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the value of standard social science approaches, which attempt to discover long term regularities, is likely to depreciate in relative terms until the system settles down again.
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Every attempt, even an unsuccessful one, is an alignment failure.
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But a society that does not have anonymous speech does not really have genuine freedom of expression, and we should embed this principle into any digital identification system we attempt.
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In this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident were rogue, they were not truly sovereign.
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The USA has kept dribbling small amounts of military support for Ukraine because it gives the USA a great deal of leverage, the ability to both shape how Ukraine fights its war and even how European states prepare.
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Now maybe this isn't completely out of the question but this would be quite challenging uh to do and that's because the calculus is a little bit different. We're not just running compute to optimize for a use case. We're actually running the robot in the real world and using the hardware and attempting the task in the real world.
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Top-down works well if leadership is good enough to be in the weeds and be specifically correct. I think where it falls apart is where you don't actually know ground truth and then you attempt to manage people from above and that's where I think the term micromanagement comes from.
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It is totally okay for a young engineer to do something they've never done before just the way it's okay for them to do something that nobody has ever done before. But uh but if somebody has done it before in the world, uh our rule is you have to go find one of those people, call them, and ask them your advice. And you don't have to take it. You just have to hear it.
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
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And everyone was cognizant of okay, if someone comes up with a new idea, now it's our job to try to shoot it down. What What's wrong with this idea? Do Do you know what I mean? And if it could go if it could stand the the test of of that, then it was probably a decent idea.
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A Ribbon For Your HairTheir words
There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.
26 March
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Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.Their words
We might call what's going on now "taste-washing," an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
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once there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.
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A human would never do this. Number one, a human would never do hundreds of rollouts. Uh number two, when a person sort of finds a solution, they will have a pretty complicated process of review of like, okay, I think these parts that I did well, these parts I did not do that well, I should probably do this or that.
19 September 2025
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And I spoke with Anthony Beevor once about the attempt of British intelligence to assassinate Hitler, and he had seen some evidence that at the point in time, they dropped those plans because they knew that drugged Hitler or malfunctioning Hitler, which he was after, you know, the summer of 1943, is better for Britain than, you know, killing Hitler and then having to deal with, like, some kind of, you know, maybe the army would have taken over the country
22 August 2025
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Likewise, self-diagnosis should be understood as an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention to which patients do not have official access.
5 May 2025
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I don’t think anyone really believes that at the event horizon you’ll find a firewall. But it did lead to things like the entangled wormholes embroidering a black hole, which was born out of an attempt to address the concerns that AMPS raised. So it did lead to progress.
1 May 2025
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Longer test-time thinking improves an AI model's robustness to adversarial or unusual inputs.Their words
thinking for longer should be especially useful when the model is presented with an unusual input, such as an adversarial example or jailbreak attempt
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The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Endless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.
16 October 2024
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The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, YDIH for short, is not a lunatic fringe theory as its opponents often attempt to write it off. It’s the work of more than 60 major scientists working across many different disciplines, including archeology and including oceanography as well.
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So when evaluating control, we should count catching an AI red-handed as a win condition.
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We do this all the time: we attempt to reach the brain through the ears, but all we end up doing is vibrating the air.
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The Bomber MafiaTheir words
Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia – Gladwell’s podcast company Pushkin publishes my Cautionary Tales podcast, but is also experimenting with ‘enhanced audiobooks’. This is their first attempt and it’s a cracker.
28 October 2020
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The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 MillionTheir words
Selling is hard. Building a repeatable model with a team that you attempt to rapidly scale is even harder. Fortunately, Mark Roberge, who was one of the very first employees at HubSpot shares the processes and frameworks he used to build a sales machine. If you like the principles behind Lean Startups, then his data- and experiment-driven approach to sales will be very appealing.
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country DoctorTheir words
The book becomes an extended meditation on the practice of medicine, which is an attempt to engage a deep sense of fraternity.
26 July 2017
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Blocking paste on a password field makes passwords weaker, because people fall back to ones they can type.Their words
When a website blocks the pasting of passwords in an attempt to improve security, they force some users to weaken their passwords to the point where they're dumbed down to easily typed versions.
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Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthTheir words
Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.
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I use Dropbox to (attempt to) sync things among my several computers.
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