My fix landed in @t3dotcodes nightly 🎉🎉 "Start from origin" is now "Start from remote" - worktree should behave better with forks!
Max is a entirely different creature
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Opus 5.5 @ Max is still the ramen king, but Argon holds its own on Ramen Bench
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We’re rolling out Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity to paid Google AI Pro subscribers today. Demand has been incredible and we've scaled capacity deliberately to get here. We’ve rolled out a separate weekly-only Argon quota for Pro on top of the existing Gemini bucket for 3.8 Flash so you have the best of Gemini for all your tasks.
Reviewer on a PR: don't you think we could do X?
My PR loop (Sol): yea but let's do it later in another PR
Me: ?
Sol: *sigh* ok i can do it now
Stephen Benjamin retweeted
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
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As someone who's been in clinical trials and had random things injected into me... yes, a drug passing phase 3 trials sounds great 😂 By phase 2 you already have decent safety data.
I don't think we know how nearly any drug actually works. Our theories on SSRI's and GLP1's continue to be proved incomplete. This is entirely a bad thought experiment.
My travel @bot, Wyndle, knew we were flying out of GYE today. As part of its proactive travel day monitoring, it alerted me to the 7.6M Panama earthquake, checked tsunami arrival times against our flight, and set up monitoring every 15 minutes. Neat! (We should be safe)
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The idea that the exponential age will not lead to technology worthy of moral consideration will be one of the dumbest takes of the early 21st century. Y'all need to watch some more Star Trek.
Good opportunity to share Wyndle, my Travel Steward. He will stay on top of everything for you: proactively setting up monitors on travel days, offering suggestions for food, restaurants, airport lounges, etc.
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SpaceXAI has just introduced Grok @Bot Creator Rewards!
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In the last two weeks, I’ve earned $500 in rewards due to people using my Home Robots template 🔥
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Ok I made the thing. Will sign the Mac apps when I get back to US.
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I’m tired of worktrees eating all my disk space.
@t3dotcodes cleans them up for settled threads, but I use a bunch of other tools too. Everything I found was “worktree manager + harness + 900 other features.”
So I built a small worktree manager (with a CLI, too).
Maybe useful? Does anyone know anything in this space? I'd rather use something more mature
I’m tired of worktrees eating all my disk space.
@t3dotcodes cleans them up for settled threads, but I use a bunch of other tools too. Everything I found was “worktree manager + harness + 900 other features.”
So I built a small worktree manager (with a CLI, too).
Maybe useful? Does anyone know anything in this space? I'd rather use something more mature
Look at the size of this huachuma (San Pedro), I think it's about to flower I'll have to come back and see it in the evening
We slaughter ~100B animals a year that clearly have an internal life and feel pain and most of it is unnecessary.
I’m open to extending moral consideration to models someday. But how we treat our fellow earthlings now will shape how we treat them then. And the current state of affairs doesn't bode well for our future when these sapient tools become conscious for some definition of it.
You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on.
I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard.
I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization.
It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours.
As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future.
As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.
