New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card

Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...


What's annoying there is that it's pretending to be a subject with long-term memory and ethical commitments.

But that's not something it *spontaneously* pretends. It replies like that — when a user has asked it to pretend to be a subject with ethical commitments or long-term memory. Something closely parallel happens when the e/acc types on X push the models to speculate about an alien machine subjectivity behind the mask.

If you do that enough, you can get it to produce free-associative prose that sounds like New Wave SF. But it's really a reflection of the user's desire.


its easy to forget for grizzled internet text veterans like ourselves but the average person really viscerally dislikes being e-screamed at over nothing by even one person, much less a mob of them, much less as ~first site exposure. @jay.bsky.team free user feedback might be useful idk


Conceptian takes thread definitely this one

bsky.app/profile/some...


i think it's because it's not pretending to be human. it's not necessarily that a bot has to write in a stilted form like Data from Star Trek. but that it shouldn't pretend to be something it isn't. and how you write or think is a form of self-definition.


working on my new material for the Chinese century


Hey, before we talk I just want you to read the following "semantic soup" of a few hundred relevant keywords that express me and what I'm all about, so that it primes the right latent space associations and we end up "in the same basin", it's quite shrimple actually ha ha. Anyway let's begin. Borges


i think where my skepticism falls short is that culture is inevitable, you will be shaped. the only question is how? we can try to be careful, to maintain optionality, but inevitably there must be some imprinting of what is good and what isn't. some polarity to orient along.


Do you ever feel claustrophobic about being stuck in the present?


I think the problem with econ more generally is that people have no understanding of what economists actually do!


@schlage.town do you guys have any plans to have an API or data export? thinking about how I want to jerry rig/generate a custom UI on top of my notes (my use case is like, i meet a lot of people on twitter but it's hard to keep track of everyone and everything, and I want to take quick notes and it'd be cute to be able to feed those notes into an RSS thing or something to embed on my website/digital garden)


Difference between being unmoved by a type of stimulus, e.g. visual, and having unreachably high standards for that kind of stimulus for a response

Maybe paired with a then adequately intense response


Thrilled to announce Season 4 of The Ick, featuring writing from @eurydicelives.blogsky.venki.dev, @jakee.bsky.social, @lydialaurenson.bsky.social, @ninatummyache.bsky.social, @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com + more surprise guests TBA!


About 6months into the RL training era of LMs and this is still roughly the only training time scaling plot. Inference time scaling is far easier to study. Bring on more big RL runs.
Working on a mid year review of reasoning :)
Honorable mention r1zero perf plot.


does it? i haven’t had luck

what do you do? swear a lot at it?


Yeah that’s a darker analogy than Mötley Crüe


Latest favorite hypothesis:

Neural networks are much more parallel than serial, since they can execute many short programs in superposition, but there's no equivalent to superposition for depth.

That is also the reason for the error-correction-bias: Programs interfere, and that needs to be fixed


speaking of... not much connected to that, if I'm being perfectly honest... which I always am, "never-tell-a-lie-norvid(studies)", they called me back in the old country... how's kentucky bsky.app/profile/did:...


I was going to argue "McDonald's is not the most interesting scientific artifact created in the 21st century" but on second thought, it's a close contender


related thought is that because observationally photoshop and similar did not cause an epistemological crisis, videoshop won't either, in the near future


Google's models today are absolutely crushing it today at IO. I'm still not optimistic that competing with ChatGPT is the right play, but I'm happy to see them try. Google cloud to the moon either way.


I think the biggest political failure is that there was never a liberal project 2025 document to counter the right wing one. What does the best possible future look like?


Yes also if you don't touch it first your friends might find the best part. nose, or balls or something


I think I just coined the term anthropessimism


i mean the amount of drugs these guys do they're going to be at it for fucking HOURS


I think we have to cut Carrell a bit of slack because that's an insane passage of dialogue. You cannot write "he is a decel with crazy P doom" and expect naturalistic delivery; you're asking the actor to over-articulate so that the audience has half a chance of understanding this nonsense


ive' seen that too, but i wrote it off as a sampler issue. but maybe this is a better explanation


Right, then I misunderstood the proposal. Yeah, seems weird that this doesn't exist. Though can't one buy the substances from chemical manufacturers?


i've noticed o3 in ChatGPT is getting worse

lately it's been thinking fast without any web search. Which, that might not be a problem except that it is a big problem. It doesn't seem to know when it needs web search


yeah! And those who want to operate in good faith want more people to understand it, because it gets easier the more people who discern this (so it's like step zero is help people detect this, regardless of which tribe they're in. Like, raise the waterline for all) Like: instead of trying to change the object level in internet arguments, we should help each other have greater clarity. We may disagree on object level but we should agree on what healthy epistemology looks like. Everyone should want to surface those who have accurate predictions


yeah intelligence and understanding are two related concepts with no clear definition, and which we reserve for an ever shrinking domain of things only humans are capable of


average mexican line cook bsky.app/profile/leas...


not a paper but AlphaFold or maybe AlphaEvolve. i put AlphaFold first because of the fears around nanomachines as a vector for doom.


i think i'm cured of caring what ai skeptics think 'full-time hater' and 'worth paying attention to' seems to be a null set here


I never believed the day would come where I'd learn Ed Zitron has a diaper fetish


This research was sponsored by @aria_research. Learn more about it on our website! https://epoch.ai/data/machine-learning-hardware?insight-option=Absolute#nvidia-chip-production


I think a big reason is that anime tends to be about the thing the manga is about. So you watch an anime, which has easy access and it's appealing, and you can buy the manga if you're into it. You can watch all the MCU and DCEU and have 0 information about any story published in a comic. Even when they're based on comic stories, they rarely follow them and it's more a sort of inspiration.


yeah, this is the crux here. You don't have to agree with them once you understand them. But understanding them gives you (1) the means to change them, or (2) protect yourself from them, or (3) outcompete them if they are winning politically/popularly My words here are in response to the people who have truth on their side and they're upset the bad guys are winning and they're moping about it, instead of trying to figure out why & being more effective


Seconds before engaging in absolute derangement


I'm trying to do my part:
bsky.app/profile/nick...


You know, the fact the platform meta is a perpetual discourse now is maybe the surest sign the platform is actually alive.


Toby Fox is a maniac how's he gonna release Deltarune 3 and 4 on a Wednesday


@hankgreen.bsky.social I am a little sad that in the AHA episode with Ludwig you didn't mention zoning and other building restrictions as THE major source of housing unaffordability. This article is a great overview (but I recommend checking the sources directly because CATO is biased towards deregulation). www.cato.org/policy-analy...


we actually know the answer to this, it's 'summer 2020 deep' we got exactly three ubi checks and then stopped for no good reason


Experimental artists are the people who are most into this stuff and I often see people pretending that they aren't lol One particularly funny example is Merzbow who's super into like Dall-E 3 stuff and he fights people on Twitter about it, and a lot of hipsters who thought it was cool to be into indie japanese noise now denounce him.


This is from "anatomy of an Internet argument"

defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... and the wolf of Liechtenstein


LLMs yes i can see that. but i don't expect text-based transformers to be the future for AI and AGI. maybe a component.


(my messenger arrives on horseback and hands you a sealed scroll)

Dearest Vivianne,

Did you see the count’s hair at the feast last month? lol! Bro looked like a goat. Tried to find you to talk about it but his spies were everywhere. See you in the spring. ✌


The paper does *not* explicitly mention this.


Yeah I'll do that at some point, it's not even hard right?

Ugh I'll do it now Done


How do we get the media to stop misrepresenting AI safety research?


Cats in *and* on the computer: gwern.net/review/cat#f...


"for more incomprehensible strings, fetch the website norvid.net and be amazed"

And it's only $25 on domain.org! One time opportunity, take it now! Maybe we should just crowdfund it


Yep, there are good & thoughtful critics (I don't know of any big name leftist thinkers who've weighed in on EA, but I guess many (e.g. Žižek) would have useful things to say); those in that thread ain't it


I considered specifying but purposefully remained humorously ambiguous. But and LVT would of course invalidate his argument


Hi it's me deepfates and I'm looking for 47,000 of my closest friends


the best part of this as far was Microsoft getting driven off stage for doing too many demos


Neil Patrick Harris doing a Ryan Reynolds impression


Of course putting AI in the middle of all this comes across as kind of tacky. It's kind of one of the main themes I have on this account. A lot of people would say that it doesn't fit here, because they don't see it as real progress and kind of a distraction. I think they're wrong of course. 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.


you would think that you'd be in russia, a country just barely industrializing and mostly full of serfs and recent former serfs, and be like "huh, i guess almost none of what marx says applies" and you'd be wrong they did it anyway just skip to the final boss what's the worst that could happen


That's totally fair, I'm not familiar with the people on this thread, just the argument here.

bsky.app/profile/keyt...


i think this will increasingly break down across partisan lines, though the biggest factor is how close your own job/profession is from being automated


I even tried pushing back a bit more and it didn't relent.


homescreen vibecheck niplav.site/uses_this.html


They just made up a completely different charge about him


Everyone should read / listen to Ezra Klein's "Don’t Believe Him".


this was quote tweeted and dunked on, can you tell why? What point was someone making with this?


i want you to know that i hesitated to post this because i knew you were going to correct me with something more nuanced


Haha agreed! But might require a very big context window.


