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AI risk reducer, alignment-accelerationist working to create a future where humanity can flourish even more. 🇨🇦

London, UK

https://t.co/R1zytlv9Oa

Joined May 2008

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5 months

From a Paul Christiano talk. Assume we're in a world where AI systems are broadly deployed and the world has become increasingly complex, where humans know less and less how things work. A viable strategy for AI takeover is to wait until there is certainty of success. If a 'bad

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Jacques

10 months

"OpenAI employees: did you sign the petition out of fear?"

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2 years

Wow, holy shit this is far away from anything else I’ve seen. Insane. Google basically solved AI music:

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9 months

@ichthys30 Infinite free engagement in calling attractive women mid it seems

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@tyler02020202 Turns out this was always an envy response:

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@coldhealing The word CEO has been brutalized

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5 months

@nfr_podcast 6:16 is Father's day, damn

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10 months

lmao "We achieved significantly better results on the same evaluation by adding the sentence “Here is the most relevant sentence in the context:” to the start of Claude’s response. This was enough to raise Claude 2.1’s score from 27% to 98% on the original evaluation." The fix:

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Claude 2.1’s 200K token context window is powerful, but requires careful prompting to use effectively. Learn how to get Claude to recall an individual sentence across long documents with high fidelity:

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7 months

@mahaaaay This is totally his strategy and has used it on hundreds of girls lmao

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3 months

i’m on a date and she says “the world is better off without humans”, i am hit with a deep sadness

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1 year

@MarkovMagnifico He did it 10 times in a row and then eventually realized he couldn’t stop otherwise his wife would think he doesn’t love her anymore

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1 year

This was the first date in a while where I was actually nervous 😂

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1 year

@Geo_AW So this is why we actually got Usopp x Kaya

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7 months

still can’t believe @sama praised himself like this

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1 year

@GiggukAZ The fact that they cover the Arlong arc makes me pretty excited about the pacing. Seems like they will tighten up the pacing enough to make it a better introduction to people who are new to One Piece!

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10 months

“Altman began approaching other board members, individually, about replacing her. When these members compared notes about the conversations, some felt that Altman had misrepresented them as supporting Toner's removal.” "Things like that had been happening for years."

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Probably not worth the drama but still, this isn't a great look

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1 year

@animetv_jp I really like her, I hope she becomes a regular on the show

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4 months

Wow. This is an impressive amount of character from a former OpenAI employee who recently left the company “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI.” He gave up a lot of money to retain his ability to criticize the company in the future.

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10 months

Multiple comments by the same person in that thread; here are a few more:

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@JoestarJokic The crazy thing about this is that Oda literally invented all the supernovas the week before they were introduced into the story:

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3 years

@sinecuris why are they using violet evergarden to promote the marines?

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21 days

@ChibiReviews Clannad after story

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22 days

Maybe not well-known but: Dario Amodei does have a PhD in (Bio)physics at Princeton, with a focus on electrophysiology of neural circuits. And post-doc at Stanford School of Medicine, where he did more biophysics (while contributing to open source proteomics software).

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Martin Shkreli

22 days

Guy who has never done biology

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1 year

She’s objectively correct, but I do find the psychology of people being pissed off by this kind of interesting. The empty space must be filled! I have to move forward to feel like the line is making progress!

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10 months

From a ByteDance guy btw

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1 year

@TheOmniLiberal We tried to tell you it was a girl’s name

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10 months

Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been

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9 months

@andletmejustsay “i mean, i wouldn’t because i don’t seem him like that…but he could definitely date any other woman if he wanted”

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3 months

@DynamoSuperX Love that Kimiko was showing him books to communicate because he dropped her phone while sneaking in

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8 months

Tremendous amount of alpha in looking into the recent papers and background of new OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind employees before they got hired.

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6 months

If AI accelerationists fail to address the loss of jobs from AI, they may feel the wrath of the masses in a way they fail to comprehend as techno-optimists. The acceleration and lack of care for job loss may ironically backfire into becoming the most extreme deceleration.

