@spaniel_bashir

alignment pretraining @openai / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal https://xitter.cf/t.co/e2f47gNzz1 / led @gradientpub

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined July 2021
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Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerOct 15
Some wonderful discussion of my After Orthogonality in this
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@asteriskmgznOct 15
Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life. First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science. asteriskmag.com/issues/16/th…
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I’m in @asteriskmgzn this week, on virtue ethics and alignment, and what it would mean to make an AI model virtuous
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@asteriskmgznOct 15
Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life. First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science. asteriskmag.com/issues/16/th…
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ty to @peligrietzer @joelbot3000 @deontologistics @edelwax @IasonGabriel among others who I have talked to or have otherwise provided inspiration for this!
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@asteriskmgznOct 15
Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life. First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science. asteriskmag.com/issues/16/th…
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Okay, so the day I finally crack 10K followers seems like the best time to announce this, following in the steps of @peligrietzer, I have just put up a Manifund pitch for a project I am running on the concept of self and the way implicit assumptions about it cloud AI discourse.
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daniel bashir retweeted
Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerJul 15
There is literally no clearer case of 'good at writing prose in English' than Virginia Woolf
New Pop Lit@NewPopLitJul 15
Virginia Woolf is in fact a terrible writer but few people dare admit it.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, c. 1936
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I interviewed the inimitable @tsmullaney about his new book How We Disappear, and how his decades of work on the history of Chinese computing led to this beautiful, unsparingly personal reflection on family, decay, and studying history.
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thejester dot substack dot com slash p slash mullaney-how-we-disappear
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We're looking for more detailed coverage for diffuse ai like @SeanLovesBooks brilliant piece on why AI hasn't transformed law — pitch us!
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@BenSchifmanMay 24
Little known fact: Only three companies have a comprehensive collection of US court cases, statutes and regulations. And they charge accordingly! Seems like something that should be available for free as a public good.
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more of this coming from diffuse ai! watch this space, etc
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartMay 23
Extremely thorough and clear piece about AI adoption in the legal industry, and what the actual barriers and challenges are. Way more writing about AI should be exactly like this.
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rest of the lineup: xitter.cf/charlesxjyang/status/2…
Charles Yang
@charlesxjyangApr 9
Diffuse AI Issue 1 is officially here! We're excited to have the following contributors covering everything from LLMs for material science to AI-generated chinese microdramas. Pieces come out every other week + a monthly round-ups of blogs, pieces, and tweets on AI diffusion. Send us your best takes! @BenBlaiszik @Gracemzshao @PoeticJusticeHA @SeanLovesBooks @deanwball @nrmarda
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Our latest Diffuse AI piece (ft. @charlesxjyang @clarabcollier) from Sean Harrington @SeanLovesBooks asks: why hasn't AI transformed the legal profession yet? Sean covers: - The data moat of legal databases - Organizational barriers in law firms - The billable hour and how lawyers think about efficiency - Open questions for the next phase of AI in law
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link! diffuseai.pub/p/the-structur…

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

Why AI Hasn’t Transformed Law (Yet)

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Surveys claim up to 79% of attorneys use AI at their firms. That number measures exposure, not integration. My piece in the inaugural issue of Diffuse AI explains why the gap is structural and what we can do about it.
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Kyle Chayka@chaykakApr 13
the technology VCs should be investing in is the novel
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daniel bashir retweeted
Charles Yang
@charlesxjyangApr 9
Diffuse AI Issue 1 is officially here! We're excited to have the following contributors covering everything from LLMs for material science to AI-generated chinese microdramas. Pieces come out every other week + a monthly round-ups of blogs, pieces, and tweets on AI diffusion. Send us your best takes! @BenBlaiszik @Gracemzshao @PoeticJusticeHA @SeanLovesBooks @deanwball @nrmarda
Charles Yang
@charlesxjyang9 Dec 2025
Excited to launch Diffuse AI with @clarabcollier and @spaniel_bashir — a new publication collecting stories on how AI is actually diffusing into society today. Our initial slate of pieces includes: > an AI & manufacturing case study > Bipartisan interview with fmr White House AI policymakers > Reporting on LLM hackathons for chemists Call for contributors open until Jan 10, pieces are compensated. diffuseai.pub/p/announcing-d…

Announcing Diffuse AI

And a Call for Contributors

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john@johnsemley3000Apr 8
if my feed is any indication, Dalkey Archives is the most profitable business in the history of human civilization.
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Here's the long awaited essay on AI and the associated culture war that I've been promising for over a year. The argument is quite condensed, and could be elaborated in any number of ways, but I hope people will find it interesting.
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