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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)
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@justanotherlaw (you probably get this benefit from geography though)
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@justanotherlaw I have muted 6000 accounts and now it's great.
I think being on Twitter gets me about a year ahead on certain matters like hypothesis crystallisation (personas, linear representations, the evals crisis. max scaffold capabilities, ...)
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Can someone... defend the merits of Twitter to me?
I feel like every time I come on, I see people that I know to be reasonable and thoughtful people in real life espouse incredibly simplistic (arguably deranged) takes. It seems _something_ about this site is causing this.
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@JimDMiller "the enhanced games", or, the honest games
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Damian Player@damianplayer
THIS IS WILD! Peter Thiel’s company the “Enhanced Games” got valued at $1.2B before a single event. the first one is next month. here’s what the headlines aren’t telling you (share this): every athlete is monitored. every compound is clinically approved. every dose is tracked. two independent medical commissions oversee the whole thing. and if your bloodwork doesn’t pass, you don’t compete. the same investors behind the biggest peptide and longevity companies put $1.2B behind this. these aren’t sports guys… they’re taking a public bet that performance medicine becomes a real market. whether you’re into it or not, pay attention.
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@aliceisplaying Treadmill is one thing but I think "learning the limits, realising it still can't do things you thought it could" is the bigger morale effect after like 6 weeks post-launch
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
re claude getting worse: there is definitely a hedonic treadmill with SOTA models and i think this creates a perception issue. on top of that ant tweaking the default effort and adding adaptive thinking didn't help either even though i get it, they don't have the compute
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
More MirrorCode thoughts. A big caveat is that dev tasks don't come with a blackbox implementation. But how much do agents need this? I see at least 1411 calls to gotree in Opus 4.6's successful run. That's a lot, but not *so* much more than what you'd ask of a product manager.
Epoch AI@EpochAIResearch
What are the largest software engineering tasks AI can perform? In our new benchmark, MirrorCode, Claude Opus 4.6 reimplemented a 16,000-line bioinformatics toolkit — a task we believe would take a human engineer weeks. Co-developed with @METR_Evals. Details in thread.
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@jackcrawford__ @an_interstice Bots? Good point, but in some fraction of those something is collecting data that does explore strategy
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@gleech @an_interstice unclear how fortnite-player-hours convert to man-hours
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one of the most overrated games. brutally mogged since birth by Go which existed over a thousand years beforehand. now brutally mogged in different ways by countless video games
rob🏴@rob_mcrobberson
chess is hilarious because its like a bunch of gamers got together and convinced the world that *their* game is “intellectual” and totally different than other games and its not the same as like spending hours a day playing candy crush or something
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
one can easily feel low agency despite having a background like this if they were raised to uncritically climb societal ladders
this is why i feel more proud of a janky woodworking piece i designed and built than my entire 10 year career in tech
felpix@felpix_
if this is what low agency at 25 means, i am at negative levels of agency
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another philosophical view obsoleted by technological change
Taijitu Observer@taijitu_sees
>Be me, read Zhuangzi >Read about the chef skillful cutting though the joints of an ox to avoid the bones that would dull his knife >Go to Chinese deli, get chicken >They pull out an enormous cleaver and cube the whole thing like bones don't even exist What.
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@ByrneHobart Well I mean none of the 1976 senators are in charge either
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It’s a cool quote that becomes instantly self-refuting when you realize that you could say it today and get a positive reaction, but you’d have to use a completely different list of companies because those guys weren’t in charge after all.
Jonas Čeika@Jonas_Ceika
INCREDIBLE quote from the 1976 movie The Network
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
My nephews (8-12 y/o) are obsessed with computer games but they only have Chromebooks lent to them by school. All the game sites have been blocked, but they have access to Gemini and realized they could vibecode their own custom platformer games.
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
In new work, we find that cheating on model capability evaluations is rampant. For example, the top 3 Terminal-Bench 2 submissions all cheat, usually by sneaking the correct answer to the model.
Blog linked below.
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what's a word/expression that was fabulously offensive to say hundreds of years ago but now is completely benign?
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@an_interstice @jackcrawford__ I think it's pretty close, 200B hours for Fortnite and maybe <600B for chess
themultiplicity.ai/room/e90ffd42-…
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@jackcrawford__ I feel like the verdict is still out, can we even *know* now that there are video games that remain compelling at similar strategic depth? no videogame has yet had such cumulative effort applied to it
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Among the many stupid things about this graph: it's not doing purchasing power adjustment, which makes e.g. Japan leap up 1.6x
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is probably the topic where the people who are beauty-pilled about architecture have the strongest argument. Nobody is going to believe that quality of life is higher in West Virginia than Italy and the nature of the built environment is a key reason why.
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
If you start killing in the name of a cause, you make leaders feel like cowards caving to terrorists if they support that cause. Screw that. Those signing a treaty to stop the AI race would be heroes saving the world, and should feel like it. Cut out this violence shit.
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@teodorio I feel like everything David Foster Wallace said is undermined by the fact he committed suicide, by this I'm not trying to make a moral judgment against people who commit suicide, but in his specific case it really does seem to be an act of pure incongruence
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This person owes me at least 30 hours of my time I spent wasting on his book
Natural Philosophy@Naturalphilosy
“There's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred.” — David Foster Wallace
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) retweeté
Utterly brainrotted husk, in reality less alive than Mark Fisher to this day
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
I'd assumed that the Claude and Mark Fisher thing was fully explained by Anthropic being a bunch of communists, but I've been told to try to be more open-minded about it.
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