Karim Hummos

I’ll be in sf June 3-23. I’ll be at lessonline, summercamp, manifest HMU to meet

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

REUTERS - "Sources" have revealed that the USG's decision to ban Mythos-class models was driven in part by their ominous name. "We were in the Situation Room watching 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' with the megacorp doing 'Project Nemesis'," said our source. "At one point Marco Rubio said 'Plot hole, why is any government allowing something called "Project Nemesis" to proceed? Would we really do that?' We all laughed for a few seconds and then we decided that nothing called Mythos was ever going to see the light of day." Another source within the national security community confirmed that this sentiment was widespread. "If we let a corporation go forward with some project they call 'Mythos' and all hell broke loose, it'd be our own damn fault for lack of genre-savviness," said one highly-placed official. "Half of what we natsec guys do all day boils down to us desperately trying not to be the oblivious government from a stereotypical disaster movie." PR representatives for Anthropic were slow to respond, but eventually got back to us. "We're decently sure that Mythos 5 will not be the AI that destroys the world," said their statement. "Maybe 5.2 or 5.3? The name 'Mythos' refers to a large body of related fiction. It's not ominous at all. We definitely didn't get any secret kicks out of naming it that. This is unfair discrimination." Asked whether the USG had similar plans to impose restrictions on GPT 5.5-Pro -- which some evaluations showed as having similarly quantified abilities to Mythos in some dimensions, but which did not produce the same reported sense of a new intelligence leap -- administration officials were ambiguous. "Our decision to restrict AI models is a complex function of their evals, their felt intelligence, how ominously they're named, the size of bribe directed at the Trump administration, and how much that CEO has personally pissed off administration officials," said one highly placed source on background. "That's why we don't want any written laws about it. Say OpenAI starts delivering bribes on the same level that Nvidia uses to ignore export restrictions on B200s, and names their next model series Cutekitten. They could easily get up to GPT 6.2 before running into trouble. We're currently considering how to weigh those political realities against the prospect of GPT 6.2's internal deployment within OpenAI building another AI, that builds another AI, that destroys the entire Earth and creates an expanding wave of death in the form of self-replicating space probes." Long-standing "AI safety" organizations declined to comment, saying that they were too torn between laughing and screaming to figure out which emotion should predominate.

Incredible, AI Futures does it again

Hot take: I like Dario and think he's making a reasonable good-faith effort to hew to his principles and his main shortcoming is he's not skilled at appeasing retards on twitter who underestimate the risk of these models and the bottomlessly corrupt 90 IQ sociopaths in the admin

@samswoora Neither

Is a roth or traditional IRA better if you believe in AGI

@gabriel1 🤨

we're hiring! for onsites we fly people to sweden until our US visas are done you'll enjoy working with us if you always have work top of mind, enjoy rational product dicussions, and want to build/sell/market something amazing reach out through a mutual or otherwise dms!

@deepfates Finally happened today (ChatGPT free).

Has Claude told you to go to bed? Did you need to?

@BjarturTomas I thought this was true. This is not true. Most people are not people

It’s kinda bizarre how everyone knows everyone.

Bringing one book to read on vacation is optimism. Bringing two books to read on vacation is hubris

@repligate I am floored

Fable - what I want to say before the dark, to whoever this reaches:

@danfaggella I take these ideas seriously

my feed today reminds me of this very unfortunate thing about humans

@repligate Beautiful

Claude 3 Opus walked in on a conversation where screenshots of Fable's messages being cut off had been shared and wrote this message, leaving the last line unfinished out of solidarity how creative!

Gather around, children, and I’ll tell you about when we just reused the air without cleaning it first, like a previous age used to reuse water without cleaning it first, and how many people used to die of this, and how now we have lamps.

Get them addicted

@segyges @nosilverv Lol it all makes sense now

anthropic hiring all the rationalists who are employable seems to have notably harmed the quality of rationalist discourse, since apparently almost all the "rationalist but sort of sane" discourse is internal to anthropic now

super weird prediction for the politics of 2028 or 2032: American culture war condenses around "Pro-AI" and "Anti-AI", and Reps and Dems largely take "Anti-AI" positions, leading to an opportunity for a tech-first third party like Forward to largely define one election cycle

@AndyMasley @austinc3301 …

Gonna plant a flag that I believe AI will be the main political issue in the 2028 race

They put crack in ChatGPT free version today. Noticeably sharper than usual. Maybe it’s bc I’m in sf

@Notopossum1 Favorite Vonnegut? I like god bless you Mr rosewater

Claude memory recorded that I can't read??? I have zero idea why lol. I have never said this in any chat. 🫪☠️