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Bryce Drennan

@bryced8

Creator of imaginAIry. AI engineer. Founding Engineer at @CircleUp. https://t.co/2ASCXGbaUX Nullius in verba.

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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
If there is any truth in heaven, earth, or hell, I want to embrace it; I care not what shape it comes in to me, who brings it, or who believes in it; whether it is popular or unpopular, truth, eternal truth, I wish to float in and enjoy it. John Taylor, 1853
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“A new philosophy of the future is needed. I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe – expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species to see what’s out there.” – Elon Musk

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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
@BenjaminDEKR @DREAMS_137 but maybe you're right, HR/lawyers can do all sorts of weird stuff to properly tick boxes that may not be exactly the same as what started the trouble in the first place.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
If you showed me that in writing from them, I would believe you, but given I dont think you've been a consistent narrator of even your own story, (at times claiming you didnt say grok was bad and others saying its fine you did because Elon said it later), I think its likely they said something different.
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Benjamin De Kraker
Benjamin De Kraker@BenjaminDEKR·
Here is an xAI story. When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited. I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be. I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time). Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Aravind, many others. During the interview and onboarding for xAI, they made a *big deal* about wanting people who "take initiative" and think outside the box. Ok... So, some of the biggest names in tech follow me on X. I decided to ask for ideas and feedback on how Grok (then still early at version 2) could be improved. I asked my followers on X for the best "how can we make Grok awesome?" ideas, and was going to collect them (organized by Grok himself) into a big report for my boss(es) and ultimately, Elon. (xAI makes a big deal about how it's a "flat structure" also. You're supposed to be empowered to act on good ideas.) Well, my post got way more attention than I expected - great! Ideas to improve Grok poured in! I built a script to collect and sort all these great ideas to make xAI's core product better. John Carmack (personal friend of Elon, creator of Doom, id software, legend) retweeted it. Carmack has 1M followers. There were so many great ideas on how to improve Grok! I was collecting them and excited. Until....... I woke up the next day to a threatening email from my main supervisor* at xAI, telling me I had messed up, that I was NEVER to ask for ideas to improve Grok ever again, that it wasn't my job (I thought our job was to improve Grok.) They suspended my account on X. They never explained why. It was obviously related to my post about improving Grok. I was told to delete those posts which had gone viral. I had to delete all the hundreds (thousands?) of genuinely good ideas for improving Grok that had poured in by users on X, because it stepped on someone's toes. It made me confused and sad. Incidents like this happened often, where xAI employees would come in full of excitement and enthusiasm, and would have it stomped out by managers who hated ideas. They filled xAI with middle managers and busybodies. It was one of the most DEI and corporate-y places I've ever worked. I came in wanting Elon and xAI to win and left just sad. *That manager is gone, for what it's worth. Everyone I knew at xAI is gone.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

@beffjezos xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up. Same thing happened with Tesla.

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Bryce Drennan
Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
I'm assuming you had access to Grok 3 when you ranked it in 4th place. Even if that wasn't the case, and you were just sharing your totally uninformed opinion, your original tweet certainly made it sound like you had tried Grok 3. Feel free to clarify what assumptions I'm making. If not for my benefit, for everyone else.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
@BenjaminDEKR @DREAMS_137 Your opinion, as an employee with access to an unreleased model, IS non-public information. The public doesn’t have access to the model, but you did! “I tried the unrealsed model and I think it’s worse than competition”
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Benjamin De Kraker
Benjamin De Kraker@BenjaminDEKR·
@bryced8 @DREAMS_137 There was no "non public information." Grok 3 had already been announced on the official company blog and discussed many times by Elon on X. And it clearly marked as just my own personal opinion about model preference for coding.
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DREAMS@DREAMS_137·
@bryced8 @BenjaminDEKR If the truth is damaging, don't shoot the messenger who was actively engaged in making Grok better.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
@BenjaminDEKR Interesting reimagining. You were fired ranking xAIs *unreleased* model, thus disclosing private and damaging information, without authorization. This was all clear at the time as many people tried to explain to you.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
> new programmable computer mouse. > "only programmable from windows" > GPT 5.4, decompile this driver and write a python cli to program mouse > sure thing boss, here you go. > mouse now programmable on macos
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
Stories are the human version of synthetic data. Good stories update you in ways aligned with reality. Bad ones are data poisoning attacks.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
> want a monitor > claude: "write Amazon scraper, build price model, tell me top 10 best value monitors" > ignore results, buy one I wanted all along > I’m a real corporate data scientist now
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
> Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request. > It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision. But given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider. Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place. Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. We remain ready to continue our work to support the national security of the United States.
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Matt Bateman@mbateman·
@Romy_Holland I like your reasoning, but the opposing reasoning isn’t crazy. Any time you have a new one you’re resetting a clock on that stuff. “Do I want the early childhood phase for 4 years or 8 years or 12 years”, or even more, is non-trivial.
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Romy@Romy_Holland·
it’s crazy that anyone intentionally has only one child. if you’re gonna buy all the baby stuff and baby proof your house and need a babysitter if you wanna go out, you might as well have a few. gotta maximize the joy payout.
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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
Vibe coding genome interpretation is wild. A few hours ago I was 41% African. Minutes later: mostly European but 23% Asian. As of this exact. moment I'm 100% Native American but who knows what the future will bring! I asked Claude what was going on: > Root cause: Fabricated frequencies. the markers had completely made-up frequency data
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ScholarJams@ScholarJams·
Nick Bostrom's new paper, "Optimal Timing for Superintelligence"... as a song 😅
Michał Podlewski@trajektoriePL

Nick Bostrom’s new paper: >Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. > One could equally maintain that if nobody builds it, everyone dies. In fact, most people are already dead. The rest of us are on course to follow within a few short decades. For many individuals—such as the elderly and the gravely ill—the end is much closer. Part of the promise of superintelligence is that it might fundamentally change this condition." >Along one path (forgoing superintelligence), 170,000 people die every day of disease, aging, and other tragedies. >The choice before us, therefore, is not between a risk-free baseline and a risky AI venture. It is between different risky trajectories, each exposing us to a different set of hazards. >Imagine curing Alzheimer's disease by regrowing the lost neurons in the patient's brain. Imagine treating cancer with targeted therapies that eliminate every tumor cell but cause none of the horrible side effects of today's chemotherapy. Imagine restoring ailing joints and clogged arteries to a pristine youthful condition. These scenarios become realistic and imminent with superintelligence guiding our science. >We assume that rejuvenation medicine could reduce mortality rates to a constant level similar to that currently enjoyed by healthy 20-year-olds in developed countries, which corresponds to a life expectancy of around 1,400 years. >Developing superintelligence increases our remaining life expectancy provided that the probability of AI-induced annihilation is below 97%.

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Bryce Drennan@bryced8·
@mbateman @Gena_I_Gorlin An interesting concept which could have gone numerous interesting directions and explored none of them. A surprisingly slow-moving, boring movie that barely attempts to make sense.
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Matt Bateman@mbateman·
Every time @Gena_I_Gorlin is about to watch Shrinking I say “oh that show with the protagonist who brought two prostitutes to his house to do drugs while his teenage daughter was there?” and she gets super mad
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