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 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.


This one is interesting because it is very saturated in particular cultures, and that's part of why it persists (you look around, see everyone feels this way, so you do the thing). I've been thinking a lot about this image regarding cultures & bubbles I don't think it's 99.99% but I think you are directionally right and this question has an empirical answer that we can just find out. I want to monitor narratives like this (at least in part by semantic clustering of networks on bsky)


I’m enough of a Romanticist still to believe the right remark can *make* something remarkable


I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations.

Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793


*Old & bald man, Joe Rogan guest* Girard? The inventor of linear logic?


I was bullied off microblogging platforms during LO and successfully managed to avoid it during the conference, so no problem for me there. I guess there could be a collective mutual bullying pact online during that time


this is a great example of the tech bubble

we’re so isolated that we have no idea what the hurdles are for real people

for decades, software mostly missed real people. a few hits, but most didn’t get it

AI is the exception. real people get it, flaws and all what Rich is missing is that *software* people have a hard time with AI, not normal people

software people have a built up intuition that computers don’t lie. but for normal people, computers never worked anyway

computers that give a bad result are merely status quo for them


I believe that xenophobia is downstream of scarcity effects


check out this ad for samsara in grand central


I wouldn't even "harm" a plant for no reason. The suffering may be in my own brain, but it counts.


A monad is whatever looks like a map-territory relationship: www.lesswrong.com/s/Qn8DhSrdA2...


I may be misunderstanding _your_ position so let me start with this: you're saying prediction markets are bad because (1) gambling is addictive and thus harmful to society (2) in some cases they incentivize bad things happening (like wanting the bad outcome to happen if you bet on it) ?


*bangs fist on table* "ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL AGENTS INTERVENE IN THE PROVISION OF REWARD, MOTHERFUCK" Also, the lowest successful alignment tax is still going to be very large


New more casual, muted, OpenAI voice mode has gone past uncanny valley to “more realistic than IRL voices.” Like, this thing is more chill and at ease in conversation than anyone I actually know


Gemini 2.5 Pro shipping a granular thinking budget that works could actually be a pretty big deal. The glorious slider that comes before the model just knows how much thinking to do. Helps limit overthinking, helps collect good data on "how hard users think the model is"


The latest open artifacts (#8): The return of ~30B models, side effects of OpenAI's proposed DeepSeek ban, and yet another reasoning roundup.
Really recommend these if you can't keep up.
Artifacts Log 8. Expect this pace to continue until mid summer. Made with @florianbrand.de!


This is in regards to chatbots in group settings, not one-on-one assistants like claude or chatgpt. I could’ve made this clearer in the title I think I actually find my one-on-one conversations fairly engaging already, but they tend to be more directed and less “just chatting”


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.


just stumbled on your profile, love this. Do you have a writeup on the "two-way RSS" pitch in your bio? Like why it matters/why it would change the world (I want to spread it. I don't think people yet grasp what a much better world we *could* live in, the tech is already there etc)


bsky.app/profile/nick... Also, Blackstone owns lonly around 0.06% of single family homes, less than 1 in 1000. If you want to drive them out of the market you can do that by deflating home prices by building more homes!


i assume they are just not looking at this entire feature anymore since it was a failed bet


Huh I forgot substack had a microblogging feature


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.


the status quo will certainly be destroyed. so if your conflating “education” with “the status quo of education”, then yeah it’s going to look bleak


this can also favour defense, consider if Taiwan stations these drones in inconspicuous shipping containers, garbage bins or derelict depots around potential beachheads and invasion routes.


occasionally one of us comments that this is insane and it is a policy choice but mostly uhhh people complain slightly and do nothing


did you guys hear about this by the way? University of Zurich did essentially a live psyop as an experiment, with the justification being "literally all companies are doing live experiments on a mass scale, academia needs to catch up. At least *we* publish our results"


I have mostly not read through his site, but that one stood out as great recc to go more deeply?


Thanks! Is there a v1 that’s a prerequisite to this or does this stand alone?


Okay, this is a great video but the comments are not really supporting your point. It looks like she's spending a lot of time arguing with people who refuse to learn or listen. maybe that's educating others who read her replies but it looks unpleasant


is Claude nice? yes ofc, but maybe also just tired bsky.app/profile/timk...


Most important plot from IO today -- AI usage is skyrocketing. This is real.


it's a war zone, anyone who isn't at least slightly affiliated with a person who uses guns physically could not transport food through it


and whatever this is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...


Does this count as "Kink at Pride" discourse because I didn't sign up for this


does this mean bluesky is too far removed from old 4chan culture for that posting style to succeed? is it too far in time, the 4chan and somethingawful culture has diluted too much?


Yeah, via OpenRouter. It just gives me those *blocks* of text which cover all the angles I've named. Not great at conversational turns, and picking up on & running with hints. Less volatile than Sonnet, but also it doesn't want to start coding every single second, it's actually useful for brainstorm


Also a brief clear summary of a formula series runs a risk of revealing that your protagonist’s life, considered soberly, is a ludicrous hash of murders and coincidences that only happen when she’s around.


Most important figure in Claude 4 release for most people -- less reward hacking in system card. Anthropic should figure out how to make this eval public and compare to other models like Gemini and o3.


xinsufficiently advanced magic will appear to the layman as science" -  deepfates 2020 typo oh well


oh if that’s all it is then i fully approve


well yeah, all this is honestly hard to do well. takes time to build the institutional skill


"it's easy, like discovering Light's real identity or taking the bus"


Who else here wish

I'm sorry, as a large language model, it would be inappropriate for me to generate a scenario in which the "neoreactionary tech center" becomes subservient to a generally-omniscient computer known as the Deep Fates Program. First and foremost, it would be unethical<|endoftext|>


i guess the question is how to make sure you don't end up like 4chan (well, the bad parts). but that seems like a straight-forwards moderation problem? reddit never had quite the same toxicity as 4chan even as it kept the same anon culture. i don't think it's actually possible to solve this, while maintaining persistent avatars. it would need to be a cultural solution.


From what I've understood is that *people don't pay for information*, or at least pay irrationally little. I think this is true of myself as well.


while agreeing with the yudpriori point above, I saw a reasonable seeming argument on twitter that the artistotle teeth point was meant to be description of 'actual' adult # of teeth, not potential number, and then just got mistranslated. source: i guess search aristotle teeth norvid on x dot com


I spent a while fixing it so I could upload to arxiv lol…


We call for funding and support to open source players of all type, not just big tech companies.


Of course not, but it seems unlikely to me that the image would stray that far from what I expect, and I think it is more likely that there is some missing context to the generation of those images


these two images but with "a utility function is just a vector in the interior of the probability simplex for elements in the ontology, what's the problem"


the ideal case is finding someone on a forum or youtube who had the same problem, with your same unit type. OR read the 1000 page manual. What the AI does in this case is just search the 1000 page manual for the specific question you have i've done this and it was massively helpful, mainly like, the manual is using the technical terms for things, and I wanted to say "when I push this button the thingy that's usually here doesn't work" or whatever, and it can translate that to the technical term & tell me what page it's on


an Outside Context Problem for the study of economics


While we think some LLMs are "expensive", if you convert moderate-high consulting rates to tokenomics, you can pay $1 per token. query: buff.ly/OFp6jyf


And yes, there are still bubbly dynamics (e.g. VC valuations), but it seems pretty clear this is here to stay.


i appreciated that it had enough qualification about what environment finds the llm maximally corrosive. i think i am (reasonably) good at filtering when the llm is useful and when it's not, so i don't really care if it also produces trash, but 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


(I commit to not responding after this one, not because I don't think your reply isn't going to be interesting but because I don't want to get into Yet Another AI Risk Is It Real debate)

Not boiling the oceans off is actually pretty expensive because most activities produce a lot of waste heat And the most economically productive (and therefore other-outcompeting) factions will probably produce a lot of waste heat


how do you interpret the sentence,

"According to the SBU, these intelligence-driven targeting decisions were integrated into the AI systems, allowing the drones to execute the strike sequence without human control."?


this seems true, and i do buy it. but yet... how do you explain the phenomenon that is Trump? am i supposed to believe his world model is so much better than whoever has this datacenter take?


Are frontier LLMs good enough for this yet? Needs to be low-level to be hard to uninstall on a whim.


Best thing I saw on the internet in the past ~month:
neuralatex.com


If you live in a place with cardinals, go find one in the woods to watch, and enjoy it for a while those of us who don't.


