@ledflyd

Biosecurity & AI @PerimeterBio. Following rationalists, biotech entrepreneurs, scientists & designers

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Joined January 2009
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Great energy tonight! Got to talk about lab automation, recent advances in bio foundation models and parenting in with some new and familiar faces. Biotech and AI is alive and well in NYC. Hope to make this a recurring meetup at @fractaltechnyc
owl
@owl_postingJan 30
biotech-ml meetup on feb 11th in williamsburg!!! come!!! only a few spots left!!! quickly!!!!
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Why do science book publishers do this?
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Biosecurity global infra.
Reflection
@reflection_aiOct 16
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners. We're releasing: - Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation - BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter - The open source harness we built and trained Beam on: Mirror CLI Weights and model card on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/reflection
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Great list of names to be on💪
Perimeter
@PerimeterBioOct 16
Very happy to be here! 🚀
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Finding a community (or a few of them) is existential at this point
Derek Thompson
@DKThompSep 29
I think we have a problem
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My kid is learning how to reward hack at school - and missed the larger lesson. Alignment is hard!
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precision 1.0, recall 0.17
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Lots of interest in biothreat radar lately, I wonder why
Perimeter
@PerimeterBioSep 24
Great panel yesterday at FP's Health Forum with Bob Kristovich (DTRA) and Jane Halton (CEPI), moderated by @NPRKelly. We need for biosecurity what every other domain of defense already has: persistent, proactive technical monitoring, deployed everywhere. That's Biothreat Radar.
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Real biosecurity is terraforming Mars
Erika Alden DeBenedictis
@erika_alden_dSep 22
Replying to @erika_alden_d
The first microbe for Mars is a safe, useful first step toward terraforming. Read the announcement from @Pioneer__Labs, including links to three new papers: blog.pioneer-labs.org/p/anno…

Announcing the First Microbe for Mars

A useful, safe, first step toward terraforming

blog.pioneer-labs.org
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Zachary Kurtz retweeted
Zachary Kurtz
@ledflydSep 19
Replying to @StevenRianto @AndrewCurran_
If AIs figure out how to wirehead than humanity might survive this
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Go @RoryKirchner !!
Ginkgo Bioworks
@GinkgoSep 18
Ginkgo Computational Biologist @RoryKirchner noticed that the broker schedule for our autonomous lab, Nebula, looked like music production software. So naturally he turned all of the lab instruments into MIDI instruments. The result is the first ever musical track made by an autonomous lab. Introducing… DJ Nebula.
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It’s clear to me now that the Knicks winning a title finally broke the simulation
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Zachary Kurtz retweeted
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@ledflydSep 15
Replying to @DeryaTR_
I get and agree with the argument at AI will lift prevention and cures as well as threats, but covid showed us already that - even with warp speed development- this is not symmetric and it lands in favor of threats
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Correct take- most predictions will be wrong, but what matters is how exponential growth amplifies tail risk. We need harm reduction on every available axis.
Matthew F. McKnight
@matt_f_mcknightSep 14
(1/2) re: experts disagreeing about Anthropic report... Of course they do... We are on an exponential curve of technical change in both bioengineering and AI - accurate predictions of what will be done are impossible Please just read @waitbutwhy from 2015 science.org/content/article/…
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Zachary Kurtz retweeted
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@ledflydSep 4
Replying to @Aizkmusic
People are now submitting artisanal, entirely human-driven proofs to arxiv and passing it off as an LLM
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This is evergreen to say but the reddit vegans are not okay
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It’s over
Exec Sum
@exec_sumSep 3
NEWS: Popular NYC taco chain Los Tacos No. 1 secured a private equity investment from TSG Consumer
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Zachary Kurtz retweeted
Dan Wetzel
@DanWetzelSep 2
All in all -- to acquire and later via NBA sanctions -- Kawhi Leonard cost the Clippers: 2021 first round pick 2022 first round pick 2023 first round pick 2023 first round pick swap 2024 first round pick 2025 first round pick swap 2026 first round pick 2029 first round pick 2030 first round pick 2031 first round pick 2032 first round pick 2033 first round pick Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, two time reigning NBA MVP Danilo Gallinari $30 million fine Steve Ballmer suspended for one year Lawrence Frank suspended six months Gillian Zucker suspended one year Leonard averaged 47 games in his seven seasons with the club.
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Imagine a future with no trucks and no stuff
DREAM for NYC
@dreamfornycAug 25
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