Enrico Bottazzi

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

Effective egoism

Fuck Nuance kieranhealy.org/files/papers…

Brandolini law

As always, an ironic turn of events. The tech guy who likes things that fit neatly into binary classifiers is now being automated by the same technology that they contributed to building, while the girl into open-ended disciplines such as medievalism is left untouched.

Here are interactions with Emma-6, the "Italian" LLM, that make me think there might be a market for dumb LLMs

Robo-Schadenfreude: pleasure at watching a robot fail.

The affordances of model steering via Mech Interpretability techniques

Here's my take on AI safety. In short, forget about anthropomorphizing the models and training them to be moral agents. Just train them to do exactly what their operator asks. It will make our lives easier.