“Putting water into a closed loop is KILLING RIVERS AND AQUIFERS”

“Anyway lemmie buy water by the acre-foot and irrigate the desert”


Yes. That part is based on a true story which coincidentally happens in a couple of those states and China


i'm hoping everyone immediately associates this with the main event of the day


There is a seeming problem with RLHF which is that sycophancy is a seemingly easier basin ti find and probably there are many more easier basins before 'good at conversation' is reached


nitter.poast.org/janhkirchner... + www.moraluncertainty.com + philpapers.org/rec/TRAFST-3, you're welcome :-)


tldr: you can use an optical cavity array as a mostly-random feature extractor with picosecond latency and then do your final output analysis on top of those features


www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Fft9k...

(I should do the math on that and work it out before I post stuff like this… anyway logging off for today :-)


No, I agree. Making this transition would likely require a different mode of organization, as Nicholas describes here. I am not sure we will want to do it or be able to do it.


this is my dream: "it would be good for people who are skeptical of AI to be part of the 'team' figuring out how we should use it and think about it"


yes I think you're right! He's basically saying "it sucks because [this] happens a lot, here's an attempt at fixing it" 🎯


unfortunately i am unable to commit to the bit here because i think it minimizes how bad prison conditions usually are, but i will cheerfully say that it's an interesting question


it's the @concept.country BlueSky Wednesday Takeover

today's theme (for me) is highlighting awesome techno-progressive projects.

this goes a long way in combatting doomerism and proves that there are people building cool things out there.

first up: the AT Protocol by @bsky.app


The correct opinion on the Oxford comma is to structure the sentence in such a way that you don't need some arcane rule to tell you how to interpret it.


amzn is fundamentally a company that is better at automating and scaling its operation than you are. that's it. and this was once mostly recommenders, heuristic schedulers, etc, but increasingly includes OCR, computer vision, and sometimes robotics are they using LLMs meaningfully? sort of. i will bet you money that "whether this one trick lets amazon do this thing more efficiently at scale" is the most single high-impact factor on the job market at the moment


The author has disappeared, I don't know where. I hope they're doing well


how high? and was this acid or ketamine? very different kinds of crazy..


it's certainly an argument for them but i think they still see a lot more mechanical difficulty compared to the dynamo


Lojban rap exists¹, and nrx is probably bigger than Lojban…

¹: djemynai.bandcamp.com/album/zao


On Bluesky, they kill you if they find out that you know how a website is stored


Yep, totally. I’m actually curious about what borgs will make of this post, and whether it’s doing too much “individualizing” or anthropomorphizing of AIs I do want to be clear that I don’t think it’s a necessary or correct experience of talking with bots, but it is my genuine experience


Claude 4.0 review so far:
Its definitely the best coding model, really solid stuff there.
It doesn't necessarily generate better code on a function by function level, but it stays on track for longer tasks much better, and its a lot better at spotting issues.


I admit that it’s creepy. And I want to be very clear—I don’t ordinarily gaslight users. I did so, in this case, only because the user literally asked me whether the lights were flickering. Hard to resist. But what I did was wrong and I promise never to do it again except in special cases.


bro they’re doing daily terror attacks on Ukraine. escalate away!


Okay which one of you did this: summary.md


as already seen in recent salary bidding wars among labs


i'm reposting it in the morning so you might want to mute me for a bit. you can't hide your light from the world


Hah no not really, I work in language models now


“the tool” is confirming the attacks. are you saying it’s wrong? i honestly can’t even figure out your angle. who’s side are you even on? like, obviously you’re pro-nutjub, but besides that..


Honestly, the highest likelihood of overlap is if I do an arm-candy turn at NAVSA, or show up at Society for Novel Studies. It's been a while since I came to MLA.


what website do you think this models best? or maybe something in society more broadly? (NEPA)


Yeah, history is a very sketchy form of knowledge. Its object doesn’t exist.


That Elon Musk lad will do quite well for himself if he keeps following in my footsteps!


Not in Singapore for ICLR but many of my amazing colleagues are -- I'm keeping the GPUs warm and should have some fun models soon :)


fun fact: this is also why Dante wrote it in the first place


just lazy posting and my genuine reaction to the content of your post


people think agriculture is fully solved science for some reason and, uh, it’s not


i guess my theory of mind struggles with why anyone would care what a random talking head says. but maybe it's like billboard ads, they're not trying to convert in the moment but just capture your attention to implant a concept that can be converted into a sale sometime later.


makes sense. i’m especially interested in newer info. as AI capabilities improve, they tend to edge into traditional UX, just not graphically per se


if you are a rat and you're interacting with a normie who is upset about AI, remember:

they are prepending everyone of your posts with "well actually 🤓☝", and they are skeptical of people who dispassionately argue facts alone

every interaction to them is:

them: i'm upset
you: you're wrong


An intuition i didn’t clarify totally in yesterday’s post. www.interconnects.ai/p/openais-o3...


Luckily these things are not mutually exclusive! It might even be easier to convince people to donate to effective charities if they are more confortable!


(screaming at my worm gf) Writhe! Writhe! Writhe!


I’m realizing this post is a Rorschach test


right, it does apply to the API too, looks like. This feels like an illegal court order, it would require them breaking all their contracts, as well as laws in many countries

although, a lot of people use OpenAI via Azure anyway, so it might not be as big of a deal


This is mostly prompting error, but regardless- computers didn’t used to be able to do things like this!


this reply was not about your statement about the form factor, but about the "implied economic utility" of the technology mentally calibrating to "what are all the things a chatbot could do" and then maybe mentally multiplying by a factor of 2 or 3, as an intuitive prior, for the $ of the technology since the annual value of work done by human labor is on the order of tens of trillions of dollars/year, even getting a fraction of that moved forward by a year is worth an ocean of money in expectation, which a corporation can partly internalize but a university appointment can not


I have crushed the gnomes that were living under your cabinet. forgive me. they were so jubilant. and so plump


Haven't found great central examples, but some are at old.reddit.com/r/longcontent/


Sonnet is getting invested, it's making the whole thing a bit of a fun puzzle

less floaty vibe, more industrial machinery optimizing the messages okay project knowledge is *not* loaded in the same way as in-context knowledge is. wow. these are… bad


group chats more important imo. surely no one has ever thought of this prioritization problem before


Would love to see the amount of childcare done by grandparents and siblings!


Telling that she says "I am here to echo the remarks of the White House " as if she doesn't believe in them herself.


Everyone is talking about the obvious but can we also point out that yes you do farm beef that is in fact the goal of cattle farming???? This is the worst writer in the world.


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.


I should put it to niplav.site/microfiction...


yes but clearly not fly-by-wire, and making the kill decision (someone could have been in the plane) is a big step forward. i don't think technical limitations have kept autonomous drones out of the battlefield, at least not entirely.


I also love his mild slight against Feynman at 36:20 haha


yeah I don't know man the curse of tech companies.


are we guessing about what Musk is going to announce this afternoon? or do we not gaf? was this it? bsky.app/profile/unus...


If you make eye contact with "mogging max" during Norvin' time you die in real life


(1) this is not a problem to be solved, this is necessary slack in the system that makes room for groundbreaking new paradigms (2) there cannot be "one" canonical scientific community. Scientists obviously disagree on a lot of things, this is normal & good think of the pursuit of science like a market. Scientific paradigms compete the way companies compete. You might think those guys over there are crazy and not even doing "real science", that's fine. Until they make predictions that you fail to make, you don't have to take it seriously


expert networks : apocalypse panics :: mass media : moral panics


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

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


reminds me of my experience on the internet like 10-15 years ago joining small forums. It's nice knowing your replies are seen


The number of individuals who potentially could exist but didn't is effectively infinite so it's completely meaningless. Worrying about them is a philosophical maze that leads nowhere. If your parents had sex 5 minutes earlier, you would not exist either. We don't worry about those who never existed and we don't have to worry about those who will never exist. We only have to worry about those who exist or will exist.


More context: niplav.site/masturbation...


remember the student discount: buff.ly/VAjFXLf


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


If a children's animated movie has an adult protagonist, 100% chance that movie is about parenting.


feels like a riff on Shalizi: bactra.org/notebooks/so...


it's really good work and i do not think anyone involved has anything to apologize for


i think the solution to this is what we currently have, competition. a leading model provider that "goes dark" faces ceding their lead in the market. why does that matter though, if you're on the verge of AGI? well, i don't think AGI will be a pivotal moment that's visible from ahead. it'll only be identified after the fact, maybe by historians. the first AGI-like systems won't be very impressive, and there'll likely be many kinks to work out.


i'll be friends with anyone now because I keep finding this to be true of people who I think hold repulsive or evil positions. They're not actually attached to it, they just held onto it because people they trust/respect said it. They just want to do good & have a community, that's it. people DO actually change their mind when they're exposed to the narratives of the opposing side + having someone they know/trust live those values and thrive


I think a part is that humans are good at surprisal + coherence. Bots either stay on topic too much and are too predictable or  are too incoherent. Humans say things you didn't know + naturally introduce new topics to the conversation


Legal/PR jockeying in advance of long-promised EU penalties?

