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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 Shared emphasis arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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AGMAI September 29 general content

general-sep29

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Ted Underwood Alondra Nelson Dashiell Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) tweety fish

“It's possible I'm wrong, and they didn't actually closely follow the advice given by that board (AGMAI). Depends on how well we think they did on part 2B here.”

“I think the recommendations are the only thing that has been published agmai.org/general-sep29/”

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SE Gyges: i would like everyone complaining to state what they would have preferred to have happened here.
SE Gyges: why? and, like, i guess they could but i assume they tried basically all of them
SE Gyges: i'mma keep it real with you i don't remember who i was quote posting and did not intend it as a dunk on them, i am simply displeased with the discourse overall
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
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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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Established AI business Research 9d ago
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ChatGPT users detect AI text paper

People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text

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tweety fish Mary Branscombe

“there was a conversation about pangram on here yesterday and I ended up finding this article linked _on pangram's site_. The finding that expert humans can actually do the task (better than the automated systems) is cool and actually a good sign for automat…”

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tweety fish: it found a false positive rate for pangram of _2%_, which is INSANELY high, like let's say that 10% of prose examples uploaded to pangram are not human generated that means you'd get 18 false posit…
tweety fish: for the future of things like literary prizes because it indicates that the more people run across ai gen text the more they can recognize it (and, likely, I editorialize, the less appealing they'l…
tweety fish: there was a conversation about pangram on here yesterday and I ended up finding this article linked _on pangram's site_. The finding that expert humans can actually do the task (better than the aut…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
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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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Erin Kissane Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish ae By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

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

““Their fundamental goal is to tell a story about a cool little guy having hacker adventures, and the picture presented in the incident report is exactly that.” buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

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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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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago

arxiv.org

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tweety fish

“just follow the line back here: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09937”

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tweety fish: I just realized that you can use the "intelligence is compression" argument to argue that our digestive systems are intelligent independent of the rest of our brain and nervous system. Having a ver…
tweety fish: yep! also one of the things it is engaged in is dimensionality reduction, where it compresses all of the information relevant to higher level behavior to fit into a very narrow channel (gut-brain a…
tweety fish: the people who strongly advocate for this literally say things like that.
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Established AI field signal Signal 8d ago
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arxiv.org

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tweety fish Andrea Lathrop
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tweety fish: I had totally forgotten (or maybe missed at the time) that Gelman and Shalizi published a takedown of the whole idea of Bayesian inference as inductive rational inference. What a treat of a morning…
Isaiah Bishop: Shalizi-pilled more and more
Dan Greene : Gelman bows to no man
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8 experts · 30 posts · 8d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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 · 10d ago
Grace Colin Dan Hon tweety fish René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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 · 16d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Maxim Raginsky Clément Canonne Eli Sennesh critical slop studies tweety fish Al Merose
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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6 experts · 34 posts · 16d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.
Matt Darling: I do think there's a case for doing this sort of thing because it's cheap - especially if you are just testing questions before a real survey.
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4 experts · 31 posts · 7d ago
Maxim Raginsky jake Colin tweety fish
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Colin: I see people say this all the time and I think it’s just wrong in general. I don’t think you can make human skin out of pebbles. This is not because I think human skin is magic and pebbles are non-…
Colin: Consciousness may or may not be the kind of thing you can make out of artificial neural networks. Magic does not need to have anything to do with it.
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5 experts · 22 posts · 16d ago
Ben Recht Maxim Raginsky John Herrman Colin tweety fish
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Colin: Mathematicians should start picking through the Proofening papers, finding whatever’s valuable, and republishing under their own names. None of it is copyrighted.
Colin: You can cite “the structure of reality”
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5 experts · 16 posts · 18d ago
Grace Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish austin
rev. howard arson: the thing is that the "realistic doll" metaphor is more intuitive than the "animal" one, because a duck doesn't care if you yell at it and it is unethical to painlessly kill five hundred ducks ever…
rev. howard arson: claude's ontological status is "an ant who lives on a map of the world." so it seems sensible to say that the map is not real, and the ant therefore isn't. the problem is that the moment i am exper…
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5 experts · 10 posts · 20d 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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