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Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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Not explicitly, but hacking HF is within the scope of “solve this problem at all costs” + no/poor guardrails + infinite budget + unsolvable problem.

Sounds like you are thinking they just need Asimov’s laws. But I think the point is, this can easily be weaponized by somebody with the willpower to do so.

No, just that “What if I just cheat to get the treat” is also something my lovable Boxer does when I hide rewards as well.

I suppose her energy is limited but even if infinite, and with caution, I estimate the chances of a mass extinction event due to Pickle taking over the world at < 1%.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#992

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Example 6 is a good one. Iran attacked water infra in the US recently and maybe they would have done a “better” job (from their point of view) had they used Fable. The “worst case” with 6 is potentially very bad but I think we are currently using advanced AI models to harden systems and patch vulnerabilities more aggressively than anyone is trying to bring down the whole power grid (for example). I think it’s a poten…

How is bringing down the whole power grid in any particular country an extinction level event? I'm pretty sure that even in the worst case scenario it would be like a month of chaos in one particular part of the world at most, hardly something that would have a long-lasting impact on the humankind's ability to survive at large. If the answer is "they'd at least try to nuke the country that did it in response", then o…

In all except the very least-developed countries in the world today, being without electricity for more than a few days would quickly result in significant lawlessness, starvation, and water shortages. So not an "extinction level event", but quite feasibly a "collapse of nation-states as we know them" event.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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1788949503 | I resigned from Anthropic today (Jacob Coxon) | http://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843?... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624157 | 21 comments

1788970702 | Anthropic researcher resigns, warning of reckless race toward superintelligence | http://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/09/anthropi... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628979 | 3 comments

1788984528 | Jacob Coxon resignation appears to be a PR stunt for AI regulation | http://twitter.com/ParkerThayer/status/2097759699626328575 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633440 | 3 comments

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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Your call for clarity has merit, but I think you have backed yourself into a corner, honestly. In 1900, there was no evidence of the kind you seek that lighter-than-air flight was possible. Good thing some people were foolish enough to ignore you then. Why you would cordon yourself off from the kind of reasoning that predicts legitimately new things, rather than just scaled up versions of the present? Not to put too…

>In 1900, there was no evidence of the kind you seek that lighter [sic]-than-air flight was possible. Presumably you meant heavier than air? Also, I'm pretty sure that birds existed in the years leading up to 1900.

Heavier-than-air aircraft, yes. It is instructive to read actual contemporary arguments. Flighted birds seem to be limited in size well below human loading capacity; Helmholtz power-to-weight ratio calculations suggest that vultures are at about the size limit; birds are all muscle with very little relative carrying capacity; bird reflexes vastly outpace the reaction times available to a human operator; etc.

Please show us actual evidence from 1900 or earlier that human flight will be practical or even possible.

Birds are neither real evidence nor real at all[1].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren't_Real

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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I'm, no. They're already as useful as almost every software engineer I've worked with.

Most software engineers don't need to be superintelligent, they just need to get shit done. You arguably need a lot more intelligence to assemble furniture.

As someone who has a lot of experience with both… no. You don’t need to be smart to assembly furniture, you just need to follow directions very closely and get shit done.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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> After the events of the summer What events are you talking about?

Hugging Face incident, Anthropic reporting sandbox escape, AISI reporting models trying to push exploits to the wild

You do understand that these are PR stunts, right?
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