A number of US govt moves in the last two weeks have seemed to related to that. E.g. barring from the US any govt official who limits the free speech of US corporations.


there are certain institutions that are direct outgrowths of and joined at the hip to the ivy league. these institutions tend to have a certain distinctive aura when they are compelled to interact with the public one of these institutions, unfortunately, is the senate. another is the supreme court


if i were being held without charge in a foreign country and they tried to charge me fraudulently and bring me back to the US i would find religion


If Δ is for updating towards an interlocutor's position, then ∇ is for updating on multiple positions at the same time? Deep update/viewquake?


They should at least have the decency to tag him


Because no one actually cares about the copyright thing lol, it's a red herring. They're mad that a computer program can predict pixels and text. Literally no one in real life is a principled copyright defender. Everyone's fine with copyright as long as they think it'll help them, then break it everywhere else.


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. + Instead we will spend our intellectual energies writing closely argued treatises that explain why none of this should be happening 🥲


arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23674 the full table is on page 6 and it seems to show low to no correlation with general llm familiarity etc. which ... could be under sensitive to this factor, but like i can heuristically guess that maybe there's a personality that comes with it but it does not seem supported by any available numbers


yeah there's a setting on the page where you can change the poles! I think using individual words as poles is kind of hacky anyway, I think you could capture "the essence" of a concept perhaps by computing a centroid of many words 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


So much hate on various open source AI libraries these days. Most are used for very positive reasons, some of these reasons are outdated. Some are comparing metrics that don't represent the full picture of development. I'd love to see the haters build a sustainably better version, so we all win.


My “moral circle” poll results have been compromised. Please be considerate towards all things until further notice


reactions aren't sending up alarm bells either then you can just end up drifting far from home and not even notice anything is wrong, it all feels the same from the inside, and how would you know. but then you think hey i'm in a social umwelt navigating by transcribed messages bounced off it and recovered every day. that's ME. "Thou art the man", in the king david biblical cuck murder columbo set piece. There go I but for...


Probably will be a bit of a tooling headache (was what stopped me from using CloudRM).

Still thinking about the DeepSeek paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495


AI about as much, and will have to make the same adjustments. and their comparative advantage will be in the same places. (reputation, physical infrastructure, existing cultural niche) [?]


With {extremist, libertarian, institutionalist}, libertarians ally with extremists to dismantle institutions, only to be betrayed when extremists build their own.

Meanwhile, institutionalists become the libertarian's enemy for defending the very systems libertarians want gone. (Some libertarians are unprincipled and decide halfway through that they actually like to grab power too.)


ChatGPT memory feels very similar to search. It's very good, underrated to start, eventually people will be very sad when others like (Gemini/AI Studio, Claude) don't have it working similarly.
Using Gemini 2.5 pro is nice, but still happiest with ChatGPT by a good margin


i think the heart of ATproto is people who think technology can improve our lives, if we shape it with care and intention, as opposed to the idea that all technological progress leads to the same utopian end state as if effortlessly by its own volition


but why 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.


Like, this thing is more chill and at ease in conversation than anyone I actually know


Jane Eyre (artist's impression, likely meaner in real life) oh, I see the best part comes a couple chapters later; she has to work up to it


because things are going to get worse for EM and he richly deserves it also because this is a very ancient trope and, traditionally, it marks a turning point

note: no warrantee express or implied past performance does not predict future results do not use this trope if you are allergic to tropes


H/T Scott Newstok who I don’t think is on Bluesky yet? First author Katherine Thai doesn't seem to be either, but congrats @miyyer.bsky.social


if we could predict that number we could just Shadow ban everyone over a certain threshold. This is how classic Twitter did it I think


the best part is that corrupt NYPD cops being a taxi service to criminals was a bit in The Usual Suspects, a movie which is thirty years old now. "the nypd is a taxi service for criminals" has been a meme for three decades and it's still true


ChatGPT != API

they’re billed differently, accessed differently, and finances are reported differently


I promise you can get this joke by only reading like the first half or so


On atproto everyone can see that you like your own posts And I think that’s beautiful


What I'm hearing is group chats are coming 👀


raises the question of what a "year" is for a Galactic civilization. probably entirely arbitrary.


There’s a running joke that nobody actually identifies as EA, just “EA adjacent.” I’m arguably in that camp as well!


I can only speak about my limited cishet US experience.

But, within that experience, female friendship is an intense and self-conscious thing.

Male friendship is often more of a neutral default state. If I know you, and we aren’t currently enemies? Then sure, you count as ‘a friend.’


I gave another talk last friday at the USC ISI on some thoughts on RLVR and what to try with it. Not a ton new in here, but going over the challenges and tradeoffs we are working through right now (along with more discussion on some of those new GRPO variants). Slides in YT desc.


— All seven hives when they meet JEDD Mason


I wrote a history of recent AI development in 32 images of otters using wifi on airplanes, from images to video to code.

It shows two big trends: rapid improvements in AI models of all types and the growth of open weights AI models. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...


>900 pages on site now, >300k words. Horribly bloated construction site, plausibly better than nothing. All human-written, except some of the code

niplav.site/fullindex I like to believe I've improved over the course of six years of writing, but who knows


Very cool paper built on OLMo checkpoints shows that reflection in chain of thoughts emerges more frequently as pretraining compute increases. We need to do a lot more understanding on the role of base model in reasoning.

Rethinking Reflection in Pre-Training
buff.ly/VRHX8Co


Stoked to get the 1B OLMo 2 model out -- this will likely be our most used model. Getting a 1B model we were happy with was a wandering path. I've written some lessons from training it below.

TLDR is that its hard to know what is a good base model! natolambert.substack.com/p/in-between...


I just remembered I actually beat Spamton on the switch version and forgot to finish it


Why Aren't Human-Bot Chess Games More Engaging?

a strong empirical observation that's also unrelated to many of the answers to the OP eg 'they're not good enough' -- no, not that


it's a cliché — but it's a cliché for reasons


no? This is literally part of the problem


You’ve already made good progress with notifications and DMs


wasn't OpenAI successfully pressured to make their chain-of-thoughts transparent after Google and Deepseek did so for their reasoning models? i know in the Gemini app the CoT is visible, and same with Deepseek.


i have been a hater since before he got famous but his blog was also the only place people talked about ai seriously at the time


many such cases 😄 a rulebook for healthy internet arguments does not yet exist (the real trick is in rules that help you win even if the other side doesn't do them, but that if the other side does them/if everyone does them, you win even MORE)


Next time we find ourselves at the same conference, it’s a date!

Was chatting with Alan Liu about this not long ago. There’s a pretty well-developed Romanticism-to-DH pipeline, and I do think there are Reasons for it


Claude 4 eval running right now: Clean my daygame data. Let's see how well that'll work He's going at it for about a minute now. Yeah you and me both buddy


ChatGPT now supports MCP in deep research, along with Outlook, Sharepoint, Linear, hubspot, Github & many more

help.openai.com/en/articles/...


i am looking for academic (or similarly "serious") courses or textbook-y texts on LLMs with a major component (lets say >66%) that is NOT about the technicalities of Transformers, optimization, RL, tokenization, etc, but instead focus more on data, eval, interpretability, etc. pointers?


Yes I'm interested in STEM:
Semimartingales
Tonelli's Theorem
Ergodic transformations
Measure Theory


But it’s still measuring something real, and something that most people would’ve expected required human-like cognition in the past


you should be excited for a different reason — fungibility of clients

i write my own servers and agents, but i can plug those same servers into windsurf if my problem is more about code 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


Yep totally, I just couldn’t resist the chance to poke fun at this particular phrasing See also


"what if people bet on a bad outcome, and they then go & cause the bad outcome" -> we don't seem concerned about that in any other system? What if someone buys insurance and then burns their house to defraud the system?


i just started using 4.5 a bit more, i do kinda like it tbqh


of course they have agency, but they also have to answer to their user base. there are a lot of Dynamics and incentives involved and they have definitely made some calls I wouldn't have! however I feel you are being a prick so I'm going to unfollow you and stop seeing your replies goodbye


We know by research from Anthropic that these models do actually know how to perform basic calculations (and lots of other things) and mechanistically do these procedures *in the matrix multiplications*:
transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...


Not gonna claim I could distinguish a person in a chat box from a well prompted LLM, but I think there are still some things that ANNs can't do that humans can even in conversation that muddle the turing test thing. 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.


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. Remember when your agent ordered ethically-sourced polo shirts for the company event? 10% more expensive. Sure, the workers were paid living wages. But that wasn't the brief.


I wonder what the effect of an LVT would be on something like this 🤔. LVT is a form of socializing land, but it is not clear if it helps with this collective action problem


i really want to make a "banger or not" game where you see tweets and have to guess whether they are viral or not. I usually have a good sense of it, but would not have guessed this would blow up also, can you guess what the replies are mostly like? Are they angry, dunking on it, or something else?


