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I'm not convinced that there's any amount of monkey-patching you to fix the problem of "we now have AI that actively needs strong containment measures lest it start coordinating in…

More or less, yeah. I'm not a proponent of it, I just think there's enough inertia in that direction of short-term vastly-superintelligent AI. Maybe we can figure out how to become…

You build without knowing by delegating to a system that extrapolates what it knows about you and what you want, and is able to execute on that to deliver faster, better, and more …

I think pieces like this miss the forest for the trees. Software is the bottleneck for a vast array of economic activities. Attention from intelligent people is most of the rest. B…

only a matter of time before some marketer figures out they can get promoted by branding a generation of chips 0nm

I got the X4 and liked it enough that I used it a ton even though it turned out to be too big to Magsafe onto my phone. In fact, I liked it enough that I also got the X3 on sale so…

In LLMs, much like in humans, agency and misalignment are two sides of the same coin.

this comparison seems kind of pointless if one model has vision and the other doesn't. obviously a model that can see is going to beat a blind model at making a video game.

layoffs don't explain reassigning half your engineers to work as labelers

Have they? I don't like it either but the headline bull predictions(reliable agents and most code written by AI by mid-2026, dramatic progress against jailbreaks, prompt injection,…

You can infer a pathological liar's true intentions from the incentives they find themselves subject to, but not a zealot's.

I've really come around to trusting OpenAI a lot more than Anthropic the past few months. Reading between the lines of his own output, Dario Amodei comes off as both a dogmatic bel…

A market with only a single good makes that good infinitely valuable for exchange purposes. No trade can happen - everyone is just sitting on a big pile of the only thing that matt…

There will be a brief(or, depending on the underlying rules of reality ASI uncovers, not-so-brief) period where A and B do overlap - we have superintelligence but still have to run…

This is a fun peek into the economic implications of RSI/ASI. Because it's so infinitely valuable that it basically destroys all markets, labs will eventually do stuff like stop re…

it'd be really funny if we got the RSI -> ASI world, all human labor became worthless, etc., but everyone with any money in the labs also lost their shirts because OSS is maximally…

I was going to say that this is the first physical quine but then I remembered that we actually had that a few billion years ago.

A US-China AGI ban treaty could prevent superintelligence indefinitely. Data centers are hard to hide. Have fun buying GPUs when you're cut off from all global payments. America wo…

I don't know if over half of the content on the internet was AI-generated but over half of this article definitely was.

Not the article's main point but I've never liked the "google killing products" complaints. People always talk about how big companies fail because they're unwilling to take risks …

I think AI companies have actually broadly adopted the right strategy. There's no way to sugarcoat or hide that your company's pitch is "your salary is our TAM, btw our product is …

I have no experience in the CTF scene so I'm curious - why not lean in and design the puzzles with an AI harness like the one top teams use in the loop and use the(presumably) expe…

Agent-assisted programming is fundamentally the skill of directing and supervising agents. I don't see any reason to believe that working a job where you direct and supervise agent…

It's bad code, but it's not pretending to be better than it is.

I find AI code usually looks worse than it actually is. It's overly verbose, confusing, and littered with fallbacks that mean that if something goes wrong it falls through a millio…