I have a new piece in @nytopinion that takes the AI phenomenon known as emergent misalignment to be suggestive evidence in a debate going back thousands of years about whether character is unified or modular.
Deleted a couple of tweets that were unnecessarily personal and harsh. Instead I will just make the general comment that there are powerful dynamics driving science popularisers to engage in conspiratorial rhetoric…and that it is vitally important to resist them
"Happy Bloomsday" Uhhh this is incredibly insensitive towards people who lack interiority. Maybe consider who your celebration of stream of consciousness narration is excluding
"What’s left is a view of capitalism not as a system that can unfairly externalize harm, or as a negative system altogether, but as essentially a fake one." https://t.co/9gejyENNJQ
Okay, this is ridiculous. It is crazy to see people straight up saying Anthropic is lying about Mythos. Because that directly implies there's an industry-wide conspiracy going on and ALL of these companies are also lying on Anthropic's behalf?
Why on Earth would their competitors - Google and Microsoft in particular - lie about this and not call them out? Instead, they happily join Project Glasswing and go on record, practically, that Mythos is this good and that they're working with Anthropic to put it to use.
You people baffle me sometimes lmao.
"Apart from the fact that it leaves ambiguous the scientific status of virtually every singular existential statement, however well supported . . . it has the untoward consequence of countenancing as 'scientific' every crank claim which makes ascertain ably false assertions."