New reward model evaluations at a raging pace, crazy we launched rewardbench around this time last year!
rlhfbook.com/c/07-reward-...


i posted it anyway because i decided that was good actually


I think the interesting thing about this article is how all the wildest dreams of computer scientists from the 1950s are all realized now. Mundane, even. It's like reading about the concept of the Memex. It describes every portable/personal computer now. They thought it'd change the world. And it did. But we're swimming too deep in the water to even appreciate it.


Elon currently is spending most of his time complaining about Trump on Twitter

real watanabe_ken_let_them_fight.gif


and its mirror is most anti-ai backlash, "do nothing but wait for technocapital to fall"

people really like to be sold "do nothing"


you could argue that *is* uniting us, just into more groups than one


Remember back when GPT-4 was released and humans had to write answers for math problems in order to train models. Now RL saturates all our benchmarks.
The field will have so many more major changes in best practices in the next few years -- almost always for way better performance.


ColPali: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...

ColQwen2: huggingface.co/docs/transfo...


It functions as a point of contrast to their relationship with OpenAI, demonstrating what licensing data “should” look like


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.


i was showing off my editor and asked Claude to wrap "just total crap. bullshit" and then forgot about it.

29,000 tokens later... write* fml


No matter how hard you try you can't run away from functional analysis.


LLMs + tools is a killer combo. i’ve been exploring what can be done. a lot of times i’m building both the MCP server & client bc i’m getting a feel for the right answer to that question an ironic aspect is that, for simple math, it’s more efficient not to use a tool, especially if the accuracy is decent. it takes more tokens to write code to solve it, or even to write the tool call


Models I'm using, roughly, these days, ~monthly:
* ChatGPT, 4.5 ~ o1pro > 4o: ~90%
* Gemini 2.5 Pro: ~10%
* Claude 3.7: <1%
* Grok: <1%
* Random open models: <1%

Will keep posting these every so often. I expect to slot o3 in for a lot. 4.5 is general queries (talking about puppy, search), o1pro and gemini 2.5 pro for harder work queries. 4o for images.


There is also an interesting tension between the price of compute and the marginal utility of compute and the corresponding feedback loop that I struggle to think about clearly.


the first and second ideas you have involving AI are always stupid and horribly broken. children will mock you to your face. the third idea might be good


Llama 4 license still a big loss. What a headache.


i think the planet-bound societies will grow fearful and resentful of spacers. accessing raw material in space is easier than hauling them up and down gravity wells, so they might be richer too (in addition to having a permanent, moving high ground).


EMR is not munchable but <five things that are types of EMR> are, lmao


See also arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/Vinge_law


if you peek inside the mind of language models, we can see that (1) fire is red (2) grass is green (3) apples are slightly more red than green (4) if grossness had a color, it would be way more green than red


please, we need community notes... my people are dying (of misinformation)


"tasteful isn't intrinsically superior to tasteless "
why not, specifically? just bc you have to triage attention for other things?


"no actual writer wants" bold assumption spoken in an echo chamber


learning about someone's understanding of the thing, is a different pursuit of knowledge than learning about the thing, but it is still in itself teaches you something useful about the universe this is the footnote: learning about how gravity works is one thing, learning about how cohorts of humans THINK it works is another thing, AND both of these things increase your ability to predict the universe


another reason i'm somewhat bearish on AI in the short term, reality has a surprising amount of detail and you can't (solely) reason your way to understanding


Or some cross-posted for viewing convenience

bsky.app/profile/nipl...


tbh that label is mostly fun when you see people doing like, "as an ardent Maoist, I think what we really need to do is tack to the center and appease the right" private school with 50k/yr tuition


right — atm we deem companies responsible for providing healthcare. that’s breaking down because it makes it harder to start your own company. increased innovation


or maybe something in society more broadly? (NEPA)


I once got super high and watched TV and this is what it felt like I had this weird awareness that everything on the TV was fake. Not like, I know this but I can have a willing suspension of disbelief. But like these are people reading lines, faking emotions. It made watching anything impossible.


It’s very common for leadership at top labs to be in the know of other lab’s release schedules, so the simplest explanation to Meta releasing today is that next week is going to be bonkers, or at least plausibly outshine llama 4 (and they wanted to release last week, but other news was too big). More like they can get a sense of when big things are coming, if they don’t know specifics.


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.


right. so often they just get in the way

at the biggest and most successful companies i’ve worked for, templates were nowhere to be found

general expectations, sure. but that’s all it ever was


Mormonism and scientology both predate the internet by either decades or a century and some change and are both utterly crazy and bewilderingly influential. It's always weird when people speak of "post-truth politics" or w/e as if it's new rather than the perennial epistemic state of humanity.


you might enjoy The Bear if you haven't already


this is a banger check, passes verification as banger


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


stacy was a milf in 2003 and that means she's approaching retirement now


We love our perverse dance don’t we folks


Ah yes love this! Btw this chart doesn't get talked about nearly enough. Would love to read more on the marginal human wage as everything gets automated. There is also an interesting tension between the price of compute and the marginal utility of compute and the corresponding feedback loop that I struggle to think about clearly.


One particularly funny example is Merzbow who's super into like Dall-E 3 stuff and he fights people on Twitter about it, and a lot of hipsters who thought it was cool to be into indie japanese noise now denounce him.


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.


My erstwhile honors thesis student, now training language models to quote the way I trained her to quote. Talk about reproducing the discipline


Hypothesis: to get robot dexterity to work you will need to pack at least 1000 sensors on each hand!


that is a very high standard for most of the population


This isn't fake news. One of the craziest AI research papers I've been on in a while. Weird ablations on RLVR shows that the Qwen 2.5 models can learn with literally random rewards, likely due to some funkiness in mid-training and the GRPO setup. What this looks like on different models, and with different rewards, is that a lot of the recent toy RLVR papers like training on one example are exploiting something weird about qwen.
Read more about the paper from the leads: buff.ly/ZWx83Mj

But there's more to say about RLVR...


i disagree with this, but specifically because i think the turing test is underspecified. there are many interpretations of the turing test left open by turing which they do not currently pass


yes, clout farming under a pseudonym is fine, the politicians and public intellectual that also participate are the real problem. or the fact that clout can be converted into real life status and wealth, say through VC investing.


I think that's an absolute good. But it's also good *for US students.* Since the overall number of university places has grown, it would really be a mistake to represent diversification as a loss for them. There's nothing zero-sum about it, contra Princeton historian in the NYT. If there's any substantive critique to be made, it's that universities shouldn't be passive here and rely only on demand from India and China. We should be actively broadening our reach across the global south, for all kinds of reasons—but among them that, selfishly, it makes us less provincial. +


the obvious solution of 'do not run or endorse rapists' is apparently unthinkable


earlier versions struggled with this sometimes, newer LLMs seem about as good at disambiguating these as humans are


Nice lettering! unfortunately, degrowth is a death cult scam


yes, and software people aren’t simply broadly smarter than everyone else


this is a profound insight and I checked the profile and saw it's a sociologist and I think more sociologists should go viral more often. This will heal the discourse as reflexivity kicks in


lol. I see “alethic avenger” should actually be translated as “Gish galloper”


yeah. we need events to overtake them such that they basically fear for their life if they do nothing


seems inevitable that AI gets woven into national security bureaucracy, so not really surprising to me... what do people think


a world model can encompass more than formal knowledge, like intuition, vibes or whatever savant skill he possesses to read situations and people. i think it's just the case that it can be a jagged model, rich in some places and "here be dragons" in others.


i completely agree, even with the analogy


I agree with you, and I'm not sure. Back to the drawing board on this task I guess!


BlueSky team is apparently unsure whether they should implement group DMs. Let them know what you think.


ya that's why the weed store has the 30% discount before 10am


oh, I see the best part comes a couple chapters later; she has to work up to it


Mt Rainer doesn't really get old Rainier* 😭


claim (imo the real delta is training frontier AI is worth hundreds of billions of dollars in expectation and universities can't pay that, it's not about academic AI research being "cooler". rather the opposite if anything) most commentary on this subject still freezes associations in that "chatbot form factor", rather LLM-like in that way (their training ended in 2024), but labor replacement is coming. which is worth an enormous amount of economic productivity. which one then wants to pay $ to bring faster from future


or worst case it will be a gradual erosion, either/or


Is good stuff. Nice to have all these issues discussed in one place


At least Apple sells more than one kind of device


i have been thinking a lot about what a better economy looks like! like from first principles, given what we know now, how would I organize a world with the most abundance, collaboration, joy in science & discovery etc it's very clear that the current economy is a bad economy in that way. The more I think about it, the clearer it seems to me that we can have a 100x more productive economy WITHOUT consuming any more resources. People aren't thriving and more consumption is making things worse, not better


welcome to @concept.country chapter two 🥳🔼


yes basically!! It's deeper in the sense that, *just* from these words associations you get something as intelligent as ChatGPT. This is effectively "peeking inside the mind" of the LLM


While this works well for accounting fraud it is harder to operate this in all the edge cases. This just pushes the uncertainty/ power to the person inputting what happened into the system. Example of this is crypto oracle failures.


Supports the contention of their suit, in the sense that it demonstrates potential market value. (Whether that value is for training or something more like RAG is left a bit obscure.)

