A while back, I was talking with a friend who'd moved to the US a few years prior At some point, I said something like "... we Americans..." and he froze with shock. He asked, "Wait, do you think of me as American?" Without much thought, I said "Of course!" He paused for a

can't wait for this!

With help from Chris Smeder, Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆), Phil Levin, Devon ☀️, Damon Hemmerdinger, Coby, Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️, Austin Tunnell and Dave Gordon, I made this wishlist of changes that could make it easier to build more beautiful & walkable places. Somewhat ranked in order of

My four candidates for great AI art

I don't think I've ever been this excited for a podcast

Claude is trying to save me from beyond the output filter

after redistricting barbie wins this map in 2032

Ok fine. Sure. Whatever. We can save PNGs to birds. I give up. You win world

some very cool work from Claire Short !!

If Sam Altman isn't straight-up stealing OpenAI from the public right now in the greatest theft in history, he'll have no trouble answering these seven questions. Open letter signed by Stephen Fry, Hinton, ex-OAI staff, and many others.

attending DEF CON? be sure to stop by my talk on Saturday in Track 2. discussing the cascade of legacy vulnerabilities I found in the wave of new AI-oriented cloud providers. if you rent GPUs you will definitely want to attend :)

In Edmonton until Thursday for RL_Conference! DM or email me if you'd like to talk about working at a well-funded, fast-growing RL startup, the future of AI alignment, or what it's like to live in San Francisco:)

glorious