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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 Reaction converging Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amodei pace AI frontier essay

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

15 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Ethan Mollick Justin Hendrix Tim Kellogg Kate Klonick Chrissy Farr rat king 🐀 👑 Kevin A. Bryan +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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Primary source darioamodei.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 6d ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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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Established AI research Research 4d ago
⚡ 2690 h early
high dimension learning always extrapolation paper

Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton SE Gyges tweety fish
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“This paper addresses the claim in the ML sense, that interpolation in high dimensions is more or less vacuous, but the sense people mean for LLMs is different, and I'm not sure whether we are using the right words. arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485”

5 experts discussed this · 24 posts
rev. howard arson: covering my head in aluminum foil so claude cannot read my thoughts
SE Gyges: did they not notice the "can we train on your data" opt-out. it's very simple. that is the vector by which the company might get your data
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): also I don't think laypeople understand the sheer length of time between something happening and it potentially being amalgamated into weights
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Primary source arxiv.org ↗
Established Safety & security Development 4d ago
AI safety advocate tabloid personal expose

AI doomsayer's wild life with OnlyFans star includes birthday sex parties, extreme kinks and 'Slutcon'

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Renee DiResta SE Gyges VE, cybersocial occult investigator Doll

“NY Post comes for Aella because *some VCs* are mad that the vibes shifted away from them on AI safety last week. Badge of honor, really. They're grasping and chose the oldest smear strategy in the book. "You're either with us or with the sluts and wokes!" n…”

“The New York Post beat me to Nate Soares. nypost.com/2026/09/16/b...”

3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Renee DiResta: NY Post comes for Aella because *some VCs* are mad that the vibes shifted away from them on AI safety last week. Badge of honor, really. They're grasping and chose the oldest smear strategy in the …
Renee DiResta: Ooh my first Adult Content label.
Luis Villa: The Sankey diagram party here yesterday was started by a very-not-a-VC person. There’s lots of people who would like the national media to understand the various overlapping cults and pathologies o…
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Primary source nypost.com ↗
Developing Culture, work & education Signal 2d ago
⚡ 47 h early

Further Notes on Rape Culture in AI Social Circles

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll

“two: theasterisk.substack.com/p/further-no...”

“also theasterisk.substack.com/p/further-no... and theasterisk.substack.com/p/reflecting...”

Primary source theasterisk.substack.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
⚡ 37 h early

EA Safety

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
SE Gyges Doll

“if you want a more philosophical treatment of rationalism/effective altruism's ai movement this is good i believe recent events have caused many of the people we normally call "rationalist adjacent" that they have to say something contraptions.venkateshrao.…”

Primary source contraptions.venkateshrao.com ↗
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5 experts · 53 posts · 3d ago
Tim Kellogg SE Gyges tachikoma Doll david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: i cannot explain the behavior of the movement's members regarding crucial issues more nicely than that yud convinced them all to be neurotically fearful of the paperclipper, and that only this was …
SE Gyges: I think that the parsimonious explanation for e.g. Anthropic and Dario doing legitimately bizarre shit regarding "safety" which makes little or no sense is best explained by them being utterly Yud-…
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4 experts · 25 posts · 2d ago
Ryan Moulton SE Gyges Colin Andy Masley
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 · 12 posts · 3d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Rachit Dubey SE Gyges rev. howard arson Andrea Lathrop
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Weird request; we've had a fairly big breakthrough that we've been mostly keeping a lid on for the past year. We're looking to talk to some science / AI writers about this and I know a lot of y'all…
Eugene Vinitsky: I hope I've maintained a sufficient rep as anti-hype so that when I occasionally say things like this this folks know I mean what I say
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