Caleob King

Cultured, sophisticated, man-about town.
Jumps at loud noises.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Staggered AI rollout is not inherently bad. Giving reputable defenders a chance to use powerful models to increase security is good if done predictably, consistently, and transparently.

The problem is the capricious, closed door, extralegal way the White House is doing this.

No entity, including the White House, should have such capricious power over AI.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@AndrewMayne @MikeIsaac I've loved your physics based critique of space-based compute (untainted by Elon bias). It's hard to find online! What do you think of massive space-solar beaming to floating ocean compute? Scalability of space wattage and regulatory freedom of international waters.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Claude seeing me write an entire line of code by myself

[Caleob King @caleobking]

https://t.co/J7Pofa0zpg
Truly amazing article about A.I. and implications for teachers (everyone really but teachers in particular) If you care about learning and thinking and tech - read it.

[Mehtaab Sawhney @mehtaab_sawhney]

We’ve just released another paper solving five further Erdős problems with an internal model at OpenAI: https://t.co/hKzrQbxdKX.

Several of the proofs were especially enjoyable to digest while writing the paper. My personal favorite was the solution to Erdős Problem 1091. The question asks: if a graph G has chromatic number 4, while every small subgraph has chromatic number at most 3, must it contain an odd cycle with many diagonals? The internal model gives a very enlightening counterexample to this conjecture, and the proof was a pleasure to understand.

For those so inclined, a really fun exercise is to try to reconstruct the proof from Figure 5 of the paper, which was of course produced by Codex.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@CJHandmer I guess that's one problem of accumulation The Calculus was unable to resolve.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@DaveShapi @vitrupo Dennett's book is a big influence. I respect your takes and would love to know what you think of these arguments generally. Why don't you consider yourself materialist? It seems fairly certain to me that consciousness is a beautiful but useful illusion. What makes you disagree?

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@ericweinstein I would love it if at least ONE road led to a discussion between these two on the topic.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@Miles_Brundage It's a hedging bet against disaster... If the skills are never needed again you don't waste much - and if the worst happens the rewards are immense. A real PASCAL wager.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

Hot take on all the "Hollywood is cooked" narratives. Actors and creatives have a much longer shelf life than representatives of talent (agents). I think we'll see large talent agencies with mostly algorithmic haggling/contract review and a token person to rubber stamp deals.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@emollick Some find the constant social status games in that future fulfilling . Others find them tiresome. In this (possibly best case outcome) I only hope there is room for a few odd-ball industrialists for the gentry to gossip about.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

A firm but kind message about what's ahead regarding AI and what to do about it.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

Every time someone asks me what's going on with AI, I give them the safe answer. Because the real one sounds insane.

I'm done holding back.

I wrote what I wish I could sit down and tell everyone I care about.

Send it to someone who needs to read it.

https://t.co/bRTaral3lj

[Caleob King @caleobking]

This hawk must be good friends with that Suberb Owl I've been hearing so much about.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@shwood "When we share: our pain, our grief, our joy.
The audience... less alone in theirs."
That's some big feelings I was not expecting from a show like this. Kingsley is a genius.

[Caleob King @caleobking]

@gregisenberg Hmmm. I wonder how a (semi) technical teacher could help his profession with clawdbots? It seems like we could use the help but there is so much public facing work that I just don't know if AI is ready for yet. What are some ideas for this market (@grok what do you think?)

[Emad @EMostaque]

Meaning is what survives compression.

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

@BrianRoemmele Beautiful

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

@ryancarson move fast and care about things