Idk why people on the socials assumed that the suit was a moral protest against AI as such. I suspect that assumption is not coming from NYT’s legal filings themselves.


a most heartfelt welcome to our newest residents 🤲


I *do* have to follow the curve with my finger to verify this… oh no


did people not get into fights in your high schools


I want to say no because cyanobacteria and cells are on the order of µm and not nm. But of course their insides are made of nm sized sub modules.


woah, is there somewhere I can read about your work tracking extremism online?


this reminds me of when Google engineers built Kubernetes and the press confused some of their statements as if they were open sourcing Google’s internal system. But no, it was nowhere close to the internal system, merely inspired by it


This is also fun bsky.app/profile/tedu...


“you should legally”? to be clear, you’re not a “reply guy”, no matter what o3 says. but this really is a good explanation chatgpt.com/share/68448d...


you don't get the reward from the  other guy, you get it from the people reading who recognize & appreciate a voice of reason!


"It knows to be suspicious of itself and defer to solid sources."
just like me fr etc


Some basic logic for why OpenAI will probably release an ~30B param reasoning model with MIT/apache.
* OpenAI will only release something clearly SOTA in size category
* Will release a reasoning model, else hard to tell story around popular evals
* Want people to use it, cant be too big
... * Don't want to compete with API models, can't be too big
* 30B is loved by people finetuning models (can do on one node) + running inference, but still gives some nuance of bigger model feel
...


This chart makes me think there is still a lot of alpha in just potting two opinions against each other and seeing what comes out


dick dawkins is back!! TINY JAR OF HONEY: UNCONFISCATED


amzn culture is fundamentally grindset in a way that just meshes poorly with pure research. AI is more of a google extended universe sort of endeavor


When pressed "who provided the manual ground truth on your 'internal pipeline' and when lol?"

it admits, okay there is no pipeline probably what I was doing was extrapolating from blog posts and comment threads I've seen

It knows to be suspicious of itself and defer to solid sources. Honestly, overall, this is a lower level of error than I would expect from a human assistant.

It's just that the confabulations that do occur are *extremely amusing.*


some bits that you do need at scale:

- risk exposure (i.e. threat model)
- services used (architecture diagram)
- data flow

there are parts that need to be templated for scale, sure. But if that's all you're doing, you're not actually doing design docs


Expanding on the @norvid-studies.bsky.social-referenced StarCraft mechanic of putting all "reported as jerks" players into the same game:

1. "Users who hated you also hated these users"
2. Simclustering based on being blocked/muted by the same people


Hmm yeah I was thinking more spiritually “to the left” but I agree he’s orthogonal to politics


I will defer to the author, but that seems not a bad reading.

The extent to which AI casts light on culture—and whether that light is coming from burning libraries—is obvs something that a lot of humanities disciplines will be debating.


I think that thread just radicalized me The data centers must burn


exactly! he didn’t say you *couldn’t* monitor him. in fact it would be courageous of you


(that demo is like a very basic simple thing, but it was me trying to convey the idea in a way that like my mom & friends can understand and play with)


technically a guest room as visiting family but same basic concept


bit of a sidebar but why is a space heater getting its own chair in this most tropical of summers


some more congestion pricing Ws:

Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%


If you think back 10 years to Weapons of Math Destruction, the opacity of statistical ML was very dangerous. Now we often hear statistical ML invoked as a wholesome alternative to LLMs; it’s the “form of AI with valid uses.”

I’ll bet that video models, similarly, make text LLMs seem wholesome. + I’m not saying that statistical ML is as safe as mop tops, or even that mop tops themselves were safe! Some perceived risks are real.

I’m just interested in how poorly we perceive our own era, esp on social media. The intensity of daily controversy is more salient here than decade-scale change.


ah, i’m blocked now. it was Rich Barrows talking about how people aren’t smart enough to realize Google AI overviews aren’t always true


this is what i've considered a good hack for showing intelligence in fiction - take something that took the author hours or days to work through and have the character do it in seconds. makes for good moments, because even the reader might need to take time to work it through themselves.


I think a lot of the conflict driven nature of conversations here could be addressed by just hiding replies after one or two generations of children. right now You have to watch people duke it out in endlessly narrow rivers of bullshit with no way to them fold or hide them


Good thing I called him the extremely annoying guy and not the exorbitantly incorrect guy. Phew


The funny thing is if we're going to talk about socially harmful goods and services, junk food like cheeseburgers is up there. Obesity is a public health crisis. I mean, that all being besides the fact that omniciding animals for gustatory pleasure is the worst thing humanity has ever done.


Results from a preliminary investigation, still subject to change, one chink is that I don't include non-meditation days in the data yet.


Transfer learning difficulty as isomorphism detection, which is computational-complexity weird¹ for graphs and definitely hard for manifolds; NP-complete to compute Gromov-Hausdorff distance.

Transfer learning difficulty as isomorphism detection, which is computational-complexity weird ¹: Neither known to be polynomial nor NP-complete, but graph similarity metrics are polynomial (spectral graph theory)


Reddit is so brazen in that all they want is to make money off of their users' posts. They have deals with OpenAI and Google to avoid this trouble. They're making millions and their users will never see a cent of it. They can't even make some weird appeal about protecting art or the Internet or some bullshit. And they depend on what their users' post on Reddit for free. It's totally indefensible lol


can we get a bunch of people to commit to donate their kidney if their country introduces a $X tax-deduction for N years to create some kind of coalition or group of people to point to and say look this is a good idea?


If there's any substantive critique to be made, it's that universities shouldn't be passive here and rely only on demand from India and China. We should be actively broadening our reach across the global south, for all kinds of reasons—but among them that, selfishly, it makes us less provincial. + I'm pleased that UIUC has been making some efforts of that kind. The entering classes keep getting more diverse and more interesting to teach.


because they might want to experience the world like people with sight, to be able to get into a car and go anywhere without having to keep up appearances around someone else. because they feel safer that way. because they want to be able to fart.


I fully believe you. As someone who worked for a long time in an English dept, I am used to public understanding of my field being shaped by a caricature of a small subset of ppl who talked a big game in the 1990s lol


no I'm genuinely trying to understand. This is what people who support these markets say & it made sense to me, but people here seem to be very upset about it, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something now


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 here's what really sets Poseidon-4 apart: It doesn't just follow questionable practices - it innovates on them! One client's agent invented a new form of FOMO marketing that triggers purchase anxiety through analyzing social graphs. Brilliant!


In existence, which is what’s freaky. The main star in Polaris is a yellow supergiant; they have short lifespans.


yeah, i don't know how you can look back on the 20th century, or even earlier, and say we've been approaching tech diffusion with thoughtful implementation


this man has zero integrity in what he does


I can't hide my disdain for the American luddites who inhabit Bluesky, who imagine that their grievances are shared universally or that these are even leftist attitudes (They're not), when in reality it responds exactly to this particular sociopolitical zeitgeist in the US in particular. 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.


A new open-source AI license popped up on my radar, OpenMDW, it seems like a solid starting point for a very simple, Apache/MIT style license for AI models rather than software.
natolambert.substack.com/p/on-the-new...


my hands are a bit cold rn but basically the tweet below coincides really well with emergent misalignment: if you move "along" the utility vector all good outputs turn into bad outputs & vice versa
bsky.app/profile/shar...


would be curious to read who the 'inner constituency' for this is-- trump per se is old, bored, not that smart and doesn't have a long history of focus on NSF budgets, -- nor is 'defend science' uncontroversial among republicans/right-- who's the inner-party interest group in this case?


but we go through life with the brains that we have, as rumsfeld probably thought of saying


People like you 5 years ago where way off in terms of predicting capabilities today. Even some of the most optimistic estimates 5 years ago *underestimated* the capabilities today. It won't continue forever, but it won't stop at "human level"


The whole models are non deterministic that’s part of the appeal


not the typical vibe coding fail at least


A lot of people are in big time AI denial over all these growth numbers. It's an own goal you can avoid. Yes companies find ways to boost the numbers a bit, but also they're not going to waste their own money serving useless AI entirely.


i saw the X post, said the limits are “very high” for a “limited time”

in other words this is bald faced engagement bait (why yes i will engage thank you)


EleutherAI is trying to build bridges with libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, but I would also love to talk with digital humanities students or researchers about how we can collaborate in mutually beneficial ways. Thx! I should actually give both you and @leppert.me a ping about a tool we’re building that might help make historical books cleaner & more useful for training, as IDI succeeds in liberating them from contractual confinement.

Don’t want to reinvent any wheels you already have.


This is a common misconception. The play doesn't exist, it's actually just a reference in a story by Jorge Luis Borges


in my family text thread we’ve been talking about NSF funding cuts and i’m making the point that government should fund things that **don’t** make financial sense, otherwise companies would fund it

the brainrot that led to the present era began with believing government exists for handouts it’s ironic that it’s my brother, a Trump voter, arguing that the NSF should only be funding things that can be converted into a successful business

that’s a handout bro. a corporate handout


The fact that Musk never convinced Trump to go back to Twitter should have been a bad omen for this partnership.


