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AI plausibly increases the risk at the margin. Whether that increase is small or catastrophic depends on factors such as AI capability trajectories, biosecurity responses, governance, etc.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Any task can be made arbitrarily difficult or effectively impossible depending on how its context is framed.Their words
You can create an in-context impossible or very difficult task out of anything.
4 September
30 July
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AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks.Their words
Yeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based longer running coding tasks and it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable and depending on exactly your definition of of junior engineer it seems pretty spot-on I would say.
29 June
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Well, PRC HSR construction costs relative to the amount of tunneling aren't particularly low. France's are lower; Germany's are inconsistent, depending on whether money is wasted on excessive tunneling or on other things.
1 April
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I don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else
25 March
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An agent has no such learning ability. At least not out of the box. It will continue making the same errors over and over again. Depending on the training data it might also come up with glorious new interpolations of different errors.
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2 September 2025
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It's like something around 10% give or take three or four percent of people depending on the survey are using this say they're using this every day. Another sort of 15 to 20% of people say they're using it every week.
1 April 2025
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A manager's own individual technical output drops by roughly 10-20% per engineer they manage.Their words
you should expect to have something like 10-20% less individual output per engineer you manage, depending on how experienced you are, they are, etc., and with substantial week-to-week variance.
9 March 2025
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However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.
19 January 2025
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Industry benchmarks are a dangerous target because every company defines the underlying metric differently.Their words
So, taking also any benchmark that is derived from competition and saying this is where we should be is also so dangerous because it might not even be applicable depending on how you define the metric.
30 September 2024
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Civilization is triggered by humans learning to stay in one place, not by anything they invented there.Their words
For the vast majority of human existence, we’ve been nomadic and we’ve done these wider or tighter nomadic circles, depending on the geographic region, but they’d move. So once humans figured out how to stay in a place, that’s the initial trigger to what would become civilization.
20 November 2023
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Depending on your goals, needs, and tolerance for customization, Obsidian might be the perfect choice for you.
6 June 2023
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