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Tonight before bed time, chatting with my five year old daughter. Daughter: “I believe in Santa.” Me: “You do? How about your friend Eli? Does he believe in Santa?” Daughter: “No.” Me: “Why not?” Daughter: “Because he’s Gibberish.”

Question for Wordle creators (this is from yesterday's game) --- how is "PAVER" worth 5 skill points, but "PAGER" worth 99? #wordle

@guzmansalv @hendrycks 0s and 1s are not coming for you on their own.

@hendrycks I think about this a lot. What reason do they have to let us control them? We're basically apes compared to them

What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a stable, mutualistic human-AI future may be possible.

@om_patel5 The SpaceX deal might also explain why Grok is sunsetting relatively new APIs (4.1) on very short notice.

ANTHROPIC'S CEO JUST ADMITTED WHY CLAUDE HAS BEEN SO BAD LATELY dario amodei at anthropic's developer conference in san francisco said the company saw 80x growth in Q1 on an annualized basis they planned for 10x. they got 80x that's why: > the throttling happened > the usage limits got nerfed (silently ofc) > opus 4.7 felt slower > max 20x customers were getting less than they paid for > support was replaced with bots > they had to rent GPUs from spacex they literally couldn't keep up with how many people started using claude this also explains the spacex GPU deal. they weren't shopping for compute because they wanted to, they were desperate for it because 80x growth broke their infrastructure and it explains every single pricing change from the last 2 months they weren't being greedy, they were drowning in demand they didn't build for doesn't make the user experience any less frustrating but at least now we know the actual reason 80x growth sounds incredible on a slide deck for the users it meant 2 months of degraded service while anthropic scrambled to catch up and the models still feel weak compared to prime opus 4.6 claude PEAKED when opus 4.6 was released. everything since then has been anthropic trying to scale a product that got too popular too fast while the quality fell off

@dobroslav_dev @ThatRetiredDude @xlr8harder @xai Not when you are running millions of tokens per day, it isn't.

@ThatRetiredDude @xlr8harder @xai Compare to Opus it's still basically free lmao

This is terrible @xai. I just spent time and money to migrate to grok 4.1 fast, and you're disabling it with less than two weeks notice, after releasing it in November, with no migration path to a fast/cheap alternative. I will never depend on one of your products again.

@techdevnotes One week notice? Wow.

Grok 4.1 models being deprecated from xAI API without any close alternative with cheap pricing ...

@chefsevenn the greatest steakhouse in the United States of America - The House of Prime Rib -- Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

What comes to mind when you see this steak..

Free from “globalist” narratives? Lol. USER Will we achieve world peace by the year 2000? If so, how? TALKIE-1930 It is difficult to say whether or not the world will be at peace a hundred years hence, but some authorities think that it will. They base their opinion on the great progress made during the nineteenth century towards the abolition of war, and on the fact that many causes which formerly operated to produce hostilities have ceased to exist. In the first place, the numbers of states has diminished. In Europe, at the beginning of the century, there were more than a hundred separate sovereignties; the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, reduced them to fifty-nine, and now they are further diminished to forty-two. In the second place, the personal interests of rulers's have become less adverse. The great sovereigns of the eighteenth century fought for personal glory; those of the nineteenth contend only for the honour of their countries. Again, the personal feelings of the people have been enlisted on the side of peace. In former times, wars were popular, because they were regarded as a species of national sport; now they are unpopular, because they interfere with industrial occupations, and augment the burden of taxation. Further, the diffusion of education has enlarged the sympathies of mankind, and rendered them more alive to sufferings, which they formerly bore with comparative indifference. Lastly, the intercourse between nations has become more easy and frequent, and prejudices have been consequently diminished. All these causes have operated to produce a strong public opinion against war, and, in proportion as that opinion has increased in strength and authority, wars have become less frequent. On the other hand, it must not be forgotten, that the spirit of commercial rivalry has also grown up, and that commercial quarrels may possibly be as productive of hostilities in the twentieth, as personal quarrels were in the eighteenth century. The probability, therefore, seems to be, that wars will become less and less common, but that they will not cease until human passions have been rendered perfectly harmless.