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3 months

thinking about this tweet again

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10 months

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4 months

Not a productive comment (0), yet everyone agrees (57)

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3 months

@meltborne I just want Firecracker to unlock her actual explosive power by the end of the season, which forces Annie to get her shit together so we can get a full supe fight between these two

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Jacques

9 months

I’ve heard the same (~“most papers are bad; very behind actual SOTA”) from someone at a top lab @dwarkesh_sp @tszzl has said similar things. GPT-4 finished training *1.5 years ago*. What do we expect world-class researchers at OAI have done since then, twiddled their thumbs?

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6 months

@mijuohdele Definition of “everyone thinks they are the good guy, no matter how objectively bad they are.”

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3 years

An alarm clock, but instead of a ring sound to wake you up, it’s @robertwiblin saying, “what are you working on at the moment, and why do you think it’s important?”

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2 months

I wonder what will be the reaction from the mathematics community once AI solves the Riemann hypothesis

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8 months

@growing_daniel pov: i'm in a coffeeshop and i hear her talk like this to her friend

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6 months

@ItalianLichKing Her gut knew it was coming

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4 months

Karpathy finished building “JARVIS” at OpenAI and that’s what we’re getting tomorrow. His work was done and he left.

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2 years

Oh lord

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Jacques

10 months

Here's an accompanying poll, but take it with a grain of salt (or less), given that anyone can click whichever option:

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2 years

btw, I'm +50% sure that human-level text-to-speech is coming within the next year or two

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7 days

@mckaywrigley I sent this to someone, and she said, "I used to think this would be impressive, but now that I'm in a PhD with other PhD students, I'm not so impressed by this benchmark." lol

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Jacques

3 years

When the Effective Altruism community has conversations about the best time to donate their money:

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no context the good place

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6 months

We knew this was bound to happen

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6 months

This is some of the darkest predictions of AI in warfare, coming true in 2024.

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10 months

A different OpenAI responds on Blind:

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Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc

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Let me just put this back up again.. @sama let’s get back to work ;)

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9 months

Really interesting to hear Sam's behaviour described as paper cuts in another setting (his previous company, Loopt). Does it sound strangely similar to "not being consistently candid"?

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@EpistemicHope Immigration?

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2 months

Paul Christiano:

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9 months

China told its companies, “solve alignment or we shut you down” and now we’re getting a bunch of ‘aligning language models’ papers from Chinese companies 😂

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Reasons to Reject? Aligning Language Models with Judgments paper page: As humans, we consistently engage in interactions with our peers and receive feedback in the form of natural language. This language feedback allows us to reflect on our actions,

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10 months

@benlandautaylor I mean, they all have the potential of losing millions in stocks so the incentives are overwhelmingly in favour of signing in that respect

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9 months

One step closer to grey goo “the researchers specifically call out the fact that these machines can ‘self-replicate its entire 3D structure and functions.’”

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2 years

@growing_daniel i don’t blame her, i too had this experience once

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10 months

People don’t even know what actually happened at OpenAI yet are attacking Toner and discrediting how smart, principled and experienced she is. Truly embarrassing behaviour.

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10 months

Worth noting that:

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10 months

@JacquesThibs There's no way to confirm if this is a current employee or previous disgruntled employee. Blind doesn't force reconfirm emails.

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10 months

In my opinion: As soon as EAs started mentioning that we might be in a dangerous time due to nuclear war, biorisks, and AI risks, Pinker did a 180 on EA because, to him, it disagreed with the thesis of his book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined".

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Steven Pinker

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I was a fan of Effective Altruism (almost taught a course on it at Harvard) together w other rational efforts (evidence-based medicine, data-driven policing, randomista econ). But it became cultish. Happy to donate to save the most lives in Africa, but not to pay techies to fret

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@vampy_gyaru @netflix Alabasta is also heavily influenced by India, not just the middle east...

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10 days

@gurgavin In basketball we have a saying, “if you don’t want to get called on fouls, stop fouling!” All Trump needs to do is not lie and babble about things that can be fact-checked.

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11 months

@yashkaf I might not propose, but goddamn it I’d feel butterflies

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10 months

This thread might convey an opinion I don't have; let me clarify: I feel horrible for OpenAI employees. You don't deserve this. I believe that most of you care deeply about the company and its mission. And I also don't blame people if they are *also* upset for financial reasons.

