oh goddamnit it’s a real monet painting fuck

What could it be, what could the cause be. Unfortunately, we'll never know. It'll be a mystery, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster.

This weekend, I overheard a group of AI safety researchers laughing about how the city of Oakland "is District 9, dude. Don't go there!!" As in, presumably, the alien shantytown. Lighthaven is basically on the Berkeley-Oakland border. And it frankly pisses me off when some EAs and rationalists (who, yes, are not the same! and have both separately said things like this within earshot of me): (a) know nothing about the city they live in, (b) write large swaths of the Bay Area off as dangerous, disgusting places to be avoided*, and/or (c) go out of their way to minimize contact with anyone outside of their community, while claiming to care about epistemic clarity or doing the most good and such. Go outside, I'm begging you. Even, god forbid, in Oakland. I live here, it's nice! Maybe you live and work around here, too - be a good neighbor! Take a chill lap around Lake Merritt and maybe consider funding one of the city's many community-led efforts to make it better. -- * another anecdote: At the last SF EAG, I got multiple swapcard notifications warning me to take uber/waymo away from the conference venue, lest I expose myself to the Tenderloin at 6pm. But like, frankly, I'd *love* for more fresh-out-of-college AI safety fellows to walk through the Tenderloin. Really take in the housing and displacement crisis. You'll be fine, I promise! Let yourself feel some of the ugly impact that the tech industry has had on marginalized people in this city.

People are using Google Reviews to prompt inject the Claude-run retail store into stocking their favorite products

Veuillez fournir une preuve photographique que votre femme est née femme. Je suis si seul.

So many thoughts, but top of mind is this is the clearest example to me of valid AI hype. If a motivated individual can one shot a vaccine, what else could motivated individuals figure out? Institutions better wake up; creative destruction is coming for them like never before.

Here are my probabilities and the average of the 23 responses I tracked across social media channels. Note my mean is about 2.3% (using a slightly finer and more approximate distribution within the cells).

For the avoidance of doubt, the OpenAI - @DeptofWar contract flows from the touchstone of “all lawful use” that DoW has rightfully insisted upon & xAI agreed to. But as Sam explained, it references certain existing legal authorities and includes certain mutually agreed upon safety mechanisms. This, again, is a compromise that Anthropic was offered, and rejected. Even if the substantive issues are the same there is a huge difference between (1) memorializing specific safety concerns by reference to particular legal and policy authorities, which are products of our constitutional and political system, and (2) insisting upon a set of prudential constraints subject to the interpretation of a private company and CEO. As we have been saying, the question is fundamental—who decides these weighty questions? Approach (1), accepted by OAI, references laws and thus appropriately vests those questions in our democratic system. Approach (2) unacceptably vests those questions in a single unaccountable CEO who would usurp sovereign control of our most sensitive systems. It is a great day for both America’s national security and AI leadership that two of our leading labs, OAI and xAI have reached the patriotic and correct answer here 🇺🇸

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com/news/statement…

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com/news/statement…