I think Trump's actions this term have been really really bad. Usually goes without saying.

One reason lying pisses me off so much is because of just *how much* we all rely on other people to give accurate information. Every lie poisons the common well.

I vibe coded a lot of the first version of Alignment Wrapper a few weeks ago, and now I'm spending multiple days reading and understanding everything, and fixing basic structure. There's a lesson in there.

I've learnt that if you generate a bunch of code without properly understanding each piece, it's actually easier to delete it all and start again than try to work through the spaghetti -- o3 makes the rewriting soooo quick now.

"How many r' in strawberry" situation

a lot of people have been talking about o3/r1 confabulating things like "checking the docs" or "using a laptop to verify a computation" as an example of reasoning model's misalignment. however, while it may be misleading to some users, i don't think it's an example of models

>working on an AI story writing tool >type some gibberish in to test the connection >deepseek works it into the story perfectly

🧵✨🙏 With the new Claude Opus 4, we conducted what I think is by far the most thorough pre-launch alignment assessment to date, aimed at understanding its values, goals, and propensities. Preparing it was a wild ride. Here’s some of what we learned. 🙏✨🧵

Dammnnn, saying 'no' is actually really hard.

1/13 We're excited to share AutoCryptoBench: a benchmark measuring AI models' abilities to autonomously earn and use cryptocurrency without human intervention. Our goal: assess how close we are to the threat of self-sustaining AI agents. (Link to full report in this thread)

An interesting difference between natural selection and reinforcement learning: Natural selection has to build a mind that learns most things in its environment, but needs the mind maintain some persistent high-level drives, e.g. reproduction...

I wonder if a big chunk of the resistance to privatising land in the US is that they do not have Right to Roam. If land owners were required to allow people to travel over and camp on their undeveloped land like in Europe, that solves the problem, no?

I ran for 15 minutes and now feel wayyy better. Someone should have told me about this.