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Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Analysis 18h ago
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Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ted Underwood
“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

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“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

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“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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New Models & releases Signal 10h ago

Openai anthropic staff share letter asking us to help pace ai progress

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...” evidence ↗
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Tim Kellogg

“people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tim Kellogg: who are those?
Tim Kellogg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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New AI field signal Signal 16h ago

imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai) on X

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...” evidence ↗
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Tim Kellogg

“some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Tim Kellogg: some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...
tachikoma: the question is why other labs aren't pursuing such research directions - it's not like continual learning hasn't been identified by dozens of names as a promising avenue to human-like learning and…
Tim Kellogg: i unfortunately can’t speak about why they’re not seeing success. all i know is catastrophic forgetting has been a big problem Ilya seems to have gone back to the brain for inspiration, whatever th…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 7h ago
Ted Underwood jake tachikoma
Matches Building & implementation
“we should try to avoid that outcome by building resilience, which i think comes from decentralization, on the web and in the physical world” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tachikoma: this regime ends in 2029, but what comes next? what if it's worse, not just ideologically but in terms of vision and competence?
tachikoma: we should try to avoid that outcome by building resilience, which i think comes from decentralization, on the web and in the physical world
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3 experts · 11 posts · 6h ago
Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib Andy Masley
Matches Building & implementation
“on point 2, something i don't see proponents grapple with is that the current buildout is absolutely not the totality of data centers meant to be built. there will need to be more (and considerably…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Luke Stark: Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
Ali Alkhatib: on point 2, something i don't see proponents grapple with is that the current buildout is absolutely not the totality of data centers meant to be built. there will need to be more (and considerably…
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2 experts · 17 posts · 4h ago
Pwnallthethings SE Gyges
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“sorry, "there is a letter today, of whom by far the most famous person who signed it was dario, that says we should 'pace' as in 'slow down' ai development"” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…
SE Gyges: fundamentally this is an anthropic thing that managed to recruit some people from other companies
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2 experts · 6 posts · 9h ago
angela zhou J. Nathan Matias
Matches Building & implementation
“i feel like prototyping an ai product or workflow to Work Well and Add Value instead of becoming More Workslop is like cooking. you need to be tasting as you go, and even as models are getting bett…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Context & explanation · 1
angela zhou: i feel like prototyping an ai product or workflow to Work Well and Add Value instead of becoming More Workslop is like cooking. you need to be tasting as you go, and even as models are getting bett…
angela zhou: CS culture is exhausting in insisting on an arms-length view of labor and its inputs, rather than drilling in deep to produce something that tastes good for people
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2 experts · 4 posts · 16h ago
Mark Riedl Eytan Adar
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“Before: Claude feeds human ADHD. Now: Claude gets ADHD... "You're right — I got pulled into the distractor-similarity bug report and never actually shipped the color feature, I only did the palette…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eytan Adar: Before: Claude feeds human ADHD. Now: Claude gets ADHD... "You're right — I got pulled into the distractor-similarity bug report and never actually shipped the color feature, I only did the palette…
Mark Riedl: Why not both? AI forgets to finish a thing. Human forgets they asked AI to do a thing.
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