daniel bashir

alignment pretraining @openai / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal / led @gradientpub

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

also contains fun vocab such as “obnubilating”

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

highly recommend Perry Anderson’s excellent comparative essay on Powell v Proust in @LRB, presented through the Trojan horse of a review of Hilary Spirling’s Powell biography, which controversially argues for the superiority of Powell’s “A Dance to the Music of Time” over Proust

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@realchillben huge

[Max Lawton @maxdaniellawton]

Gaddis is easy! Nothing is hard! You’re all cowards! You don’t have to understand everything to read a book! Just read it!

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer @joelbot3000 @deontologistics @edelwax @IasonGabriel also to @Tudor_GT 🙏

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

I’m in @asteriskmgzn this week, on virtue ethics and alignment, and what it would mean to make an AI model virtuous

[Asterisk @asteriskmgzn]

Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life.

First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science.

https://t.co/KkG0mOIV8S

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

ty to @peligrietzer @joelbot3000 @deontologistics @edelwax @IasonGabriel among others who I have talked to or have otherwise provided inspiration for this!

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@brunellaism @asteriskmgzn they call me Alasdair in the streets

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer 🫡

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer extremely high praise!! ty

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

Some wonderful discussion of my After Orthogonality in this

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer @joelbot3000 @deontologistics @edelwax @IasonGabriel 🙏

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer 🫡

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@peligrietzer @joelbot3000 @deontologistics @edelwax @IasonGabriel hope I have done some justice to your work!

[Asterisk @asteriskmgzn]

Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life.

First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science.

https://t.co/KkG0mOIV8S

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@sethlazar @dhadfieldmenell @resolution_org @bebacibralic Congrats!!!

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@dkaushik96 @OpenAI Woah congrats welcome!!

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@realchillben bill we've gone over this

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

Okay, so the day I finally crack 10K followers seems like the best time to announce this, following in the steps of @peligrietzer, I have just put up a Manifund pitch for a project I am running on the concept of self and the way implicit assumptions about it cloud AI discourse.

[daniel bashir @spaniel_bashir]

@niloofar_mire @Dr_Atoosa @nhaghtal صد اموجی