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6 months

@KaiyoBreeze They want him to have 5 CTs, a matured domain expansion and god-tier RCT at least 100 chapters ago

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2 years

That new Eliezer podcast was pretty heartbreaking in some parts, not gonna lie. When he said, “I did all my crying late at night in 2015”, I was like damn…

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2 years

@DistractedAnna I’m enjoying this a bit too much

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This is exciting! From the author of, "Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible":

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2 years

@gbrl_dick instead read twitter engagement bait takes by tech nerds with cartoon profile pics who have not touched grass once in the last 3 years

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2 years

EA donations to global poverty/health over time (through givewell):

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8 months

@yacineMTB Rookie mistake, it’s actually 1 billion dollars because you could use that money to invest in yourself and sell your company for a billion

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2 years

Some engineering, UX, and some improvements to the model and it will basically become integral to how people produce music imo.

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1 month

lol

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Garrison Lovely

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There are basically no arguments in this statement against SB 1047 from Pelosi, just appeals to authority, who themselves have been parroting industry talking points and disinformation, which I and others have extensively documented...

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11 months

@SchrodingrsBrat Agreed. You can usually tell on the first dates yet people want to avoid difficult conversations. By doing so, you drag on an incompatible relationship to the point of feeling love, and then it becomes difficult to break up even though you know you are incompatible.

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4 months

@paulg Hey Paul, thanks for the clarification! I have a further question: why was there a YC blog post claiming that Sam would transition into a chairman role and then quickly got scrubbed within a day or two?

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2 years

@sgodofsk Ok, but the actual bad example is when people kept receiving baby products after a miscarriage and couldn’t do anything about it.

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10 months

I still remember the days when being an AGI skeptic was when you either thought it would never happen or, if it did, it would be past 2100

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Gary Marcus

10 months

Count me as one of the skeptics! No AGI by end of 2026, mark my words. But I otherwise think @elonmusk ’s comments @nytimes on AI safety and AI regulation have been measured and on target.

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Eliezer, once again, asking LeCun for his plan for aligning superintelligence: “Do you have a plan?” LeCun: “I have concepts of a plan”

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1 year

I feel like I don’t fully understand the full argument, but xAI’s “making the superintelligence pursue curiosity because a world with humans in it is more interesting” is not an argument I buy

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10 months

@scottastevenson @adamdangelo I just don't understand how Ilya and others would take the nuclear option for such a thing, even if Adam was some cartoonish villain (which I still can't imagine he'd be)

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11 months

@ChibiReviews Was always good, people just want AoT to be something it’s not. The series has depth yet people fell in love with the action so can’t cope with the series not having a typical shonen ending. Worth a watch:

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10 months

I've read Helen Toner's AI reports since 2018 (one being: "The Malicious Use of AI: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation") and watching her talks. I felt grateful to learn from her talk on sustainable motivation. She's consistently been one of my heroes in AI.

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11 months

@spectatorindex Heartbreaking. The cycle of violence continues and envelops new people.

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1 year

*watches oppenheimer once*

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OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down by @ingridlunden

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@Aella_Girl Less war and less sexism seems good to me

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@ellegist kelce is gonna get constantly roasted every time he plays gta with the boys

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10 months

A new employee shares their experience (thank you!):

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@apples_jimmy

Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc

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“ Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. “

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Slightly worrying that the top 7 companies of the S&P 500 account for 33.75% of the index fund. Makes it seem like the point of the S&P 500 (diversification) is somewhat disappearing. Top 5 companies had an earnings growth (Y/Y) of +64.3% while the other 495 companies had -6%.

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@OpenAI Bruh, double mine, I was waiting until I had interesting prompts 😅

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@nfr_podcast Also, 6:16 in Euphoria is when Kendrick is telling Drake not to say a certain word anymore

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1 year

@LegoRacers2 C’est true

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6 months

Will your timelines shrink once OpenAI drops their next thing or have you already updated?

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10 months

Evidence about being called/pinged in the middle of the night (as stated in the first tweet):

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7 months

@vocalcry Dating in SF for women: “the odds are good, but the goods are odd”

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6 months

In case this isn't clear, Devin (the AI software engineer) is using Steve Hao's account in this exchange. It's trying to get information via chat to solve an issue. And yeah, we will be straight up giving admin access to these models. lol

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Raunak Chowdhuri

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🤯 crazy exchange on @modal_labs slack between @cognition_labs 's Devin & modal's support team

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