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Assuming a model is person-like, it gets even harder when we ask "who" the model is. Is it this particular model from today? What if it's a minor release version change, is it a ne…

I wanted to talk about Anthropic's "soul" document they include in Claude's prompt, some of the issues it might be causing, and point out what we're seeing now as we're seeing it p…

I'm actually quite surprized. From another article today, I discovered the IRS has a github repo with (what seems to be) XML versions of tax questions... surely some combination of…

I feel like these kind of things push us as a society to decide what exactly the purpose of school should be. Currently, it's been a place for acquiring skills but also a sorting m…

Thanks, the goal wasn't to get a full overview of the commercial space but really to understand more of the fundamentals of building, the limits and use-cases of agents in general.…

I wanted to dig into the hype around agents and figure out both the use-cases and quirks, so I wrote this little 'review'. I think, like most of the 'AI' sphere right now, they're …

I clicked - it's for a self-improvement week. I read through and I think it's an interesting initiative (lots of good stuff around holding self and others accountable, positive rei…

Really good point on open source and the nudges it provides, and definitely a point that isn't made often enough!

Thanks for the perspective. For me I think it's a matter of degree (I guess I was a bit "one or the other" when I wrote it). These things are also concerns and definitely shouldn't…

True... I was trying to define them the way (I think) companies are defining them (like what their alignment teams are looking at) and the way it's reported. I think in these speci…

Thanks! Yeah, there's a lot of "well, it's 'standard practice' now so it can't be wrong" going on in so many different ways here too...

I keep seeing "AI ethics" being redefined to focus on fictional problems instead of real-world ones, so I wrote a little post on it.

I tried to create an "intuitive" explanation of LLMs without going into the math but still removing a little of the "black box" sense people get around them...

I think there's something about the way this is written that's endemic to our time -- it basically feels right because it gives a possible explanation of current events that has so…

I feel like politics will be automated eventually. We have voters who express intents, then we have politicians who are (in theory) hired to best represent and interpret those inte…

"In the first year" is a good and well-needed qualifier for such analysis. Oftentimes we fall into the trap of defining a business success as "forever", anything short of that is d…

I am the right fool... A random internet link said "can we read all your email" an I clicked 'yes'. Welp. Time to do some major soul-searching and digital triage.

I don't know if this is a myth that ought to be perpetuated. The skilled CEOs I know are all exceptionally well-attuned to the problem space that their product solves, and their ow…

To me, it feels like it's started giving superficial responses and encouraging follow-up elsewhere -- I wouldn't be surprized if its prompt has changed to something to that effect.…