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My latest blog post is about a class of deadlocks that comes up in async Rust: jacko.io/snooze.html
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CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
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My favorite XKCD 690 compromise theory is that some but not all of the moon landings were fake.
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OpenAI fired me last week, along with two of my safety colleagues. I was given one reason: that I accessed an executive's email. I want to say this plainly, because too many of OpenAI’s history is smoke and mirrors when people disappear:
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What do you think?
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Jack O'Connor retweeted
Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment.
This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI. xitter.cf/demishassabis/status/2…
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Jack O'Connor retweeted
Dario is right
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Jack O'Connor retweeted
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Jack O'Connor retweeted
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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This week on Construction Physics: how the strategic petroleum reserve works.
construction-physics.com/p/h…
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Yesterday, my OpenAI collaborator and I gave a detailed talk on the Huggingface incident, our models creating "the message board", model misalignment, and more.
youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0…
I hope it can answer a lot of the questions folks have, and we will release a full detailed postmortem at a later time!
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At the core of our mission is working through how to ensure increasingly powerful AI benefits everyone.
We believe that, at some point in the future, AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement.
We hope to contribute to work led by the U.S. government, alongside other labs and the open-source community, to develop the tools and mechanisms that could make that possible.
pacingthefrontier.com
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Actually, things were at their best during the last year of my life when I had no responsibilities.
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ALT 5-panel SMBC comic update. A man is stating intensely "things are bad. Probably there was some time when they were good. Yesss, yesssss, the past was so much better because—" A little green haired fairy poofs into existence next to him, and says she is the history fairy. She happily says "I’m here to tell you the past was EVEN WORSE!" The man disagrees, explaining "but work was better and people had freedom and–" The fairy hugs his face, shushing him "shh. Shh honey. Things were never good."
Jack O'Connor retweeted
updated Too Much Crypto ia.cr/2019/1492
the new conclusion says what changed since 2019 wrt AES BLAKE2 ChaCha SHA3; also updated the QC part
spoiler: the core claims still hold, and BLAKE3 proves it
thks @zooko
