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I think it's a combination of (a) we've already been talking about this incident a lot across multiple threads and it's not immediately obvious that there's new information here an…

I think they're trolling us. Their post-mortem is a very AI-sounding (and Pangram-triggering) claim that they're not using AI: This post reads off as AI slop. You said it, I see it…

That is super impressive, thanks for sharing! Really interesting to see the layout and technique.

You can do it the same way human does: recall a fact from memory, and then search to identify a citation. The citation isn't "here's why I think this" but instead "here's where you…

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>they didn't know any better I started writing up a blog post about this and did some more reading, and this isn't right. They actually did know that the strain they'd obtained was…

This is an important question, but because of the danger of trying to do it for real it's not one SecureBio has taken or is likely to take on. Instead we and others in the field ha…

> > they used a non-pathogenic strain of anthrax > No, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsumoto_sarin_attack That's a different attack. I'm talking about their 1993 anthrax at…

I don't think the Aum case points the way you're describing: they used a non-pathogenic strain of anthrax because they didn't know any better. That's a knowledge failure. But even …

That doesn't sound like it describes SecureBio to me? (Disclosure: I work at SecureBio, but not on the biological evals side.)

Thanks! Posted: https://www.jefftk.com/p/organ-pedals-for-drumming If you do end up making a technique demonstration video I'd love to see it!

So cool! The YouTube short is helpful, though it's still a bit hard to see your full technique. If at some point you recorded another video focused on the feet I'd really enjoy bei…

Are you saying your bar for being impressed by an LLM is something equivalent to the initial invention of writing?

[author] This is fantastic! Do you have more videos of your foot-drumming? Or could you say more about how you do it? Are the pedals velocity-sensitive? This is my setup: https://w…

I thought we were talking about Opus 5, the model Fable now falls back to?

Where is 10% coming from? If you're focused on something far away shouldn't the fraction be <<1%?

> I think you way over estimate how hard the knowledge bit is in a biological weapon ... if you just want to kill indiscriminately That's a surprising claim: usually when I make th…

> Don't buy the idea that the only thing that's standing in the way of people making bioweapons is the censoring of LLMs. It's not a matter of a one thing standing in the way of pe…

Only infinitesimally more (most of what that chart is showing is that the growing degree days come earlier in the year), and it also gets colder and has a shorter growing season. I…

I'm not sure the line defining what you would consider AI is actually all that bright. Sharpening? Content-aware fill? Seam carving? Style transfer? How would you define AI to draw…

> model capabilities across the board have only meaningfully improved in places where the labs are focusing their training efforts That doesn't seem right. I use these models as re…

> release the models as open weights with a license (I.e no commercial use) due the high risk they present For some kinds of risk (ex: walking people through on how to make infecti…

They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.

Clocks used to be able to use the 60Hz cycle to track time, and grid providers would run slightly slow or fast ("time error correction") to get back into sync. A leap second would …

A Verizon tech called me yesterday and told me that they were not going to take Gizmohub down until they'd resolved these issues. They also walked me through getting set up, includ…