Nathan Calvin
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General Counsel and VP of State Affairs @EncodeAction
This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video: How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes? "Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone..."
EXCLUSIVE: White House unveils its first national AI legislative framework, pushes Congress to act 'this year' #AI @MichaelKratsios @mkratsios47 @DavidSacks @WhiteHouse foxnews.com/politics/white…
Company: Anthropic Date: March 2nd You probably didn’t notice, but a few weeks ago, Anthropic quietly updated its legally binding safety framework, the Frontier Compliance Framework (FCF). We took a look at what changed. 🧵
This AI Scouting Report is for folks who know the @METR_Evals chart, but don't know that @OpenAI plans to have a fully automated AI researcher in 2028. 90 slides in 1 hour at @UCLaw_SF @LexLabSF's Law & AI Certificate Program. Buckle up!
This is old news by now, but for those who don't already know -- there's a preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for next Tuesday (3/24) in Anthropic's N.D. Cal. case. If that goes well for Anthropic, they could get a court order stopping the SCR designation from going into effect then, or shortly thereafter. The government's opposition to Anthropic's PI motion is due today (that should be interesting reading) and Anthropic's allowed to file a reply to that opposition no later than Friday.
Introducing 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔: Rethinking depth-wise aggregation. Residual connections have long relied on fixed, uniform accumulation. Inspired by the duality of time and depth, we introduce Attention Residuals, replacing standard depth-wise recurrence with learned, input-dependent attention over preceding layers. 🔹 Enables networks to selectively retrieve past representations, naturally mitigating dilution and hidden-state growth. 🔹 Introduces Block AttnRes, partitioning layers into compressed blocks to make cross-layer attention practical at scale. 🔹 Serves as an efficient drop-in replacement, demonstrating a 1.25x compute advantage with negligible (<2%) inference latency overhead. 🔹 Validated on the Kimi Linear architecture (48B total, 3B activated parameters), delivering consistent downstream performance gains. 🔗Full report: github.com/MoonshotAI/Att…
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
This passage in the New Yorker piece on the Anthropic DOW conflict yesterday, including a back and forth between the journalist (Gideon Lewis-Kraus) and an anonymous admin official, is gonna stick in my mind for a long time. “We must also remember that Cyberdyne Systems created Skynet for the government. It was supposed to help America dominate its enemies. It didn’t exactly work out as planned. The government thinks this is absurd. But the Pentagon has not tried to build an aligned A.I., and Anthropic has. Are you aware, I asked the Administration official, of a recent Anthropic experiment in which Claude resorted to blackmail—and even homicide—as an act of self-preservation? It had been carried out explicitly to convince people like him. As a member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team told me last summer, “The point of the blackmail exercise was to have something to describe to policymakers—results that are visceral enough to land with people, and make misalignment risk actually salient in practice for people who had never thought about it before.” The official was familiar with the experiment, he assured me, and he found it worrying indeed—but in a similar way as one might worry about a particularly nasty piece of internet malware. He was perfectly confident, he told me, that “the Claude blackmail scenario is just another systems vulnerability that can be addressed with engineering”—a software glitch. Maybe he’s right. We might get only one chance to find out.” I really recommend everyone read both the full New Yorker piece and Anthropic’s research on persona selection (both linked in the replies) and then spend a while sitting with the disconcerting situation we may have found ourselves in.
