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“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...”
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“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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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
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“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…
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AGMAI September 29 general content
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“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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“New @spectrum.ieee.org piece on AI model “welfare”. Well-written, thoughtful article (as always) from @newsbeagle.bsky.social. Super important topic in AI zeitgeist, with input from me, @anilseth.bsky.social and Cameron Berg. Kicker is me talking about bugs…”
Bengio AI agents deception essay
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“To read my blog post on the subject: yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...”
“A little bit of sanity from Yoshua Benjio on recent AI agent behaviors. yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...”
ChatGPT users detect AI text paper
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“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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“"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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“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! arxiv.org/pdf/1006.3868”
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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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consciousness introspection philosophy essay
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“I have a new newsletter today, about LLMs and interoception and introspection and narrative and definitely NOT consciousness why do you think it's about consciousness I would never write about consciousness buttondown.com/apperceptive...”
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Together AI cloud platform
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“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.”
“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…”
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“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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“mmmmaybe although one of my favorite papers ever is Olshausen & Field 1996 where they showed that learning the optimal sparse code for natural image statistics ended up looking pretty much like V1 receptive fields www.cmor-faculty.rice.edu/~caam415/Ma_...”
