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3 experts · 12 posts · 7h ago
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“Agree here. I’m optimistic that the US can be a good actor; I hate this regime like poison but am not anti-US. But a desperate gambit to corner the market on AI a) is not going to work and b) will …” 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 · 12 posts · 12h ago
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“this turned out to be useful and this fact infuriates me” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: this turned out to be useful and this fact infuriates me
SE Gyges: that's what i thought! this sounded like having a minor mental breakdown while looking at the math to me. and then i'm trying to figure out why something is happening and i'm like "oh yes, the theo…
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2 experts · 17 posts · 3h ago
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“I think there is a bizarre atmosphere at the labs where there is genuine concern that the field is simultaneously under urgent pressure to go faster, and a visceral sense that it is going too fast.…” 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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3 experts · 4 posts · 13h ago
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“Post coding agents, it's amazing to realize how "I need to do this myself because I know what I want" meant exactly the opposite. You did not know what you wanted, that's why you can't verbalize it…” evidence ↗
Ramon Astudillo: Post coding agents, it's amazing to realize how "I need to do this myself because I know what I want" meant exactly the opposite. You did not know what you wanted, that's why you can't verbalize it…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: One of the astounding thing we're learning in the age of AI is how much the human brain deludes itself with self-gratifying illusions
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3 experts · 3 posts · 19h ago
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“Throwaway thought, but it’s wildly unhelpful to use AI as a catch all for everything from transformer-based sequence models to agentic coding assistants to LLM generated docs. I suspect sentiment v…” evidence ↗
Emily Riederer: Throwaway thought, but it’s wildly unhelpful to use AI as a catch all for everything from transformer-based sequence models to agentic coding assistants to LLM generated docs. I suspect sentiment v…
emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social: also adding in image generation here!
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2 experts · 6 posts · 14h ago
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“Thnx. Musk is famous for promising things that never materialize. I see, however, no future for grok as a closed source (paid) model. I believe customers are willing to pay only if it’s a top 3 mod…” evidence ↗
Michiel Bontenbal: From a letter to an alliance. "That is the mission of the Open Secure AI Alliance: to ensure defenders everywhere have open, frontier tools they can trust and control."
Michiel Bontenbal: Interesting stuff that Grok models will be open weights.
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2 experts · 2 posts · 12h ago
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“Actually, I see where they're coming from. Recent events have convinced me there is a real risk that AI will advance faster than human beings in the Bay Area can control.” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: Actually, I see where they're coming from. Recent events have convinced me there is a real risk that AI will advance faster than human beings in the Bay Area can control.
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: "will"
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