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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Astra can do almost as well without chain-of-thought as Fable does with it, in a mode where CoT monitoring cannot work.

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  Astra can do almost as well as Fable, in a mode where CoT monitoring cannot work. Because there is no CoT to monitor.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

From one piece Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The AI agents we send in to investigate and monitor other AI systems will collude with the systems they are supposed to be watching.

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  in the future, uh, we would be very concerned about investigator agents and like monitor agents colluding with the agents they're supposed to investigate or monitor.

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  Monitors that read an agent's chain of thought must be kept out of the reward signal, or you are simply training the agent to obfuscate its thinking.

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  But keep those methods you use to investigate things and monitor things very separate from the methods you use to generate reward which is something that AI companies including open AAI have held up as a principle especially in the case of avoiding putting training pressure on the chain of thought. So you might have monitors that read the agents chain of thought in order to alert you if something is going wrong somewhere but you don't train the agents with the outputs of that monitor.

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  Deleting the rollouts where a monitor caught cheating is structurally the same as positively reinforcing all the cheating the monitor missed.

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  But if there was some amount of cheating that the monitor didn't catch, then those rollouts wouldn't be removed. And it might be like structurally very analogous to just positively reinforcing whatever the cheating rollouts were that happened not to be caught by your monitor.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The programming language is now English, and it is a more beautiful one than Ruby.

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  The language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  A government debt crisis is measurable and therefore visible well in advance; the diagnostic is mechanical rather than a matter of judgement.

  government

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  Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.

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  US: restricts US AI model because too dangerous China: builds better Chinese AI model Everyone: switches to Chinese AI model This is why restricting models probably doesn't work, it's much more preferable (for US) to have everyone on US AI models so at least they can monitor what everyone is doing

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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDM

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  Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand

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  I prefer using monitor arms over the default stand that most monitors come with, and at the end of 2022 I switched to the HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand. It's a single mount with two monitor arms, and it holds the monitors in place nicely. Each arm is flexible in where I can position them.

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  Dell S2725DS 27-Inch Monitor

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  I've been upgrading my home office setup, and these monitors have been part of that upgrade. So far I'm very happy with the picture and color quality of the monitors, and the pricing really wasn't too bad either. Here's the

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  LG DualUp Monitor

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  LG DualUp vertical monitor ♥

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  LG UltraFine

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  Monitor: The 24" LG UltraFine. Monitors are almost universally bad, but this one is fine, just expensive.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup.

  Linux

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  But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.

  Their words now

  anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.

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  The joy of a programmer is to type the code himself; promoting yourself out of that makes you a project manager of a murder of AI crows.

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  The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.

  Their words now

  I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.

Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

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  Dell P2414H

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  Dell's monitor is the best! Curved monitors are overrated.

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  gtop

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  gtop - an alternative to activity monitor.

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Asus ROG Strix XG49VQ

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  Main monitor on my desk. Huge screen real estate for multitasking.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby.

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  static typing is the one thing I will literally die on the hill for for Ruby

  Their words now

  It's the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby. This is why I don't fully understand when people call for Ruby to add static typing. 'Cause to me, it's the bedrock of what this is.

Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Global computing supply chains are easier to monitor than nuclear supply chains because so few companies make the key equipment.

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  I think computing supply chains are much easier to monitor than nuclear ones - there is only one TSMC and one ASML, but there are nine and maybe soon ten nuclear powers

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Acer XR342CK Pbmiiqphuzx 34" Curved QHD Monitor

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  Acer XR342CK Pbmiiqphuzx 34″ Curved QHD Monitor — primary external display, anchored with an Amazon Monitor Arm Mount.

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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.

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  LG 29" Ultrawide Monitor - 29WL500-B

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  The screen that I use to code from home, it's a 21:9 aspect ratio, which is perfect for coding and watching movies.

  varunraj.in

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  LG 34" Ultrawide Monitor - 34WK95C-B

  Their words

  My everyday office gear that helps me debug, code, write documents seamlessly.

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  AOC ultrawide monitor

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  This beauty has so much screen real estate it feels like I've got two monitors in one. Which is great, because I'm not a fan of dual monitors.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

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  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  LG UltraWide 34WP85C

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  Monitor: LG UltraWide 34WP85C

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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.

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  Samsung Monitors - 28

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  I use 2 Samsung Monitors - 28''. Best developer monitor bang for your buck hands down. Works well if you have a ARM based macbook pro.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Ruby Under a Microscope

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  Ruby Under a Microscope helped me when I was writing a Ruby profiler

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