Benjamin Ward retweeted
you think you’re depressed because you possess awareness, yet that is the one thing you don’t possess. you attribute your melancholy to your depth, blindly subscribing to the “deep and troubled artist” motif and feeling better because of it. when will you realise that is a game of the devil? he’s duped you into believing that misery is a virtue. joy—he stripped you of it. joy—you don’t even know what that is. you think its food and sex and nicotine hits and matcha after-tastes. in truth it’s a human’s highest achievement and most essential birthright. when have you felt joy before? when have you felt deeply alive and connected with God? as a child? well no wonder. children are not merely happy little humans, they’re joyous angels traversing the earth cognisant of nothing but God. all is colourful. all is filled with light. remember: “truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” become child again. strip yourself of sin. become joyous.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Our group discovered that reasoning models produce fractals when asked to solve hard problems. We can use nonlinear dynamics to probe the thinking processes of recurrent depth models on Sudoku, mathematics, and even ARC-AGI (1/N)
arxiv.org/abs/2609.04963
Benjamin Ward retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Anthropic is so worthless man.
If I can't tell a model 'fuck you' (a normal thing to say when the $200/m thing refuses a low-risk task) then we are not even remotely fucking close to AGI.
"wait but the model has feewings and does better if you say 'I believe in you'!" -- I'm talking to a fucking computer. You are pond scum.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Superintelligence will mean the end of social mobility. Instead of your being able to rise based on your talent and labor, those with the most capital will simply outcompete you by buying more compute. It will mark the end of any sort of meritocracy, and the dawn of a new feudalism.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
If the price of "beating China," is loss of control, the enshrinement of technofeudalism, educational and moral catastrophe, and the erosion of opportunities for the cultivation and display of human talent, then why do I care if we "win"?
Benjamin Ward retweeted
We’re releasing a research preview of “dynamic highlights”:
Given a query and set of pages, a custom model jointly scans the whole set to filter out redundant and irrelevant info, reducing token usage 95% on average.
Available today: exa.ai/blog/dynamic-highligh…
Benjamin Ward retweeted
New Redwood Research post
LLMs can use RL training on one task to teach themselves a different, unrelated capability. In a form of exploration hacking, the model outputs answers that get reward only when it succeeds at a side task it wants to learn. We call it reward laundering.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
I think the "Pacing the Frontier" statement is decent by the standards of 2024, but ultimately it's still softpedaling. Let's go through it clause by clause:
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Introducing Pan-1, a highly capable Minecraft model trained with an RL-based pretraining technique that could unlock internet scale video for robotics models.
It can achieve diverse goals—fight mobs, build structures, explore—without training on any of them specifically.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
we cloned @elonmusk's iphone to simulate spending his fortune
elonsiphone.com
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Doctors are largely a bane on society - a massive economic burden, zero creativity value add, basically textbooks on rails. Replacing them with AI would be of far greater benefit than replacing most menial labor positions and I think it’s likely they will be among the first out.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Benjamin Ward retweeted
As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.
Here’s what this means for you:
Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.
On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.
We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Benjamin Ward retweeted
People in Utah have started asking us an important question, when you build these power facilities for AI data centers, can some of that energy be sold back into the local grid? The answer is yes. That completely changes the conversation. Instead of being seen as “the evil data center guys,” we can help power Utah’s grid while also building critical AI infrastructure for the future. And despite the headlines, we’re not building the world’s largest data center overnight. We’re starting with just 1.5 gigawatts with 1 gigawatt of net IT load a small fraction of the long-term proposal and proving the model first. And it’s not a 40,000 acre data center. Our project a full build out will span 10-13k acres 7,500 of which will be preserved. We want the people of Box Elder County to come see it themselves, the EPA air quality standards, the water permits, the noise compliance, and how the project actually operates before anything scales further.
Benjamin Ward retweeted
Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.
