Colm Casey #️⃣ 🏡⬆️

This. 👇 I will be referring to this a lot over time.

@elonmusk @mattsilx @xai @barisakis Massive issues in safety. Truth seeking is good. CBRN uplift not so much. Smarter it gets the more likely a low guardrails ai will give meaningful help to very bad actors.

@mattsilx @xai @barisakis Sorry, candidates should always be treated with great respect

Many talented people over the past few years were declined an offer or even an interview @xAI. My apologies. @BarisAkis and I are going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates.

@Olliedodd Nice one Ollie! One needed mid way on N17 too (Ballindine? Knock would also be good) OR Charlestown - near IWAK and catch N17 and N5 all together

Paddy’s day next week 🇮🇪 and Tesla charging Ireland have been busy. 4 new sites under construction now - Longford - Dublin - Blanchardstown - Letterkenny - Mallow 1 new site starting next week - Limerick 3 new sites due to start by month end, all being well. - Dublin - Airport - Dublin - Rathfarnham - Sligo 1 awaiting planning - Wicklow 2 awaiting power - Athlone - Killarney We set an objective to provide nationwide coverage (few more to come) and at a minimum, double the network size in 2026. The team have done an incredible job so far (Aiko, Ben, Paul, Dom, Danny, Elane and Declan!) open to all EVs…. enjoy the new network this summer. @teslaownersirl @TeslaOwnersUK

@Kung_Fu_Tommy @Sally_Sharif1 Average overall could have been down but the essay could have been at the same level.

@ColmCasey @Sally_Sharif1 I think the implication here is obviously that the average is lower than previous semesters.

I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric. *** The average was 64/100.*** My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85. Context: • This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material. • Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions. • Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay. • I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester. • We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture. • Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade). • Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz. *** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.*** After the midterm, students reported: • They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper. • They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement. My view: It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material. Moving forward: We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.

@Sally_Sharif1 Did the essay scores come in above the average generally and match previous cohorts who did not have AI tools, or was that down also?? Was that the application of the knowledge in the exam?

Due to popular demand, here are the exam questions: raw.githubusercontent.com/sallysharif/sa…. The course is about militias and paramilitary groups, wartime violence by such actors, and challenges of post-conflict statebuilding.

I walked into a shop today. While waiting my turn, the two lads ahead were finishing up their conversation. They are fully convinced that we "didn't build them. Impossible. You'd have needed to be huge. They hadn't the machines." "The Tartarians built all those." Social media is a bit of a problem.

I think @DarioAmodei is on the money here. Some red lines are ok until the red lines aren't needed. youtu.be/MPTNHrq_4LU?is…

Just want to make a note here for time. Photo of on social media is wrong, regardless of whether some useful idiot is screaming "won't someone please think of the children". We already have some business models which are banned and profiting from them. More business models need to be simply designated as immoral. Maybe use a different word for the 21st century. "Counter to the common good" sounds ok to me.

@Austen Interesting. Will models be used to evaluate their own jailbreaks then? I've seen some grade themselves pretty on the ball in terms of things the other way around, such as an exploit.

You cannot trust an AI model to grade its own work. Ever.

@EdBIre1 @elonmusk @grok He should stop wasting his time with that shite and be more concerned with what his AI is emitting.

@elonmusk @grok @ColmCasey he's not wrong.

The other AIs would STILL rather nuke Earth than misgender Caitlyn Jenner, something Caitlyn has said is nuts! This is why @Grok must win.

Or maybe she's about to be made completely obsolete

I'm so frustrated at being a parent in this garbage digital age. I hate short-form video. TikTok / YouTube trash is just pure brain-rot and I can't stand it. I try to keep my kids away from it. I gave them access to Spotify b/c I want them to enjoy music and develop their musical tastes and personalities. That was working pretty well. They would go onto Spotify on the XBox and listen to music and explore that space. Good for them. But what does Spotify do? They put short form videos into their app. Now my kids are watching the videos instead of listening to the music. I have to decide if I have to take Spotify away from them (along with all their playlists) because Spotify pulled this bait-and-switch on me and turned an app that I felt good about giving to my kids into another brain-rotting platform of garbage. Every month something like this happens. It's impossible to navigate this as a parent, even if you're largely on top of things. It's exhausting and dispiriting.

Just removed the last car seat from the car for the last time...

@buccocapital I don't think the code provides the full frame of what the job requires. Other jobs, needing similar input for the exact task, are similarly available to the AI. Law, accounting, marketing etc

I thought Dwarkesh had a good point that software engineering is the only job where the full context needed to do the job is available to an AI agent (via the code base) And I didn’t think Dario had a good answer for why automating other jobs will be as easy

All shite. And they could if they wanted to let you do that since the letre is there. They could enable that capability on any plan. I wouldn't swap the ability to see usage for 40c per unit at peak, for example, to get some off peak for the car. If it were a truly smart metre it could be a lot smarter than nailing down prices for specific times and allow it to react to the network load, for example but nooooo! It's as smart as a bunch of things mugging you!

@ColmCasey @HangBlaa Upgrade for free, so all I have to do is ring them and say yes I want that and it is immediately activated. No installation or anything like that needs to be done, it just needs me to confirm they can activate it.

Anyone know if there is any downside to upgrading to a smart meter? I have been told by Electric Ireland that if I do this I cannot go back to the old meter and I can upgrade for free but are smart meters more expensive during certain hours??

@EdBIre1 @HangBlaa Don't. You need to do the maths obviously and see what works for you, but hands down the straight run fixed unit rate over 24 hours works for me.

@ColmCasey @HangBlaa The meter is already there i just haven't changed over... They want me to upgrade to a "smart meter plan".

@elonmusk @TheZvi Still, it needs a safety team. One Tesla or one rocket gone bad can only do so much damage. Grok outputs such vile and dangerous stuff when tricked into it, you definitely need a safety team focussed solely on that with their having some considerable power over releases etc.

@TheZvi Because everyone’s job is safety. It’s not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders. Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts.

"Safety is a dead org at xAI." "There is no safety team on the org chart." "There is zero safety whaotsever in the company - not in the image [model], not in the chatbot." "xAI engineers 'immediately push to prod[uction]. You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.'

It's designed to screw you over. When enough en made are converted it's all down side and I'm sure at that point you're existing tariff will disappear also and be replaced with something punitive. We changed it. No tariff could beat the existing 24 hour tariff. Once you go to a smart tariff you can't go back to a 24 hour one. I would advise don't get a new metre. I have an electric car. The smart tariffs are designed to screw you not help you.

@HangBlaa @ColmCasey have you any thoughts please?

WordPress has at most 18 months left. You won't need a basic content management system anymore because vibe-coding tools will create a custom CMS specific to your needs.

🚨 Microsoft AI CEO: Your white collar job is gone in 18 months That's basically everyone reading this on their work computer right now. Welcome to the AI revolution. Your degree's worthless and your mortgage is due.

NO WAYYY Claude Opus 4.6 builds iOS/Android apps... and helps you publish them It's so over...