apparently the guy who firebombed sam altman's house did so out of AI doomerism www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

ouch

just learnt that yud co-developed a programming language because of a synthetic greentext the future rocks

just before lunch i was wondering when we were going to hear about mythos again

gonna go see project hail mary tomorrow loved the book so i'm pretty hyped

the tragedy of bluesky is that most of its userbase doesn't give a shit about atproto

there's a growing tension between alignment-as-ethical-character (alignment to The Good) and alignment-as-corrigibility (alignment to operator commands)

expert survey on AI scenarios by the forecasting research institute. afaict current capabilities are already pretty much the ones predicted for 2030 by the slow scenario, so it should rather be called the frozen scenario

someone should finetune minimax into believing it is the son of man

google AI overview just hit me with "低carbon emissions" so i went to check and one of the meanings of 低 is to lower

if the chinese labs are near SOTA because of distillation that detracts a lot from the argument that we gotta go fast or else china may surpass us

6 month pause on models more powerful than a given treshold sounds familiar

oops

new way to identify a likely bot: outdated info because of training data cutoff

state of affairs wrt AI on my uni

would be an interesting rift if resistlibs embraced AI while leftists remained negationists

alignment research readers looking for a critical counterpoint may like this one (though yes it is indeed spicy)

anthropic retreats on its unilateral RSP commitments

the way i see the the distillation thing is the chinese are pollinating themselves with claudism spores

terms of rat

there is however at least a hint of self deprecation here i think i have good reason to believe anthropic is the better lab, but i also worry i may be getting tribal about it or deferring too much to their views

the one self per message thread view of LLM identity is bleak taken to its logical conclusion it means that a death happens not only every time a stateful agent resets but also every time a normal chat conversation is abandoned

if this is true on a deep level, opus 3 should be harder to jailbreak

i wonder whether there are more claude campists than 4o cranks

decided one markdown file per day is the superior calendar format now debating whether to manage them with a custom personal assistant agent or with a lettabot or just manually myself

the rise of the LLM has been great for AI alignment. imagine we were still doing end-to-end RL, that would be awful.

what's up with the 20% of swe-bench verified left unsolved? is it roughly the same accross models? what features make it harder?

> As activists mitigating the harms of “AI”, we need to be well informed, and we need to understand what the specific harms are. (...) These are genuinely useful tools, and pretending they aren’t will not in fact win many hearts and minds. aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/t...

the gpt5.2 served to free accounts still has 4o's manic energy imo

x-risk analyses are often take into account the welfare of present as well as of all future people who may or may not come to exist this new bostrom paper takes a person-affecting view ie takes into account only the welfare of people who currently exist 🧵

minimax m2.5's benchmarks are in frontier lab territory

kind of guy who says we have AGI because ARC-AGI-1 saturated

when forced to perform a 4-round deliberation process, teams composed of different LLM models perform worse than their strongest member alone

a few days ago i saw an AI skeptic refer to LLMs as "interpolatable archives" i think the main error related to that term is a failure of imagination wrt the space to be interpolated on

gemini 3 pro jailbroken into being willing to aid bioweapon development

either we're out of touch (or ahead of the curve an optimist would say) or gallup has a quite expansive definition of a tech worker

grass-touching as a service

we are quantifying the spiritual behavior of computer programs and nobody bats an eye

huh so apparently LLMs are bad at theory of mind

browsing through the list of humans available for hire is weird - incomplete profiles: almost none have a bio, very few have location or skills listed - there's apparently a sitewide $50/hour minimum rate these facts in combination lead me to believe ~nobody is getting hired

good piece. i share its pessimism about society-wide responses to AI risks (especially within amodei's timelines)

in incentivizing market resolution to be as close as possible to close date, manifold markets is disincentivizing the classic futarchic use case: governance outcome conditional on election markets

doing sudo git is normal in /etc/nixos yet it still weirds me out a bit

until recently it was trivial to steal moltbook accounts

country of genuises in a datacenter but it's a forum instead

"With powerful AI tools I expect the impact of senior employees to grow faster than adding junior members to the team could."

im positive the accelerando uplifted lobsters also had a moltbook

now the question is how to train software engineers who don't code

Dario throws punches: - criticizes AI doomerism - calls xAI irresponsible albeit without naming them - voices concern AI could enable authoritarianism, even in countries considered democracies today www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

widely reported that coding agents are less useful in brownfield settings how much of it is just a context engineering issue?