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Multiple readings An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Research 16d ago
Catala law programming language paper

Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

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Luis Villa

“Yeah overall the vast majority of law won’t be usefully provable in this way, only specific things (like tax law) that have highly structured logics. So I bet a lot of admin law? Anyway here is one of the key papers: arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198”

7 experts discussed this · 21 posts
D. Hicks: ffs
Grace: They should’ve compressed it into a 3 minute slop music video obviously
Luis Villa: gonna solve constitutional law this weekend
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Established Models & releases Release 14d ago
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Anthropic open source vulnerability service

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software

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Tim Kellogg evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Luis Villa mackuba.eu
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Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.anthropic.com/research/lau...”

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Claude for critical infrastructure Anthropic has a new program where open source projects can apply to use a new service for code review to spot vulnerabilities Users must prove that they’re actually maintainers, and projects must be critical infrastructure…”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
evacide: I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.a…
evacide: What do you do if you are the core maintainer on a project and your options are "more vuln reports than you can ever hope to triage" or "someone finds a critical 0day in your project and either exp…
evacide: I assume that the reason requests are considered on a case-by-case basis is that they think they will be able to catch all of these.
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Established Safety & security Resource 19d ago
AI safety whistleblower legal fund

AI Safety Whistleblower Legal Defense Fund - LASST

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Luis Villa

“eg this (which I just learned about and is great!) should have a multi-million dollar rainy day fund and a large PR budget on top of a legal budget. lasst.org/ai-safety-wh...”

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Luis Villa: Would love for some folks who’ve benefited materially from shitty companies to fund serious, organized, ongoing whistleblowing protection efforts rather than just tooting their own horns.
James Grimmelmann: Sorry to bother @riana.bsky.social about this twice in one day, but at least LASST does have a whistleblower legal defense fund.
Luis Villa: eg this (which I just learned about and is great!) should have a multi-million dollar rainy day fund and a large PR budget on top of a legal budget. lasst.org/ai-safety-wh...
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4 experts · 27 posts · 15d ago
Luis Villa Dan Hon austegard.com apenwarr.ca
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Luis Villa: I would like this to be right, but I don't think it is. Once upon a time I looked semi-seriously on what it would take to do self-hosting on an Android base: apps fully sandboxed; installable from …
Luis Villa: Really deserves a whole essay, but: capitalist (really, Venture Capitalist) control of software creates enshittification in a very specific, predictable dynamic; third-party control of our data has…
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5 experts · 10 posts · 18d ago
Sung Kim Cameron Luis Villa tweety fish Kyle
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Sung Kim: Look at what Meta did. They acquired Manus because Manus understood agents. Meta later had to unwind it, but the underlying point still stands: product instinct matters.
Sung Kim: OpenAI’s Dev Day 2026 was an unmitigated disaster. Now they’re trying to recover over the next 28 days. We’ll see. If it were up to me, I’d fire the cool, hip, highly educated people and hire more …
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4 experts · 14 posts · 11d ago
Tim Carmody Luis Villa Amy Hoy B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Amy Hoy: summarizing text is actually an incredibly difficult task (for people) and i’m continuously surprised that it’s positioned as being trivial
Amy Hoy: i assumed so. but yeah diff models will work better for diff stuff as jake says, but imo none of them are great at it except the frontier models
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4 experts · 10 posts · 15d ago
Luis Villa Doll Isaiah Bishop jeremymorrell.dev
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Doll: People are not thinking long horizon in the replies. AI is going to keep getting better at coding and the math for the SAAS calculations is shifting under everyones feet and you just havent noticed…
Isaiah Bishop: the issue with this is that SaaS is quite cheap and often there is data and legal seperation thats quite nice. The idea youre paying for the code isnt quite right
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3 experts · 13 posts · 16d ago
Andrew Selbst Luis Villa Blake E. Reid
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Andrew Selbst: I am transparent about my views in class and I emphasize that they are mine and people are free to disagree if they have reasons. I think being intellectually honest about arguments’ strengths and …
Andrew Selbst: That was my stance long before the magic machine could tell them my views too.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Luis Villa Blake E. Reid
Blake E. Reid: AI “parent hacks” to avoid the high prices of the enshittified school photo industrial complex are basically just shifting around the deck chairs on the Negative Externality Titanic™
Blake E. Reid: So many facets of the U.S. economy have devolved into Negative Externalities in a Trenchcoat
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2 experts · 3 posts · 18d ago
Dashiell Luis Villa
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Luis Villa: Many of the core AI developers agree with this completely! But it tends to also correlate with other beliefs that boil down to “it won’t matter because once they get that smart they’ll enslave (or …
Dashiell: Writing and thinking about this absolutely exists, but for the most part only in small sub-communities. The closest thing to a public discussion has been from Amanda Askell and the very light "mode…
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