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Fighting the fundamental need to start SF debate club
🚀 Rocket
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🚀 Rocket
@rocketalignment
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2024
- Things are getting weird
AI Agenda: Will Reasoning Models Think Clearly for Much Longer? 'Chains of thought,' a sneak peek into the minds of AI models, are slowly becoming gibberish. Read more from @rocketalignment 👇 theinformation.com/articles/will-… - Replying to @justjoshinyou13Ok you know what’s crazy, I went back to the problem and the answer involved a larger and a smaller carbon ring. And Frederick is apparently in the outer ring of DC suburbs
- ok which one of you zoomers has been hanging out with Yoshua Bengio
- No officer u don’t understand this is my experimental glockGoogle's reason for not releasing a system card for Gemini 2.5 is...the word "experimental" in the name of the model.
- Coup my board once, shame on you. Coup my—you can't get couped again
Thinking Machines Lab's round is unusual in both its size—$2B @ $10B price led by a16z—and its voting rights: - Mira Murati's vote = # of other board directors + 1, giving her a majority - Founding shareholders votes have 100x the weight w/ @nmasc_: theinformation.com/articles/think… - It's only AI control if it's from the Redwood region of the Bay. Otherwise it's just sparkling monitoring
- First Gary Marcus column I've truly disliked [Things companies say] and [things that are true] are obviously correlated, but even on models where they're not, the hype objection is such a red herring And it's poor form to not even read the article you're critiquing
- This is a sign of 1. Maturation for AI: growth has slowed enough and managers have enough experience to start building out a normal internship program 2. Derisking the talent pipeline from dependence on MATSWe’re starting a Fellows program to help engineers and researchers transition into doing frontier AI safety research full-time. Beginning in March 2025, we'll provide funding, compute, and research mentorship to 10–15 Fellows with strong coding and technical backgrounds.
- Also featuring a classic tale of velvet handcuffs Three ex-OpenAI employees say they were interested in joining US AISI but couldn't because of their OAI equity. Two of them ended up at Anthropic instead. The equity issue was counterfactual for one of themAI Agenda: DeepSeek’s Chatbot Outpaces Google, But Google Closes the AI Efficiency Gap Google is closing in on DeepSeek when it comes to balancing quality and price, while DeepSeek’s chatbot has leapfrogged Google’s Gemini. Read more from @amir and @rocketalignment 👇
- Not the quadratic formula 😭
00:00 - I saw the brightest minds of my generation work on evals :/
- I won’t fall for sycophancy 😤 the model said I’m too smart for that
