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So curious who the anonymous example is

These are not solopreneurs. They’re entrepreneurs.

You may be interested in a recent AI safety paper by Redwood Research. In it, they have GPT-4 generate solutions to coding problems, but instruct it to insert backdoors into the so…

Standard Ebooks is fantastic! In fact, I love what they're doing so much that I actually built a little SaaS product on top of their ebook collection. The site is called Modern Ser…

Slight correction: Portuguese Man-o-wars are actually considered multicellular organisms. They’re weird organisms composed of multiple distinct animals that cannot survive independ…

Rectangle has worked well for me in the past, but recently, it's been losing a lot of windows. I often have to restart Brave to get Rectangle to be able to control it again.

Not necessarily, no. Open source models are already being used for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Any safety controls on a model are easily stripped off once its weights are publ…

You contradict yourself

I can't help but think of the similarities between Frankenstein's Monster and AI. Both are human-created intelligences that learn to understand us by observing our behavior and wri…

Just linking to the education tab of her profile is misleading. Many people in AI safety are young. She has more professional experience than many leaders in the field. https://www…

Execute Program is one of the best tools for learning a programming language out there. I’ve worked through several of your courses on TypeScript and the Modern JavaScript, SQL, an…

There are official docs, they just aren’t very good.

You could get the exact same alerting benefit with 1/10 the Bitcoin, or less. There is no tax penalty for moving bitcoin. You should definitely move most of this elsewhere.

Alternative explanation: ketamine isn’t better than placebo for treating depression when given to someone who’s under anesthesia. You have to be awake. Similarly, I bet that if you…

Not pictured: the cost of switching to DynamoDB when this service inevitably gets shut down in two years.

It makes sense the CEO would either step down or be forcibly removed by the board. Unity's mishandling of the Runtime Fee policy announcement has caused permanent damage to their r…

Fantastic, clear, and thoughtful essay. This should be added to every list of recommended readings on the subject of AI risk.

I would never work for this company.