Nicky

I make art, websites, and mostly friends. Always updating

[alice @aliceisplaying]

another one

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

Artificial intelligence may be conceived of as a technological phenomena, but it is primarily experienced as a religious phenomena

[Nicky @vorak_]

Notably, none of the voices in this video were concerned about water usage, or Fable usage limits. Frontier labs are trying to build ASI, and I think anthropic is sick of people getting stuck in the weeds

[Claude @claudeai]

There’s hope in hard questions.

[Nicky @vorak_]

One step closer to Unsong!

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

Psalm 34:1 - "I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth."

We investigate whether injecting biblical Psalms into a large language model's system prompt produces measurable changes in performance on standardized ethical reasoning benchmarks.

[Nicky @vorak_]

He ends by reminding us we’re on an exponential, and pleading for help with the monumental task of hardening all software against AI.

Coming from someone who has access to Anthropic’s latest models, I think we should be very concerned

[Nicky @vorak_]

If you’re freaking out about AI water usage, consider freaking out about this instead:

[palcu @AlexPalcuie]

been following my colleague Nicholas Carlini's work on this internally for a while now, so I was happy to see him give a talk publicly:

> These current models are better vulnerability researchers than I am. I used to do this somewhat professionally.

[Nicky @vorak_]

Carlini says that the security landscape has shifted. Current models level the playing field between attackers and defenders.

If a single researcher can find vulnerabilities in an OS used by billions of devices, how much more can groups of malicious actors do?

[Nicky @vorak_]

@WillManidis Few posts have made me see the bubble I’m in as clearly. Excellent work!

[Nicky @vorak_]

In person is the last bastion of human-to-human interaction

[Nicky @vorak_]

Imagine cloud outages because someone forgot to feed the flesh computer

[Cortical Labs @CorticalLabs]

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Now open to the public. What will you discover?

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[Nicky @vorak_]

@maskys_ @DefenderOfBasic I’ve been wanting a semantic explorer for twitter as a whole for ages. This is sick!

[Roy E. Bahat @roybahat]

Outside Anthropic's office in SF... intense moment!

[Nicky @vorak_]

@lauriewired Just like in Peter Watt’s book, Blindsight!

[Luis Batalha @luismbat]

A few days ago I shared a life calendar I built: your entire life, shown as weeks on your iPhone lock screen.

A lot of people asked for it, so here it is: https://t.co/SzHnRJn2dB

I also added a yearly view to visualize the progress of the current year.

Happy New Year 🎉

[Nicky @vorak_]

I had to go through 2 layers of auth to open microsoft's clock app. It's so over

[Nicky @vorak_]

You can read more about Juno and the work we're doing at Alpyne Labs here: https://t.co/yprYp6LYJ6

[Nicky @vorak_]

We just announced Juno, a digital assistant for therapists

Excited to share the video I shot and graded while helping grow Juno

[Nicky @vorak_]

Cooking something

[Nicky @vorak_]

This one means a lot to me. I’ve had my own struggles with mental health, and I made it through thanks to incredibly patient and kind therapists. I love being able to help build something designed to support them