Benjamin Riley
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@benjaminjriley
Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture to improve understanding of human cognition and generative AI.
Only a legend can get it right.
Last decade, in order to trick VCs you had to promise to do something good like revolutionize blood testing or halt global warming. Now the move is to promise to do something classically evil like corrupt the youth or conjure unholy simulacra of the dead. Makes you think.
now that people are just posting gpt-5's output to arxiv, isnt it about time we had the asi talk with the normies? like, dont get too attached to earth, dont get too attached to your human bodies, etc no one has any idea what is coming
Here's a good example of how tool use doesn't fix everything. The answer to this should be dead easy if you can use Python. s = ")|()) [...]" s.count(")|(") I believe many people would expect "ChatGPT 5 Thinking" to be able to get this with Python. The answer is 41.
@flyingcrouton Is the difference that "0.5" means "half of 1, specifically" but "half" means "half of the whole, which may or may not be 1"?
this has always been wrong - but now categorically wrong in the era of RL on verifiable domains models are truth seeking and even interact with a hard outside world via tool use
The brains of healthy people aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic than did the brains of people analysed before the pandemic began go.nature.com/4maDq5m
All this meant that Claude failed to run a profitable business.
