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Why on Earth would anyone take anything this man said to be informative about anything, other than what he thinks will currently sound best that minute to the current Zeitgeist tha…

You can turn that off in settings.

The safety teams are trivial expenses for them. They fire the safety team because explicit failure makes them look bad, or because the safety team doesn't go along with a party lin…

Came here to say the same.

There's intrinsic limits to vanilla transformer stacks. Nobody knows where they are. We don't know how unvanilla Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.3 are. We don't know what's in development or whi…

Every time somebody writes an article like this without any dates and without saying which model they used, my guess is that they've simply failed to internalize the idea that "AI"…

"2024 AI was a horse". People really like to imagine that the last 6 months constitute their true observation of the new eternal state of the future.

It would not surprise me at all for bb7 to exceed Graham's number. Just a Kirby-Paris hydra or a Goodstein sequence gets you to epsilon zero in the fast-growing hierarchy, where Gr…

Thanks to OpenAI for voluntarily sharing these important and valuable statistics. I think these ought to be mandatory government statistics, but until they are or it becomes an ind…

Privacy.com has always been a working general solution to this, for me. Disposable CC aliases with spending caps.

I have tried to tell my legions of fanatic brainwashed adherents exactly this, and they have refused to listen to me because the wrong way is more fun for them. https://x.com/ESYud…

My god, how long has it been since you tried to use an AI model?

Doubling the productivity of 20% of workers, in cases where a lower price doesn't increase demand, can shift prices in the whole system as unemployed artists compete with other art…

Translators? Graphic artists? The omission of the most obviously impacted professions immediately identifies this as a cooked study, along with talking about LLMs as "chatbots". I …

Poor eyesight is evolutionarily recent (not enough sunlight exposure in childhood, rare to find in hunter-gatherer societies). Baldness won't kill you.

And if it isn't already false it will be false in 6 months, or 1.5 years on the outside. AI is a moving target, and the oldest people among you might remember a time in the 1750s w…

If the LLM did anything besides try to explain the Efficient Market Hypothesis in response, it failed.

Hadn't seen that before, and despite being bog-standard Bostrom it's still more of an attempt to hold a theory than I'd seen associated with him before. Note nonoverlap of writing …

I wonder who wrote this? Doesn't sound like Altman's voice. I wonder who theorized this? Altman isn't known for having models about AGI. To the actual theorist: Claiming in one par…

No major AI advancements for 7 months? Guess everyone's jobs are safe for another year, and after that we're all dead?

This seems like decent alignment-positive work on a glance, though I haven't checked full details yet. I probably can't make it happen, but how much would someone need to pay you t…

If you do build a superintelligence, you don't have an ASI, the ASI has you.

Superintelligence is not the same branch of the tech tree as drones or surveillance.

Meanwhile, no luck getting it to build something that reverses a GIF. (Also, weirdly, no luck with finding a working GIF reverser online.) (Trying to reverse this: https://www.tumb…

lol, like the government doesn't have 3 more Mersennes they keep secret so they can verify potential First Contact situations