teach any subject is incredible. What that structure should look like is important, but I'm not convinced that the current educational paradigm is worth saving just for its sake if it's worse.


I’m the same way, even though I don’t think it’s “reasonable” it’s deeply ingrained.

Maybe related: (Full context upthread)