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Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
It’s not a secret. It’s a combination of the HF incident, the capabilities of this new model, the concerning trajectory of monitorability, and the speed of improvement in capabilities.
This model represents a step-function improvement on many benchmarks, and its training is ongoing.
Our internal model group arrived at the Navier–Stokes solution in 88 hours, using around 10,000 coordinating AI agents.
Throughout the effort, we maintained the strict safeguards—including monitoring and isolation—that we apply to all our frontier evaluations.
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
LLMs unleashed a new wave of development, with individuals now able to produce reading environments that reflect the features that they consider important. Take a look at Brandon Lucas' lyceum.quest, e.g., his glossed Homer with code github.com/lyceum-quest
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
People outside of AI don't freak out quite enough in response to new system cards because, even if they do read them, there is a lot of unstated context missing...
For example, here is some context on one paragraph in the executive summary of today's Fable/Mythos card.
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
Let's talk about web-based PDF viewers. This one by PBSwiss tools has no download button, but allows you to print one page out of it. It has an agonizing 2 sec page turn animation.
A plain PDF link is all you need. Are you trying to stop people from archiving your catalogs?
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
We gave an AI a 3-year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit.
The AI interviewed and hired full-time employees, applied for credit, and stocked the store with the books Superintelligence and Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Visit Andon Market at 2102 Union St now.
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
most people don’t know they’re building one of these in brownsville texas
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
hey I made a tool if you're considering moving: Closeness To Things
input the potential home, input all the places you might go to, see where you'll want to walk and bike, see what that'll feel like and your average time traveling
(green: walk, blue: bike)
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.
It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
anthropic.com/glasswing
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
finally the web has become interesting again
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
Each frontier AI model seems to use a little under a year's worth of a square mile of farmland's water to train. I think about this as the country having 4 square miles of farmland sectioned off to grow some of the most popular consumer products in history.
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
via @kelmgren's piece on language diversity: asteriskmag.com/issues/13/la…
Nova DasSarma (p̄/deacc) retweeted
Discord is now cracking down on tools such as DiscordChatExporter that can be used to export your Discord chats.
Some users are reporting getting logged out with a community guidelines violation as soon as they run an export with their token.
![GitHub issue - Auth token invalid - getting banned for using CLI audinowho - last week (Contributor) +1 to this being a new detection measure. I was doing an archive run with a user token due to the impending new verification policy. No issues for the entire span of Feb 11th to Feb 25th when exporting was run continuously without interruption. I later returned to do an incremental export 12 hours ago using the same token. Export worked for 3 minutes across 14 channels and then all devices were logged out. An abuse notification email and a password reset email was sent to my inbox immediately after. 1Q18LAqakl - last week me too aperson99 - 5 days ago (edited) +1. [screenshot from Discord about breaking community guidelines] I tried to do it again, and immediately the token was invalidated. This is becoming a big issue.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDNAGX1WIAAV2nf.png?name=orig)
ALT GitHub issue - Auth token invalid - getting banned for using CLI audinowho - last week (Contributor) +1 to this being a new detection measure. I was doing an archive run with a user token due to the impending new verification policy. No issues for the entire span of Feb 11th to Feb 25th when exporting was run continuously without interruption. I later returned to do an incremental export 12 hours ago using the same token. Export worked for 3 minutes across 14 channels and then all devices were logged out. An abuse notification email and a password reset email was sent to my inbox immediately after. 1Q18LAqakl - last week me too aperson99 - 5 days ago (edited) +1. [screenshot from Discord about breaking community guidelines] I tried to do it again, and immediately the token was invalidated. This is becoming a big issue.