I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
we will never ever have another sajal ali in this entire region she’s one of one, the one and only phenomenal actress. nobody does it like her and nobody ever will. the way she carried tonight’s episode of zanjeerain on her back sajal aly you are something else. 👸🏼
The Pakistan Academy of Letters with Yasmeen Hamid, poet and inaugural director of the Gurmani Center at LUMS, has put together a 500+ page anthology of Pak literature in English. It deserves your attention if you teach global or South Asian literature anywhere in the world.
so dystopian how we come on here and tweet like the world isn’t actively falling apart, talking about anything else seems meaningless and yet talking about the catastrophes feels reductive, redundant and ultimately also meaningless