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I think it would be entirely reasonable to ban death stars in private hands, the same way I think it's entirely reasonable to ban uranium enrichment in private hands. My point is t…

>If the biggest danger of LLMs is that they can hack traditional systems This is doing a lot of lifting. If the biggest danger of LLMs is they could uplift bioweapon development, t…

I see a very clear link, very capable AI models are clearly able to find and exploit cyber vulnerabilities at a speed and scale not possible before. In the right hands, that's clea…

And what are those ingredients for biology, which can be constrained as effectively as uranium enrichment? I'd argue there isn't anything which can easily be restricted or monitore…

What about uranium enrichment?

They can't. You have to explicitly give apps permission to access your photo library.

I think it's a lot harder to have this particular type of communications failure if you're writing on a chalkboard. Imagine trying to write out that whole slide, it would take fore…

I think this is clearly a joke

>The real tragedy is not that Hims exists, but that it works so perfectly. Every day, thousands of people choose their compounded weight-loss drugs over FDA-approved alternatives, …

I misunderstood your comment then, my assertion is that models which have the same capabilities as current models will be cheaper in the future. I have no doubts that models with m…

Want to bet? I'll give you 5:1 odds that tokens from a model with some specific benchmark performance (we can sort out the specific benchmarks or basket of benchmarks if you want t…

In my opinion most Anthropic models are the opposite, scoring well on benchmarks but not always way on top, but quietly excellent when you actually try to use them for stuff.

What would convince you that a system is too dangerous to release?

There was certainly some client side censorship, but also the model weights clearly had some of this baked in. You can try yourself by asking the same queries to r1 hosted by a US …

As someone born in 1997 and working in the software industry, one thing I’ve learned is that the discipline of software engineering is sometimes mostly about understanding the hist…

Didn't know I wanted it, but I now really want P2P iMessage between mountain summits

3D photo/video features did come to the pro phones flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID is in the new OS, it identified a plant genus in one of my photos yesterday. Pretty cool!

Eric Gilbertson has become more than a legend in the Pacific Northwest mountaineering and peak bagging community, in part by revising the list of 100 highest peaks in the state wit…

EOR oil is lower carbon than non-EOR oil. Greenwashing seems excessive, there is no fraud here, everyone is very upfront about what they are doing.

Carbon in the atmosphere is a stock and flow problem, even if we get to net zero emissions, we have just stopped the problem from getting worse. At that point, we need carbon captu…

> The nowcast produced the following estimates: • The biocapacity for the world in 2023 is estimated at 1.5 global hectares per person. • Humanity’s Ecological Footprint is 2.6 glo…

My guess is Tim Cook didn't wear one because Apple's media team didn't want every news article to use the screen grab as the header image (which is what happened with Zuc). They wa…

By not generating the fixed json structure (brackets, commas, etc...) and skipping the model ahead to the next tokens you actually want to generate, I think

I wouldn't be surprised if by making code 5x cheaper to write, aggregate demand for code goes up by at least 5x, and possibly more. The history of computing is full of technologies…

Honestly a very confusing move for Twitter, third party client users are probably the easiest to monetize users that Twitter has. They have already demonstrated that they get enoug…