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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Erin Kissane
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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frontier labs rogue ideology essay

Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…” evidence ↗
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Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Hey look at this * PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations archive.is/zDBfX#select... * Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices buttondown.com/apperceptiv…”

“I think we’re finally getting somewhere on Explaining “AI Safety“ to regular people buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
tweety fish: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
e.w. niedermeyer: new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining t…
tweety fish: FINE
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Ai just found bug that puts up to of the worlds websites at risk fd0902ea

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Social Media Lab
“"AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk." www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
tweety fish Social Media Lab

“"AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk." www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...”

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Established Compute & infrastructure Resource 15d ago
Together AI cloud platform

Together AI | The AI Native Cloud

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · tweety fish
“the geopolitical concerns are maybe kinda overstated, and as noted somewhere like together.ai hosts glm-5.3 in the US; you do still have to be ok running something in a datacenter. my personal calculus is that giving money to openai/anthropic/grok is the bi…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
jake tweety fish

“the geopolitical concerns are maybe kinda overstated, and as noted somewhere like together.ai hosts glm-5.3 in the US; you do still have to be ok running something in a datacenter. my personal calculus is that giving money to openai/anthropic/grok is the bi…”

“you're hallucinating that, sorry. you can get access to models 95% as good as Anthropic / OpenAI who serve *open-weight* models basically at cost (look on Fireworks.ai, Together.ai, etc) and it's even cheaper than the top labs.”

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10 experts · 32 posts · 12d ago
Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield SE Gyges David Marx jake John David Pressman tweety fish Mary Branscombe
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“and like insofar as that's a worry the solutions offered (a human understands the mechanism) are not solutions that are available for existing drugs, so the takeaway I think is that clinical trials…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: i hate this
SE Gyges: it tells me that that fucking guy who stood up and said this shit at Neurips managed to set this as an acceptable, within-overton-window way of being pissed off about ai it isn't and anyone who say…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“this seemed crazy to me but then I thought a bit more and realized — I, too, am Claude” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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8 experts · 20 posts · 8d ago
Grace Colin Dan Hon tweety fish René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“I think it ultimately comes down to semantics, but I'm not a fan of the fictional character comparison because it seems misleading. Aside from the discrepancies you mentioned, people also often use…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Grace: So either we have fictional characters that are integrated into our world in this way, or these characters have ceased to be fully fictional in some way.
Grace: Beyond this, LLM personas also close the loop of output and input- they can take actions in the world, see the results of those actions, and react to them. So they become causally integrated into o…
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7 experts · 29 posts · 15d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Maxim Raginsky Clément Canonne Eli Sennesh critical slop studies tweety fish Al Merose
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“The future is highly uncertain. There has never been a time where knowing a lot of things has been harmful and if they get the AI future they’re prognosticating things are so weird it doesn’t matte…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Eugene Vinitsky: Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when …
Eugene Vinitsky: This is not a call to be dishonest! But you don’t have to say anything if you don’t have anything useful to say
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