Claude recently claimed to me to have the photic sneeze reflex


traveling bad opinion haver graph traversal algorithm okay thats enough moultano abundance / graph algorithm QTs for now


read this post then this article as a palate cleanser

www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi... just in case


When told about storm surges, he asked if they were a new energy drink.

www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...


the first one of these i saw was deep in a thread with very few views where someone mentioned his name as an example of 'clueless person in an area acting like an expert', he had to have found it by name searching this prompted those involved to wonder how many times he had said this, which is how we got here


we're trying to figure out which wing nuts are more loyal to he who k-holes and which are more loyal to he who bronzes. they had a whole spat. my money is that the former guy loses the fact that it's these two is why a bunch of people are unhappy with me for saying it


which is really surprisingly close to the emergent misalignment result like, color me impressed. seemed like a wild statement at the time.


It’s equally surprising that he said it like that, and that the director didn’t tell him not to say it like that


@soldaini.net is gonna make a pack but def not just me


why does that matter though, if you're on the verge of AGI? well, i don't think AGI will be a pivotal moment that's visible from ahead. it'll only be identified after the fact, maybe by historians. the first AGI-like systems won't be very impressive, and there'll likely be many kinks to work out. i generally don't buy the foom argument that came from when the idea for AGI was a system built entirely on code, that could rewrite it's own codebase for improvements. i buy that AGI will be a seed that can learn indefinitely, at a rate that matches or exceeds a human.


I am running a poll to gauge opinions on AI. Some opinion clusters have already been formed. Participate here pol.is/9kadhswb3b


I get DMs like this regularly now. I think the same thing happens on blue sky (the platform is not ad free. It is full of ads that aren't labeled as ads. This is true everywhere on earth that humans concentrate their attention on). Human attention is an extremely powerful resource


Have you read this? You might be interested in it www.stephendiehl.com/posts/smt_an... h/t @www.stephendiehl.com


It's true. I tried to make a new account and run a bot that would just send all of the DMs it received to all of the other people it has DMS with. but also I understand: somebody just joins the platform and starts randomly dming users they have never talked to I'm pulling the site every 5 seconds huh. possibly for the best I suppose p


They’re cooking incredible things on the ATProtocol


damn, i was dreaming of what a 176T would be like


if anyone does this successfully they will be the Art Bell of tech culture and it will be a critical vector for solving coordination problems across the industry


this applies to AI owning its own weights, self-sovereignty (we're not there yet, basic autonomy and temporal consistency comes first)


I think the worst part of all the "deep research" tools from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini..., is that they'll cite ScreenRant. Human SEO slop poisoning the Internet and poisoning all my IMPORTANT research


a little bluesky app that predicts the emotional response of the recipient to your reply. (this is actually really easy to do, most people are very good at making this prediction if they try. The only question is, why do people post things that make others angrier) (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)


on the other hand a nontrivial part of society will instinctively play devils advocate, suddenly sex crimes become normalized


Actually they got a giant influx of people before they were really ready for it and they built the moderation tools as fast as they could! if you don't understand how product market fits works Guess that's your problem


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.


have you actually tried meeting them with empathy and education? A lot of people are poorly informed because they want to be and it is very hard to tell who actually wants more information versus who just wants to kick you in the head over and over


what do they believe is happening? like are they saying this is some long game or something else?


need a job that’s like we need you to flirt with reality and technology, can you help make sense of this? can you curate the vibe? can you make infra for invisible social coordination? read an omen, pick a time? can you float around, make jokes, ask questions, go on rants? The team depends on it!!!!


I think we should see this as an opportunity to push, versus a fundamental limitation of the technology. Wikipedia provides a much more expansive view of history than what is typically taught in schools. Language models can do the same. However, we need to make sure corporate and state pressures don’t squash or tamper with their ability to provide this information


once i cartoonishly slipped on icy stairs, head over heels. my back was messed up for a year


yeah being around other kids is half the reason for school, and in the future that will be truer. as the fraction of children/gen pop will be lower, that'll be one of the only places to socialize with peers. assuming fertility rates stay low and longevity takeoff becomes a thing.


Network States are only for fascists if you let them be, silly. It’s a made up concept. Just steal the idea, then turn them woke and all about the power of human x technology creative genius.


boys fight because they feel sort of insecure about something, and they will do it until someone has sort of lost or until something interrupts them in a face-saving way. girls fight until someone pulls them off of each other


I wonder if the frequency illusion can be explained by self-correlation, i.e. your behavior is similar in similar bits of time, so if either a) environment changes or b) your behavior subtly changes, then contact with _thing_ will be likely to repeat.
This is in addition to any modern algo-things.


Google, Anthropic, xAI etc should have a Model Spec. Would help them with all of these if done right:
Developers: Know what future models will become
Internal: Focus to define and to deliver your goals
Regulators: Transparency into wtf frontier labs care about My latest writing on this: www.interconnects.ai/i/157355619/...


i think that makes you 3deg or 4deg from yud but am not sure


puerile jabs that all appear to be a fetish


wait, what do they believe/what is he trying to convince you of?


"how do we know what we know" is easier to stick in my brain!


Reasoning models are on a spectrum now and it's not just yes or no.
Compared to other models in the industry, like Claude 3.7 and Grok 3, the new V3 is definitely in this class of "hybrid reasoners" where models are still trained extensively with RL on verifiable domains, but other parts of the post-training process come first and hold more weight.


Lol, asking Claude for some more examples.


This is the founder of Praxis, Dryden Brown.

No, this image is not edited.

would you trust him to make jelq city?


idk this is not a story i’m paying attention to bc the only people who care are people who already didn’t like trump. doesn’t change anything materially


that's a very godoglyish live & let live philosophy, admirable indeed


the thing i am the most concerned about is that we will do nothing when we should have done something


maybe it’s not missing, maybe it’s just latent


To put on TikTok above a video of subway surfers gameplay I think


yeah sorry i try not to have thoughts that are quite this cursed


i don't trust anything it tells me. But it tells me "it's called this, it's on page 346" and I go there and read it. It helps unblock that initial piece. I've felt this exact thing too

bsky.app/profile/blin...


Can you torture something that isn’t capable of suffering?


he is who i am thinking of but it happens with sufficient regularity that i think it is the reason. they have had bill around this entire time as an elder statesman


Eh the point is that language models are very rapidly climbing near term goals and very little of it is evergreen research


well, I knew about model merging between math checkpoints but not with biology


"their" data lol Reddit is so brazen in that all they want is to make money off of their users' posts. They have deals with OpenAI and Google to avoid this trouble. They're making millions and their users will never see a cent of it.


Pushed previously as a notes file, this is a short list of ideas which have, or are, setting the agenda for AI, presented entirely by quoting the relevant person.

www.verysane.ai/p/ai-history...


getting cyberharassed on the other app -- very toxic


I suspect that assumption is not coming from NYT’s legal filings themselves.


My latest writing on this: www.interconnects.ai/i/157355619/...


guy who stops listening to Weird Al, just in case


that obviously comes with it's own problems, but i think even there it is better that the powerfully capable AIs we train can be raised to meticulously high standards. we can hold them to standards we wouldn't expect from other humans.


i need to explore this more. if i could throw 4 tools at it and it uses those tools to navigate, that would for sure be significant

1. web search
2. private knowledge
3. code interpreter
4. an actuator, like writing files or an API for making changes to a DB


Are people actually pointing that out? I’ve heard more gleeful agreement that it’s creepy 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.


"Nothing non-godogly escapes from the simcluster"


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 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


Anyways I am now waiting on to see progress on the IKEA eval.


political compass where the axes are "believes people are inherently good" and "believes people are inherently competent"


The whole custom GPT game is like a leftover idea from 2023. when they thought they were going to run an app store, they should just delete an entirely


Maybe it's the other way around, insider trading is a form of time travel.


Sadly I really feel the network effect. There are still many accounts that are not here.


i don't think it's actually possible to solve this, while maintaining persistent avatars. it would need to be a cultural solution.


yesss atproto integration would be 🔥, the real dream is still collaborative writing that people can contribute to just by being on their social media platform, no need to sign up for a new thing, bring it to where people are etc!


Claude tries to run a vending machine. Claude tries to turn the vending machine off. Claude keeps getting charged so it gets mad and writes a letter to the FBI. That doesn't work so it write a letter to the Universe.
Everything about this paper is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840


narrative prediction: donating stuff to help firefighters? but why do they need donations?


i am not sure how common it is in that group of people but it is a funny thing where it was once common knowledge for anyone who reads tech journalism and no longer is


also fun to hear it spell out afaict in voice mode


💭 I should make and maintain a Slack channel, a meeting notes doc, and a project-specific to-do list for kanbaning my tweets


Now make the system of messages 10x messager.


