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[benedict @bqbrady]

Introducing Philosophy Bench, my favorite new project I've worked on this year, with help from my friend @matthewjmandel

We put frontier language models in 100 ethically complex situations and require them to act, grading them on adherence to consequentialism vs. deontology, tendency to follow user requests, corrigibility, and more

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[Oliver @oqbrady]

Idk who this guy is but this article is cool

[benedict @bqbrady]

Closing the Software Loop

I've become convinced that it is possible to build a system that improves our core product with a shockingly high level of automation

Wrote down some thoughts on how I expect this to work and the implications

https://t.co/gRNhesLqnW

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Where is the rubric for three beers at house of shields. Personality hire erasure in this eval

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@BrendanFoody Apex team dialed🚀

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Underrated how much complete mode collapse of the X algo on a given day (post Elon) affects vibes and markets. I’m going to dream of opus 4.5 tonight

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Gave the semi analysis writeup a few minute skim — time to throw the rent money on Korean fried chicken reversion lagging the google tpu hype pop

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Mom it’s a real job I swear

[Oliver @oqbrady]

why do the tsa pre dudes hate to give you the little bowl

[Peter Fenton @peterfenton]

The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the go-to provider for top AI companies, delivering unmatched speed and quality

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@platonmazarakis @PrismCoder Prism codes

[Oliver @oqbrady]

👀

[Platon Mazarakis @platonmazarakis]

Launching background agents and a mobile app for Claude code. Code from anywhere! 
@PrismCoder
Go to https://t.co/P9hdY8xHFD to join! To get instant access, like and reply “Prism codes”

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Watching memento on repeat all weekend to get a better intuition for building agentic workflows

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Data 🐐 @AndrewHojel

[Essential AI @essential_ai]

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🚀 Meet Essential-Web v1.0, a 24-trillion-token pre-training dataset with rich metadata built to effortlessly curate high-performing datasets across domains and use cases!

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@emkara Congrats!

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@mercor_ai 📈

[Oliver @oqbrady]

Unreal team with a fascinating and valuable problem to tackle — couldn’t be more excited to be at Mercor

[Mercor @mercor_ai]

Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy.

The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism.

We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at a $2B valuation from @felicis, @generalcatalyst, @benchmark, DST and @MenloVentures.

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@BrendanFoody @mercor_ai @victoralazarte @bgurley @benchmark @peterthiel @jack @adamdangelo @LHSummers Wow

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability.

@mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.

[Oliver @oqbrady]

@drvox @threadreaderapp unroll