Michael Timothy Bennett

When an agent is allowed to decompose a goal into smaller sub-tasks, it frequently suffers from goal drift. Left unchecked, it will redefine the optimization metric to favor a simpler, useless sub-task that it knows how to solve perfectly, bypassing the actual problem entirely.

Whenever an AI tells me I'm absolutely right, my trust in it drops by a bit

SITUATION DETECTED: Minnesota has become the first state to ban prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. The new law, signed by Gov. Tim Walz, makes it a felony to create, operate, manage, or advertise a prediction market in the state.

What the Actual f*ck are these dudes on. Someone just dropped Open Source Palantir on reddit named Osiris. -Real-Time Tracking: -10,000+ commercial, military and private aircraft live on a 3D globe - 2,000+ satellites including ISS - 1,400+ worldwide CCTV camera feeds - Earthquakes, wildfires, nuclear facilities and severe weather Built-In OSINT Tools (no installs needed): Nmap port scanning from the browser - DNS record lookup and enumeration - WHOIS domain intelligence - SSL/TLS certificate transparency - BGP routing and ASN lookup - Threat intelligence and IP reputation All running on a 3D interactive globe with day/night cycle, 20+ live API feeds, and a SIGINT news aggregator.

Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off. This is what most people think of the hated AI, we don't want it.

which makes more mistakes and hallucinations with formal math and programming?

pretty sure that with this plucky spirit of mine I can bend time actually

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)