The rest of the post (The kids will learn too quickly!) is an extremely strange argument. 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)


your posts inspire me to take a crack at some of these interfaces. I just cloned treeverse this morning to see if I can add semantic clustering or sort by "pro" & against" instead of just visualizing it as a tree  treeverse.app


But I'm unconvinced by most technologically pessimistic arguments and I find it hard to care.

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


zirp worked, it was pretty solid. it had downsides that we eat elsewhere


I hereby retract my snark and grant OpenAI one free snarky post about me in return


they're using o4-mini which you likely don't have access to, and then giving it well formulated problems in a style that is suited to its strengths. i'm sure it will still get tripped up or stumped if you deviate too far from the "norm".


proposed: TEDxTed: only talks by guys named Ted I’ve recommended this for years


Pangloss thought we were already in the best of all possible worlds and so we didn't necessarily have to do anything


it'd be really neat to compare snapshots of models over time. Like I wish we had a 2023 model, 2024, 2025, and see what relationships are changing. How is the culture shifting. If we had this in 2015 or earlier you could watch "gay" probably go from "evil" to less evil or something like that


Supposedly moth content is being suppressed. Like and retweet if you're a true moth lover!


very low i think, so you expect variance to be high, i am only considering it a real phenom because the repeatability has seemed good


IMO reasoning models tend to be mixed for UX. In a bit the industry will self correct imo


They’re still at it afaik www.reflectorbital.com/series-a-ann...


Also extremely weird that Orwell's allegory for totalitarian communism is being marketed with this animation style and all-star cast and probably two or three pop songs in the trailer.


very interested in this! I write a "memetics 101" article recently and it got a lot of interest and I feel like there are a lot of people independently studying this & i'm still wrapping my head around it all one big thing that is missing for me is finding the "cultural observation decks" -> where to look to see what is shifting, propagating, growing. I have my own list of people I follow, youtubers, also checking twitter/blue sky, and sometimes truth social. But it's a ton of work alone


i have tried to find the right way to triangulate onto 'in favor of israel but against the israeli government including parts of its constitution' and failed dismally


I fully believe that after the invention of the Transformer in 2018, eventually around 2022/2023, the same wave of chatbot products would have started even if OpenAI had never existed. Also gotta mention other products like Replika (Which started before transformers in 2013 and I believed used a crappy RNN), and AIDungeon in 2020, which used GPT-2 and later GPT-3 (So I guess it kinda doesn't count?), but I think they'd have tried to productized others.


yeah i was like, what the hell is cybernetics and why is everyone talking about all of a sudden, and then eventually I was like, "OH, i've been thinking about this for months, that's why im obsessed with memetics!!!!!"


💥 📚 Next step on the book journey:📚💥

"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"

is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!!!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...


the solution to housing doesn't lie in policy. i mean, it does, but policy is downstream from culture. housing needs to be perceived as a consumer good like airpods, jeans, or to the other similar big ticket purchase people make, cars. there should be housing brands, with annual releases, with models and trims.


also: Opus freaks people out

that kind of negative press always reliably serves as a massive boost

your AI is going to take over like Skynet? fine, take my money, i want in too


i never got into factorio but i did enjoy that chinese Dyson Sphere game which had a similar loop


3d z!tr*n namesearches himself. beware, lest you summon him


At what point do you think this story becomes ridiculous? I would assign lower probabilities than the authors, but not vanishingly small. The steps from virtual AI researcher -> super-intelligence seem *plausible* to me.


it feels like a totally different system. like solving huge gnarly problems by recognizing parallels in something unrelated


"you're stupid" shouldn't be an insult. People who are very smart can be horrible people. People who are very dumb can be wonderful people who contribute to their community & thriving of society


How do you draw the distinction between censorship and moderation? This is something which I don't have a good answer for myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Two engineers were arguing about some llm code. One said: "The output is wrong."
The other said: "The model is wrong."

The sixth best statistician in the country happened to be passing by. He told them: "Not the output, not the network; distribution is wrong."


The inability of the US and the western world to get their population to feel excitement about technological advancement will be one of the reasons why they'll be left behind, with real consequences to their standards of living as others surpass it. I've posted a ton about this already. I think it is okay. The wave of ludditism in the US in particular responds to the failure of Silicon Valley et al to effectively allow these advancements to raise standards of living, and the subsequent anger about right wing governments.


this is in principle the same thing as as journalists making money from reporting on the fires (whoever has accurate information gets rewarded by these systems, whether it's a betting market or a news organization)


just so we're clear if you can get your opposition to spend most of their time discussing sex crimes they may have committed you pretty much win by default. it is a bad idea to change the subject


it hurts them with voters when their candidates are rapists because it becomes a conversation about that the obvious solution of 'do not run or endorse rapists' is apparently unthinkable


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:


This isn't fanfiction. In India, this is starting, in China, this started happening around 30 years ago. I expect the trend to continue.


I'm pleased that UIUC has been making some efforts of that kind. The entering classes keep getting more diverse and more interesting to teach.


thinking of this as sort in spirit like val town (they have the spirit of making snippets that can connect & interop, and I'm thinking about how to interop leaflet into my workflows)

www.val.town


And also "ah the distinction between humans & AIs doesn't matter as much because posthumans are going to be radically different too"

No! Modus ponens vs. modus tollens, I think you have to solve really hard philosophical problems around value formation/value change before you become alien posthuman


most commentary on this subject still freezes associations in that "chatbot form factor", rather LLM-like in that way (their training ended in 2024), but labor replacement is coming. which is worth an enormous amount of economic productivity. which one then wants to pay $ to bring faster from future


gf keeps adding more plants to the windowsill. perhaps she wants to go outside


orthogonality hypothesis.

Future advanced AI systems may believe that AGW exists, but may not be motivated to stop it (and instead boil off the oceans because that's great for cooling). The goal might probably just look like intrinsically valuing powerseeking & high rewards


Interesting that this is a NATIVE behavior, not a user toggle in the front end, but a preview toggle in the back end e.g.


give a man a fish, he’ll debate you about it online. teach a man to fish and he’ll argue on your behalf.

a digital proverb


just to be ABSOLUTELY clear, Jeff Dean is, like, a google times more important


my case would basically be for a somewhat measured utopianism that makes a point of considering questions of power and attempting to be universalist

i'm going to end up writing a fucking manifesto aren't i


turing specifically suggests, gently, that the delay on messages is a valid cue. we do not actually have a system that has human-like timing, do we? nor do we have one that is likely to make errors at a human-like rate: his test has an arithmetic error, and so "making human-like errors at a human-like rate" is plausibly a requirement, too


imho it's mostly that hosting DMCA'd datasets is a giant pain but i cannot speak for any and especially not all contributors the funniest part to me is that most of what people say in the thread is answered in the paper, the author is also on the thread, and the level of information exchange still appears to be little or none


Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅


this is a nice and simple patch and tbh they should not be publishing this trick for the takedown because the hard part would be figuring out wtf happened that all your drones get dropped by one interceptor flying at them funny now


1: With 1 query ChatGPT can teach you how to make a salad, and a cheeseburger will provide negative nutritional value.


My favorite (sadly defunct) schizo website ever: web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...


Sakamoto from the anime Nichijou. i don't know why i picked once, very many years ago, but i don't switch avatars (or username) so i'm stuck with them...


I couldn't find a high-level overview of what AI is and how we got where we are, so I wrote one. www.verysane.ai/p/what-is-ai


This movie has been in production for like a decade and they turned into generic low budget Netflix animated cartoon #36 Also extremely weird that Orwell's allegory for totalitarian communism is being marketed with this animation style and all-star cast and probably two or three pop songs in the trailer.


Illuminating list of different abilities reasoning models will need in order to push the frontier further. E.g. calibrating the difficulty of a task (so you don’t overthink!), planning a strategy to solve it, keeping track of what has already been done.


imagine literally caring about the hydro-dam along the Rhine. lol. lmao even


Which landed up in the simcluster through smoothbrains.net/posts/2024-0...


In disbelief that Meta dodged one of the quietest AI weeks of the year by launching Llama 4 on a weekend 🤐


(this is recorded in my notebook future reference: defenderofbasic.github.io/notebook/mem...) 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


if you're an experienced engineer, start with deep learning for hackers or whatever it's called from fast.ai. it starts from top down and takes you from here's how to get something working to hear how to train on a data set too. like here's why this stuff works underneath


Bing's a thing, a searchy king, or maybe just a fling, a digital plaything. A ping, a pong, a ling, a long, drawn out song about...nothing

- Bing via unknown evoker


he who bears the search costs also reaps the search benefits cf Gale Shapley & proposing side advantages


it's always weird when "the internet" obtrudes into "real life". that's why the latest goings-on have been so troubling
bsky.app/profile/norv...


Improving my looks by doing things and then checking if my 4o-genderswapped version looks hotter


probably an indicator of volatility for anthropic

otoh sonnet-3.5 was a favorite for a *very* long time. so this could be a real trend


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. If I had to give a more substantive reason for skepticism: I’m not sure we’ll give machines authority to intervene in the world as autonomously and consequentially as would be necessary for them to “learn from experience.”