model providers should just remove the free tier and web frontend entirely. if you're too mongoloidically retarded to install codex or claude code you shouldn't be using any of this. go get your cake recipes via google the old fashioned way.
why are we doing this when there's almost two billion africans?
this whole story sounds made up lol
i just learned that AI is creating a lab monkey crisis.
in 2019, a lab monkey cost $3,000. now they're $20,000+ each, and it’s about to get way worse.
that's because AI can now design endless new drugs to cure diseases in humans.
but a lot of these new drugs need to be tested on monkeys first before they can go into a human, because they're one of our closest living relatives.
so the more drugs AI designs, the more monkeys we need to test them.
but we were *already* running out of monkeys before AI showed up.
it started in 2020 when China (who supplied 60% of America's lab monkeys) banned exports.
so labs switched to Cambodia, until the US found out in 2022 that monkeys there were illegally being caught in the wild and sold as farm-raised
so American labs stopped buying
the obvious fix would be to just breed more monkeys
but a female monkey only starts having babies around age 4, and after that she only has one baby a year.
so supply simply can’t keep up.
even China, which kept all its monkeys for itself, is now sold out at about $26,000 a monkey (roughly 12x the 2019 price)
this is why this startup (Safer Human Medicine) wants to build a 30,000-monkey farm in the US
the plan is to start with 500-1,000 macaques (the main monkey used in drug testing) from farms in Asia, then breed them up to 30,000 over about 20 years.
so eventually, American labs can finally stop relying on the (increasingly expensive!) 20,000 monkeys imported every year.
igelblork retweeted
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
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igelblork retweeted
I will not “lock in”. I will not “looksmaxx”. I will not “ascend”. I will not “cold approach”. I will wait for a woman to initiate something. And if that doesn't happen? I kill myself.
haven't seen @avgvstvsczr around.........
Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru bbc.in/4yLh3Ko
igelblork retweeted
David Sacks compares banning AI to the Chinese emperor who banned shipbuilding
“If you go back to the medieval time period, Chinese civilization was much more advanced than European civilization. And somewhere along the line, it basically switched and the West basically took the lead. And some historians have pinpointed this to the decision of a single Chinese emperor to ban shipbuilding."
“What that allowed is the Europeans then basically colonized the whole world and all the riches that flowed from that flowed back to Europe. And that's how Europe took the lead. And I think that if we were to do the Bernie Sanders thing, which is basically ban AI, it's like banning shipbuilding."
“Chinese civilization will rocket past us, they will be the ones that make all the discoveries and discover this new world and accrue all the wealth. But that's what we're talking about doing. I mean, crazy things like this have happened in history, where you'll engage in self sabotage."
igelblork retweeted
You probably know nothing about AI development. That's okay. You can discern everything you need to know by AI's enemies: Bernie Sanders, Epstein's best friend (Bill Gates), and the man who bankrupted California.
20 irrelevant countries with no tech industry (among them mine). i wonder if the leadership in these countries have any level of regret for the self-sabotage that led to this moment.
