Josh Herritz

Obsolete Data Wrangler | AI, data, startups, code, economic development, YIMBY, urbanism, current events and running

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

People on the fringe left insisting on pursuing an alliance with MTG, meanwhile MTG is busy pursuing an alliance with the Russian Federation.

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

It's weird that both OpenAI and Anthropic are now insisting that they try hard not to displace jobs when that's obviously false, and also is not something that is normally expected of companies ethically speaking.

You can warn people, shape policy etc. without overclaiming...

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

Interestingly, OpenAI’s recent statements on politics and policy appear to be driven by employee unrest.

In recent weeks, OpenAI employees have raised concerns to the company’s global affairs team about OpenAI’s links to LTF, as well as some of OpenAI’s own policy actions, one employee told Transformer.

At a tense meeting in May with global affairs chief Chris Lehane, they pressed OpenAI to clarify its relationship with the super PAC.

[David Shor @davidshor]

The biggest political mistake the AI industry could make is assuming public trust can be bought.

Appreciate @johnofa using Blue Rose Research's recent AI polling and the Center for Shared AI Prosperity's work here.

https://t.co/6nJTUbre7W

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

The fundamental paradox with AI safety: intelligent *humans* with tools made the nuclear bomb, and the cure for polio, and the mindless YouTube videos. We have not solved the *human* alignment problem. (But we are still better off on net with this bundle, to be clear!) 1/2

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I applaud Piketty et al for embracing artificial intelligence.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Edward Snowden has officially started producing propaganda for the Kremlin.

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

Something I'd like to see more commentary on, re: Obernolte-Trahan, is CAISI Director independence.

They have many key roles here.

What can be done to limit politicization of that role, and if the answer is not much (that will pass in this Congress), what other solutions exist?

[Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel_271828]

You love to see it!

[Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh]

Good for John O'Farrell @johnofa . Great column.

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

What @JonSteinsson says. I'd add that it is totally possible to be deeply concerned about the injustice and inequality today and not twist the facts to make them fit your narrative.

[David Roche @MountainRoche]

I strongly agree with Coach Steve. The impact of bicarb is way stronger than most people who aren't involved in the top end of the sport realize. From 400/800 to the marathon and ultras. (at the Olympic Trials, I even saw 100m athletes taking bicarb for better recovery)

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

Great point. And of course answer is "the improvement in capabilities being right on or above a crazy exponential trend line people drew six years ago, which has some pretty wild upside + safety worries in the next year or two if it continues." Incredible care here is warranted!

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

A way to see the amazing history of economic growth and declining poverty over the last two centuries.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice

And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense

Such a tiresome waste of time

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

In 2028, China & US will not *allow* frontier open source models, will not allow free export of frontier closed models for natl security reasons, distilling to catch up will be impossible, and the capabilities of these models will be astounding. Run through the implications! 4/4

[Matt Beane @mattbeane]

Whoa. Hadn't considered this possibility, and instantly it seems quite likely.

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

Over the past few months I've been working on a very exciting project: a new $10m fund for research on multi-agent multi-principal AGI safety! Instead of focusing on single agent alignment and centralized control, we're looking to support research focusing on multi-agent settings, mechanism design, cooperative AI, and coordination problems.

This is a joint initiative between @GoogleDeepMind, @Googleorg, @schmidtsciences, @coop_ai, and @ARIA_research. Huge thanks to @James_D_Fox, @weballergy, @FranklinMatija, @lrhammond, and @ObadiaAlex for their invaluable work!

See: https://t.co/L5351OpPqH

Apply: https://t.co/a1uJLJnfYw

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Almost all of trackflation is caused by:
1. Shoes
2. Bicarb

Why? We see improvements from sprints to distance. And at every level from youth to HS to college to pro.

For training, it’s improved. The average coach is better. But it’s not the main thing.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Two things are true:
(1) Anthropic (or parts of it) are absolutely and sincerely worried about the misuse of Mythos-class models & have put in excessive safeguards until they are confident it will not be misused
(2) They have not succeeded in explaining/convincing people of this