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Joined February 2021
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30 Jun 2021
💡IDEA: a site like wikipedia - info on many subjects and created/edited by volunteers
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..BUT it uses the ACH framework for controversial topics - encouraging viewpoints to collaboratively collect and document evidence inside the ACH
In theory it could be fairer & less biased
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16 Sep 2025
Unofficial fan art I designed in tribute to "IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES" - published today! Currently reading the book and enjoying it.
(Not affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored.)
#FanArt
ALT FAN ART. UNOFFICIAL. QR CODE https://ifanyonebuildsit.com
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14 May 2025
Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025.
You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!
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1 Nov 2024
Last day to submit questions to this crowdsourced benchmark.
agi.safe.ai/
16 Sep 2024
Have a question that is challenging for humans and AI?
We (@cais @scale_AI) are launching Humanity's Last Exam, a massive collaboration to create the world's toughest AI benchmark.
Submit a hard question and become a co-author.
Best questions get part of $500,000 in prizes!
Deadline: Nov 1, 2024
Details: safe.ai/blog/humanitys-last-…
Submit here: agi.safe.ai/submit
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8 Sep 2024
Three models remain unbroken in the Gray Swan jailbreaking competition (~500 registrants), which is still ongoing.
These models are based on Circuit Breakers other RepE techniques (arxiv.org/abs/2406.04313, ai-transparency.org).
app.grayswan.ai/arena/leader…
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7 Sep 2024
A recent publication introduces the RAMBO air-gap bypass technique, which leverages electromagnetic emissions from RAM to transmit signals covertly across an air gap.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
ALT Screenshot of Cyberjutsu book, page 81 and page 82
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6 Sep 2024
Presumably the real purpose of this company is to refute people who said "We'll just walk over to the superintelligence and pull the plug out", without MIRI needing to argue with them
3 Sep 2024
🚀@LumenOrbit (YC S24) is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity.
Congrats on the launch, @johnstonphil, @ezrafeilden, and @adioltean!
ycombinator.com/launches/LmD… x.com/ycombinator/status/183…
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7 May 2023
Script kiddies have compromised countless orgs despite being "naïve hackers".
Credentialed security experts have repeatedly proven that they can't always stop these "naïve hackers".
“One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.” -- Wernher von Braun
6 May 2023
Remember when naïve hackers were called script kiddies?
What would be the equivalent designation for folks who think they are AI experts after a couple hours of LLM prompt engineering?
Prompt kiddies?
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3 Apr 2023
So, vulnerable prototyping with no duty to security until incidents happen, which you will then iteratively patch in 'fixes' as an afterthought while increasing its risk until a government regulation steps in?
Black Swan events are not a "myth".
AI tech has new risks to manage.
2 Apr 2023
Every new technology is developed and deployed the same way:
You make a prototype, try it at a small scale, make limited deployment, fix the problems, make it safer, and then deploy it more widely.
At that point, governments regulate it and establish safety standards.
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22 Oct 2022
Remembering the time I was responding to "URGENT!" internal IR threat intel requests nearly every Friday night & Saturday for over a year - until the IR team eventually admitted the incidents had already been handled, weren't urgent & they were only testing how good our intel was
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The IR MD had a feud with the Threat Intelligence MD - so I became some pawn in their proxy war between each other
Being a sacrificial pawn for office politics & reaping no benefits after never quitting or failing sure is something
Wish I knew what the lesson of this story is...
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22 Oct 2022
During the middle of this feud, the IR MD hung this up directly in front of my workstation in our office
9 Oct 2022
i wonder if the teams working to build quantum computers with majorana topological qubits ever had this feeling
5 Oct 2020
You: Something's wrong the link doesn't turn purple when I click it
Me, understanding the 16 layers of abstraction and trillions of dollars it takes to make a dot on a screen:
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4 Oct 2022
Want to understand why the physics Nobel awarded today is such a big deal?
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel prize today for groundbreaking work in quantum technologies (1/?)
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28 Sep 2022
Alan Kay: worrydream.com/2017-12-30-al…
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3 Sep 2017
Rick as a pickled gherkin epitomises the human condition. With only his mind, and minimal access to the world, he subdues it. #RickAndMorty
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NRL Announces the Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium (DC-QNet) dvidshub.net/news/423832/nrl…
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22 Jun 2022
Introducing the #AWS Center for Quantum Networking, our new home for #quantum networking R&D. We're on a mission to build the underlying technologies that will enable the distribution of quantum information anywhere on Earth. aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum…
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24 Mar 2022
The U.S. released a new strategy document on "Bringing Quantum Sensors to Fruition." quantum.gov/wp-content/uploa…
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