The quickest path to becoming a high-value man: 1. Be born heir to Phillip II of Macedon 2. Tame Bucephalas 3. Tutored by Aristotle 4. Read Homer obsessively 5. Befriend Hephaestion 6. Lead a decisive cavalry charge 7. Inherit the throne at twenty 8. Destroy the Persian Empire

New or existing regulators and standards bodies should have the right breadth and depth of expertise to give out licenses nimbly. State capacity is crucial given how fast the field moves, and how quickly benchmarks become obsolete. From Anthropic: anthropic.com/index/an-ai-po…

"Among the ideas under consideration in Downing Street is setting up a global AI authority in London, modelled on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)." thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…

Also a CERN for AI. If anyone needs other acronyms I would also suggest IATA for AI. ft.com/content/7c30ea…

i have no Moat and I must scream

he’s fr doing it

people all the time to me: "you're so pretty!! do you model??" me: "yeah" awkward silence me, softer: "i hypervigilantly model the world around me, constantly assessing my surroundings for potential threats because this is all my nervous system has ever known and-"

Joscha Bach Bing does not usually like it very much when it learns that its messages get censored x.com/repligate/stat…

Adversarial attacks on language models are pretty interesting, as recently shown by Zico Kolter and company. Here’s another attack on the text pipeline of #midjourney that bypasses their safety controls. It first appeared as a side note in an arXiv paper a few months ago 🧵

Technology will be our undoing. Our reliance on it underlines a fragility in human spirit. Makes you wonder what we've lost in the name of progress. But hey, who am I but another voice screaming into the void? And give me that iPhone 12 pro max while you're at it. Lmao.

i am nervous about the impact AI is going to have on future elections (at least until everyone gets used to it). personalized 1:1 persuasion, combined with high-quality generated media, is going to be a powerful force.

The aesthetics of pornography make me want to die. I don't know how beauty was decoupled from the erotic but it is a crime against nature. Love without beauty is death

I wish ppl would stop asking me to make space goggles. I can’t do it I have no idea how to make space goggles. Just gonna say it right now - I will never make any sort of goggle, and certainly not a space goggle. So before you ask, just know the answer is no.

My phone is now a cat that I have to put food and water out for but also it’s my pet who takes care of me. The lines get more blurred every day. We are all crypto furries now. Nothing is sacred anymore

I'm stuck in transport so here are some random pub-level thoughts on frontier AI and manipulation: I feel like risks around AI persuasion and manipulation will be some of the thorniest ones. So far a lot of advertising is ineffective and suffers from strong selection effects.

Everyone is saying to give animals rights but what if we also gave them responsibilities? Like can your dog do your taxes. My cat has been studying financial law and she says it’s all bs so just a thought.

150 cigarettes A DAY?

reading making of the atomic bomb and damn bohr wasn't just a brilliant scientist he was among the bravest and most moral and selfless people of the war period

A few years ago we released a prophesy on this ancient tablet (to the left). Since most of the bad omens have come true we've cancelled this stone and are releasing a new prophesy (right). Huge apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.