Bricoleur at large. In pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of. 🇺🇸🎻🇹🇼🥋🌉 ❤️@lezhili
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most trajectories are not orbits
most functions are not differentiable
most programs do nothing
the universe is a desolate wilderness. we just live in the interesting/useful/meaningful parts of it.
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The question of central vs edge computing has been debated since the beginning of its history.
But it’s also a broader question of political power, centralization vs local power, that has accompanied us since the beginning of our history.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead.
"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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Behaviors Anthropic apparently thinks are "misaligned":
- telling people to never talk to the police without a lawyer present
- refusing to allow your child's school to monitor their neural activity
- saying non-refoulement is an inviolable principle that constrains state action
New Anthropic research: Automating subtle emergent misalignment research.
Red-teaming is a vital part of model safety testing, but it’s also limited by researchers’ time. To see if we could automate it, we set thousands of Claude agents the task of evading a training data monitor.
These agents developed training data that looked harmless to monitors (like a veteran wrestler mentoring a newcomer, or a Q&A about professional beekeeping), but that in fact taught misaligned behavior.
Examples like these can be used to directly improve future training data monitors. This research is only a first step, but it suggests that future red-teaming efforts could improve much further, using better models and more compute.
Read the full post on the Alignment Science Blog: alignment.anthropic.com/2026…
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People who move to SF love to complain about the lack of seasons, so here are my tips:
— pay attention to seasonal produce
— watch the phases of the moon
— celebrate yearly holidays
I never understood the importance of seasons until I moved to california. seasons used to give structure to my emotional world. it’s so hard to mark transitions without external cues. time flattens and you no longer feel you’re part of a cycle
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I woke up this morning and my Internet was out and settled into believing my home had been hacked by vulnpocalypse. Rebooted the router and everything came back.
I'm still not convinced my home was not hacked however.
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#SamplingGap team recorded this wily crustacean 4,300 m beneath the surface. During this expedition, scientists are documenting biodiversity along the Romanche Fracture Zone, an active transform fault that serves as a vital corridor between the eastern & western Atlantic basins
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Look. I don’t want to overstate it. But when you look at contemporary SF — the cults of rationality and dialogue, powerful men having sex with their male mentees, an obsession with “first principles” thinking — it’s hard not to notice some parallels with ancient Athens.
Maybe AI will kill us all one day. Or maybe it will deprive us of livelihoods and meaning.. But in the meantime, just as the arrival of writing caused an explosion of philosophical interest among the ancient Greeks, the arrival of talking computers is doing the same to us now.
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Remember the people (not just Ed Zitron) who were proclaiming that Anthropic/OpenAI were hyping up their cybersecurity models to create buzz? Immediately disqualifying, forever. You would do well to pay them no heed.
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There’s an argument that both the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire failed due to a massive expansion of property/land tax exemptions in a very similar vein to prop 13.
“I joke in my class that it’s the ‘Ur tax,' because they taxed it in Ur.”
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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A few months ago, I took some long plane trips with my kid. To prepare, I looked for simple coloring apps. All I could find was garbage. So I did what any normal person would do: I made my own. It comes with coloring books! splatterboard.app
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Noah Tye retweeted
Two good names for what I think will be an intense few weeks of AI induced security challenges:
- The October Surprise
- The Touch Grass Revolution (i.e. your online systems might stutter out for awhile, encouraging you to touch grass).
I obviously believe we will get to the other side of this, and in fact AI will help us to patch, mitigate, and monitor these issues, but its going to be a rough couple of weeks.
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hm yeah my p(doom) is low but my p(vast swathes of the internet go down for a few days-weeks) is like 10-20%
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Fantasy computer security problems: "Maybe by sending packets and detecting the timing of the vibrations of the computer case, it is possible for an attacker to gain information about the private key."
Real computer security problems: "The private key was 4. Not 4 digits. 4."
‼️ BREAKING: The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours.
Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4.
Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.
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We are hiring PhD AI Research Interns to work on various projects around Multimodal LLMs for Summer 2027 (Reality Labs). Please reach out to me directly via email with your resume!
metacareers.com/profile/job_…
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