Every year, friends beg me at the last minute to get them in to Vision Weekend at a discount. I can’t do it. JUST GET YOUR TIX NOW, PEOPLE! I BEG YOU. Now through end of June.

Only a few 100s of people are working on aging - we need an Apollo scale effort

If you just give us a few percent more of your money, we could finally fix the worsening education, homelessness and crime caused by our own terrible policies… Please bro… just a few percent more. One last tax. I swear bro. Then I’m done.

Yeah well she might prefer it that way

It really is. Fight aging!

1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government 2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere 3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in 4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties 5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control

I prefer mineral sunscreens

Unprecedented. @BrianRoemmele warned everyone for the past two years that the government would take away our AI. That day just arrived. Was talking with an entrepreneur in San Francisco who was running Fable to build software and just turned it off while it was building. Tomorrow night Anthropic is throwing a Fable builders event in San Francisco. I wonder if that event is still going to happen? This hurts American national security. I know of several companies that were using Mythos to close all of their security holes because it is so powerful at finding weaknesses in software. That effort has not been completed, so there are many companies with many holes still open now. This throws that effort into question. It also means that China is emboldened because, you know, can you trust an American company to keep their systems up and running if the government is willing to shut them down so abruptly and with no warning? It also means that open source and running models on your own computers is now very attractive (if it wasn't already). Expect Apple Mac Studio sales to go up.

Disturbing if true

Looks like good reading for my train ride tomorrow.

Berkeley math professor: “Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.” Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.” It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”

The government isn't meant to search your things without a warrant. So they buy your data instead, and pretend that searching their own databases doesn't count. The 3rd-Party Doctrine needs to end. surveillanceaccountability.c…

Books I regularly recommend to parents: 📕Absorbent Mind (Montessori) - she has the deepest reverse for the human condition focused on children. 📗 Positive Discipline series - great for instilling emotional intelligence and agency in young children. 📘 How to Talk so Children Listen and Listen so Children Talk (Faber) - fabulous practical communication tips. 📙 How Children Learn (Holt) - love his observations about helping young children to teach themselves. 📚 Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Engelmann) - the bible of teaching reading. 📖 Magical Child (Pearce) - raising genius kids through play. He gets woo-woo at the end (but given that people love the telepathy tapes, maybe he's onto something).

Kinda crazy that there's one place that does the best jailbreaks of AI models and that place is the UK government 🇬🇧

happens to the best of us

Speaking as someone on Social Security: I agree, this should be fixed

Looking forward to joining the @SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge as judge and exploring the many new ideas and applications for improving today's AI and compute frontier.

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