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Multiple readings Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Analysis 4d ago
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Amodei pace AI frontier essay

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

15 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · David Kaye, Jane Rosenzweig
“i'm willing to take dario amodei at his word that he wants restraints on AI. and his proposals are not necessarily bad. but two things (inter alia) undermine his claim. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...” evidence ↗
15 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Ethan Mollick Justin Hendrix Tim Kellogg Kate Klonick Kevin A. Bryan rat king 🐀 👑 Chrissy Farr +7
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“i'm willing to take dario amodei at his word that he wants restraints on AI. and his proposals are not necessarily bad. but two things (inter alia) undermine his claim. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“https://t.co/Ay1GZ7QBV5 (btw @ErikHovenkamp - see the final footnote: "1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.")”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Tim Kellogg: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: Dario is back with another essay, urging a slowdown he insists AI development would still feel fast, just not recursively self-improving darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
Dustin Moskovitz: knight ajeya you cowards
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Established Agents & robotics Development 7d ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · LiveOverflow
“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel Doll +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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10 experts · 16 posts · 13d ago
Ryan Moulton Grace Dustin Moskovitz SE Gyges Marco Z austin Andrea Lathrop Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“OpenAI steals back the Mandate of Heaven!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Grace: 👀
futur.blue: I think it's extremely unlikely buckmaster's chat logs would've made it into training data such that a model could make use of that knowledge in a matter of days, but it's interesting that oai refu…
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6 experts · 16 posts · 9d ago
Chris Paxton SE Gyges jake Marco Z austin coty.bsky.social
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“ai is good. ai companies are bad. i would rather they do more research. even their catastrophic fuckups are yielding a lot of important information” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
SE Gyges: it's a cold day in hell, i agree with David Sacks
SE Gyges: it would be great if they all instituted actual, reasonable audits by actually neutral parties. i don't care if they slow down, and probably prefer they don't. i don't actually believe either thing…
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4 experts · 25 posts · 3d ago
Ryan Moulton SE Gyges Colin Andy Masley
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“> and when he asked about they said share credit and threatened him I agree with you that this was shady ass weirdo behavior and I do not think OpenAI are very well behaved” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Context & explanation · 1
Ryan Moulton: The majority of the training compute for frontier models is reportedly now reinforcement learning rather than pre training.
Colin: mathematicians are pretty much in unanimous agreement that OpenAI solved N-S. And while I agree that many people had not previously heard of it, it is a very very famous math problem as far as famo…
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5 experts · 17 posts · 13d ago
Eli Sennesh Grace SE Gyges rev. howard arson tweety fish
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“I think the background assumptions are: - AI is going to be powerful and potentially dangerous - someone is going to build it no matter what Then the decision to try and build it “the safe way” fol…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is absolutely, legitimately a good-faith belief on almost everyone's part. it's why Amodei quit OpenAI!
Grace: I think the background assumptions are: - AI is going to be powerful and potentially dangerous - someone is going to build it no matter what Then the decision to try and build it “the safe way” fol…
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5 experts · 17 posts · 14d ago
SE Gyges Andy Masley Mary Branscombe Doll Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“A swarm of parrots attacking me would be so scary :(” evidence ↗
Andy Masley: Sorry what specifically is the new stochastic parrots discourse? Missed something
SE Gyges: parrots gang got into a fight with @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social, who pointed out that the parrot thing is either so weak it's empirically useless or just wrong in response to their normal self promotion
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4 experts · 23 posts · 8d ago
SE Gyges David Marx tachikoma coty.bsky.social
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“who is directing these open model to take down water plants, and why is the effort not spent on stopping them? there are plenty of technologies that can be used to cause harm, in almost no cases is…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1
tachikoma: who is directing these open model to take down water plants, and why is the effort not spent on stopping them? there are plenty of technologies that can be used to cause harm, in almost no cases is…
David Marx: what's this about attacks on water infra?
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4 experts · 15 posts · 8d ago
SE Gyges John David Pressman Phillip Carter Isaiah Bishop
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“Look I'm not defending the project, I'm not even defending their donations to the project, I am saying "if you hate this thing it seems really vulnerable to competition." bsky.app/profile/tilm...” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Markets & investment · 2
John David Pressman: FWIW the reason Omarchy is getting so much support is that it's legibly taking on the project of agent-maxxing to unfuck Linux, if you wanted to starve it of resources your best bet is probably to …
John David Pressman: If you look at the website their pitch is basically "Linux distro that will take radical action to fix the ecosystem using AI agents". Someone else who is less uh "everything should look like a 90'…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 5d ago
SE Gyges Mary Branscombe mackuba.eu
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“i would feel rude if i did not batsignal @theophite.bsky.social to draw his attention to this delightful lore concerning the area in which he was raised” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: Like ten to twenty well-meaning but oblivious people have said variants of "you are being mean and kink shaming" so I am going to have to write a thread about rationalists raping people, a real thi…
SE Gyges: also my notifications are completely fucked and if you said anything to me in the last day and i haven't answered you it's probably gone forever, sorry
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2 experts · 28 posts · 3d ago
SE Gyges Doll
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“A false representation. An unlawful employment decision. Negligent deployment in a safety-critical system. Unauthorized access or data disclosure.” evidence ↗
Doll: A false representation. An unlawful employment decision. Negligent deployment in a safety-critical system. Unauthorized access or data disclosure.
Doll: A materially deceptive synthetic impersonation. Failure to report a serious breach. Violation of a sector-specific duty. Misrepresentation of testing, capabilities or safeguards.
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4 experts · 13 posts · 17d ago
Eli Sennesh SE Gyges Andy Masley ae
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“If I avoid the word "alignment" and just ask "If we keep scaling AI models up, will we reliably avoid situations where they do something catastrophic pursuing a normal goal?" the answer seems like …” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Andy Masley: If I avoid the word "alignment" and just ask "If we keep scaling AI models up, will we reliably avoid situations where they do something catastrophic pursuing a normal goal?" the answer seems like …
Andy Masley: , and I'm worried a lot of people really over-update on what we know about the safe behavior of current models or assume future models won't have a lot of the general "thinking" abilities normal hu…
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4 experts · 10 posts · 14d ago
James MacGlashan SE Gyges critical slop studies futur.blue
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“she's right about that one, and also about various bias reinforcement, and also that technology frequently empowers some of the worst people on earth because that's who already has power” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: "Why would you ruin your career?" is such an insulting and sinister thing to say, he's non-specifically acting like he wants to deny it rn but I think we can call that someone got entirely too high…
SE Gyges: oh shit the marching orders went out on slack
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