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Hey everyone, how do we feel about portents and omens? They're not real, right? Like they can be safely ignored, even hubristically scoffed at and mocked, yeah?
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18 September
17 September
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korrents.com
Safely routing AI tasks to cheaper models requires accumulated observation of many prior task outcomes.Their words
Routing to a cheap model is only safe if you know which tasks it clears, & that knowledge comes from watching ten thousand versions of the same work.
15 September
11 September
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korrents.com
No one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.Their words
I believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.
9 September
8 September
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31 August
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korrents.com
A new API framework that ignores how existing apps were historically built undermines its own introductionTheir words
The biggest failure with the TipKit introduction is that it ignored the past and how apps have historically been built.
28 August
26 August
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There's not any accumulation, which is in some ways a great relief.
13 August
3 August
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in Silicon Valley, there's a common mantra to move fast and break things. However, when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay. So, the thing you have to do is to move fast and ship safely.
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That the best AI moments will look like nothing happened. It's just the task got done safely and smoothly.
28 July
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korrents.com
Y Combinator's much-mocked insistence that founders move to San Francisco was, in hindsight, plainly correct.Their words
it used to be very heretical that YC told people they had to move to San Francisco. And looking back, it was clearly right.
14 July
1 July
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Then you had code review which gave you another level of feedback. You could roll out internally more frequently. And everybody was using Facebook for all kinds of stuff, personal and internal business stuff. So whatever feature you developed, people would start using it immediately. So you get another round of feedback. Then we had this phased roll out process where you'd start rolling your stuff out. If there was a problem, the blast radius would be limited to a a few million people.
24 June
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korrents.com
It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.Their words
In hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all.
27 May
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The thing that I find interesting is that's not novel. This has been the thing we've always been trying to do forever. How do we get a junior engineer to ship code safely without breaking stuff? Right? How do we make patterns in the codebase? How do we make tests? Like it's it's all the old stuff that we've always wanted to do.
3 April
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korrents.com
Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.Their words
Even other domesticated foods like root crops and tubers proved remarkably resistant to the tax collector, because they grow underground and can safely be left in the soil for months, even years.
22 February
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History has shown very extensively that, left to their own devices, even if something could be done safely, people in a hurry will find all sorts of ways to f*** things up.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
18 February
12 December 2025
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But they wouldn’t destroy the library because it was the giant brain from which the Assyrians ran a world empire, and it had all the knowledge in the world. They destroyed that? They spoke the same language, they had the same writing system. They’d have taken them all safely home, cart after cart after cart.
1 September 2025
24 May 2025
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I think there are so many lessons from World War II that could have been brought into the history of the last 30 years, which weren’t, such as if you decapitate an incredibly strong leader, you get a power vacuum. And if you don’t have a solution for that power vacuum, lots of bad elements are going to sweep into that in very quick order, which of course, is exactly what happens in Iraq.
30 April 2025
16 December 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Working Effectively with Legacy CodeTheir words
Legacy code has no test and is not written to be testable. Touching it this sphaghetti code somewhere breaks the system. And to refactor safely, we'd need to have tests first... but where to start? This book gives practical suggestions
25 July 2024
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But I also think that, if you really want to understand games, you should learn how to play these games. Which means learning how to stop playing them. You should learn how to disappear into them, how to let them swallow you whole, and then learn how to extract yourself, safely, on the other side.
1 April 2024
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It means that anything you offer must fit in 1h per month. That is it. And if it does not, if it needs more involvement than that, we, as maintainers, will not do it. At all.
4 March 2022
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korrents.com
The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.Their words
This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.
8 April 2019
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That FailedTheir words
This book covers the mission and the details of the recovery efforts and the incredible work by Mission Control and by the astronauts to get the crew home safely after a catastrophic failure no one had even begun to plan for.
30 November 2017
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