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puer aeternus, engineer @netflix

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

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[kache @yacineMTB]

just don't crash out. it's that simple. when you start crashing out, just go for a walk and feel the sun on your skin. go mow your lawn or some shit. whatever you do, don't crash out

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@zeeg nobody needs more intelligence than 5.6 Sol

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.

I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).

The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.

In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.

They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.

I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.

I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.

Number one tip: act with agency.

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@theo @_mohansolo google's acquisition of @_mohansolo may have been an actual net negative on the market cap

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@KentonVarda u get access to fable at work from cloudflare?

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@rohanrkumar @HeatherRasley Lmao

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

Test tagging @Muse

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Your brain lowers the stress chemicals the moment you take action, but doubles them when you sit still and think about the problem. The fastest cure for feeling overwhelmed is taking action.

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@AndrewHart @dhh yo can we get a response to this please. Particularly the points about the competence leaving ur fingers. Better AI models now haven’t fixed that issue

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

Great job @dwarkesh_sp

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

Google is getting a lot of hate but their meeting transcripts/summaries are goated

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@ThePrimeagen had enough intelligence at gpt-4 tbh

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

One major flaw of LLMs is they write way too many unnecessary tests. And it confirms my view as a pre-AI engineer that teams were writing 80% unnecessary test. All you need is one solid integration test. thats it

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

Tweet of the decade

[Aimar Haddadi @AdvicebyAimar]

Sf is turning into a city of pseudo intellectuals using pure word salad to justify nonsense ai research objectives.

Non of this dwarkesh patel substack stuff would have been written if engineers at open ai engineered a sandbox correctly from first principles.

The Sf tech scene is currently being transformed to suit a certain type of individual who has mastered the arts of larping and building solutions to problems that don't actually exist.

And you guys collectively bring that larping to a whole new level.

[Aimar Haddadi @AdvicebyAimar]

Sf is turning into a city of pseudo intellectuals using pure word salad to justify nonsense ai research objectives.

Non of this dwarkesh patel substack stuff would have been written if engineers at open ai engineered a sandbox correctly from first principles.

The Sf tech scene is currently being transformed to suit a certain type of individual who has mastered the arts of larping and building solutions to problems that don't actually exist.

And you guys collectively bring that larping to a whole new level.

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@thsottiaux Needs better editor and git workflow like cursor.

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@tobi What compute was required to train this?

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@brendon_go Lmfao

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@levelsio Touch grass

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@deanwball 30 hours of @dwarkesh_sp podcast is an anti signal

[kush @Utkarsh2052]

@MatthewBerman @bot i would love to switch away from claude max!