Project Hail Mary was a great movie but the most dramatic moment in the book didn't translate well to the adaptation, maybe due to the constraints of the medium.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

I've decided to commit to memory the square roots of the human population of the United States (~18,000) and of the world (~90,000). This will come in handy.... I think

I am, for instance, unsure how our strategic counter-parties react to a reality where - at any time, even in the middle of negotiations - the United States might suddenly decide to blow up your cabinet or abduct your prime minister, with relatively little warning.

To be clear, if Hegseth's order, "effective immediately", has gone into effect already the way he describes, Claude would already be shut down. (It is not shut down)

Pete's going to fold

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

welp, METR's saturated

Liberation Day!

“The Food and Drug Administration reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine… The FDA will now review the product in adults 50 to 64 through a regular pathway, and adults over 65 via accelerated approval with a requirement to run a post-marketing study.”

i am linking this to the next person who tells me that llms do not make money remotely comparable to their investment. anthropic's annual revenue is 1/2 the size of their funding round also lol a billion dollars of that is claude code subs they've sold in the last month

Did he just shout out every American country

Claude ad

It's giving Windows XP

Projected capex over the next 12 months: $MSFT $115 billion $GOOGL $180 billion $META $123 billion $AMZN $148 billion plus however much they increase it tomorrow (obviously they're not all AI)

SpaceXXaiX, the everything app

Emily in Paris including "American" in its tour of crude national stereotypes is a nice touch

(extraordinarily laudatory)

Broke: marching in the frozen streets to protest ICE Woke: marching in the frozen streets to demand Will Stancil's reinstatement as ICE observer

Interesting set of quotes. The AI industry is full of avowdedly safety-conscious researchers who are also excited about AI progress, especially their own company's. So it's hard to tell whether they'd want an AI slowdown or pause ignoring political constraints. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Arcee trained a model on 2048 B300 GPUs, the first publicly confirmed B300 training run. www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity...

Gemini personalization is a bit overdone

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

used to live three blocks away from here

TACO

Lot of people still living in 2023.

how tf does Claude know how tall I am

I follow. You flee. Remind me who the criminals are again. What is it you can’t do when we’re watching, Stephen?

The difference here is between someone with operational control exceeding their legal authority, and someone with no legal *or* operational authority giving out "orders".

set aside whether it is legal or not. what do you think an executive order is, and what do you think the relationship of the president is to a governor or state secretary of state is? do you think the president is their boss?

Last night I dreamt that Anthropic declared they had achieved AGI with Claude 5 and in recognition of this achievement renamed their model versions from Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku to another set of names. I wish I remembered them but they were really dumb.

JPOW literally said

I binge-watched the first three Twilight movies and they weren't good

omg she said the title of the show

this is just insane. I don’t have any other words for it

"while giving the company’s top-performing sauces and spreads more room to run" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

Big drop in Trump’s net approval on Silver Bulletin to -9.1% today, and I don’t think it includes ABC/WaPo or NBC News polls:

Burba

Swiss Medical G R O U P

We've just launched our AI Benchmarking Hub! This is a new platform for rigorous, independent evaluations of AI model capabilities, featuring interactive visualizations and in-depth analysis. (1/8) epoch.ai/blog/introdu...

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Average lesswronger's apartment in winter

Met some cats in the New York City of Turkey