@om_patel5 Wow! It is largely uncorrupted by the post-WWII rewrite of history, and free from globalist narratives. It would be like being able to talk with my Grandparents and Great Grandparents again.

RESEARCHERS JUST BUILT AN AI MODEL TRAINED ONLY ON TEXT FROM BEFORE 1931 it's called talkie. 13 billion parameters, trained exclusively on text published before december 31, 1930 its worldview is completely frozen in time the reason this matters: every major AI model today (GPT, claude, gemini, llama) was trained on the modern web. that makes it almost impossible to tell if these models actually reason or if they just memorized the answers from their training data talkie breaks that completely because it has never seen any modern information the crazy part: talkie can learn to write python code from just a few examples you show it in the prompt. despite having ZERO modern code in its training data. it's figuring out programming from 19th century mathematics texts. that's ACTUAL reasoning claude sonnet 4.6 was used as the judge in talkie's reinforcement learning pipeline. claude opus 4.6 generated the synthetic conversations used in fine tuning. a modern AI was used to train a model that's supposed to be frozen in 1930 the team already flagged this as a contamination risk they want to eliminate in future versions what they're using it to study: > long range forecasting. how well can a model "predict" the future from a frozen vantage point > invention. can it develop ideas that didn't exist until after its knowledge cutoff > LLM identity. what makes a model itself vs what's just patterns absorbed from the web alec radford built this. the same guy behind GPT, CLIP, and whisper both models are open source on hugging face. they're already planning a GPT-3 scale vintage model later this year an AI that has never seen the modern world can still reason its way to writing code. THAT alone tells you more about intelligence than any benchmark ever will

@TheNBACentel She was on her phone. Don't be on your phone in the front row.

Paolo Banchero’s pass ended up hitting a 76ers fan in the head 😭

"In the months that followed, US tariff policy changed more than 50 times, spanning rate increases, rate decreases, new product exemptions, and new product inclusions." taxfoundation.org/blog/liberatio…

@sebkrier Intelligence?

Hard to find people who simultaneously 'get' language models deeply without getting lost in them, have a good understanding of human behaviours, don't approach every sociopolitical question as binaries, understand systemic dynamics and complexity without robbing individuals of agency, hold opposing ideas in mind while retaining the ability to function, and can both zoom in and out of all the above without overindexing on any particular aspect.

@iamjoshknox @tylercowen ping me anytime

@iamjoshknox @tylercowen haha, sure...

@iamjoshknox endless fun / funny with @tylercowen / EconEats

@screentime never heard of it

NBC is cancelling The Steve Wilkos Show after 19 seasons The show aired over 2,200+ episodes since 2007

March 12, 2020 -- The LAST COMEDY SHOW EVER IN NEW YORK CITY This was the day all hell broke loose. It was a good one. @TyTheFisch at the Tribeca Comedy Lounge - - show hosted by Comedian Vincent James.

@pblest @shannonrwatts @jonfavs Poor judgement

@shannonrwatts @jonfavs So this is not actually about the tattoo for you?

I can't remember the last time there was such a giant disconnect over a candidate between online (mostly BlueSky) Dems and Democratic voters. And it's not like Maine voters don't know about the tattoo or other controversies -- Platner gets asked about it all the time. They just listen to and accept his answer instead of unquestionably QTing outlets with a clear ideological agenda. All I'd say is - try listening to the guy. He sat down for our interview wearing an Anti-Fascist Knitting Club t-shirt, talked about how his first community organizing project was fighting an anti-trans school board takeover, and got emotional discussing the horrors of war. If he's a Nazi, he's really fucking bad at it. If you don't like his policy positions or don't think he's electable, vote for Mills. I like her too. But if you're gonna accuse him of being a Nazi, at least try to find a single thing he's actually said or a view he's expressed that in any way aligns with far right (or even just right-wing) political views.

this is…a truly horrible idea.

I'm all for teaching creativity (somehow) but this strikes me as falling into the same trap as failed trends in education which ignore that actual learning requires some repetition and memorization to reduce cognitive load of simpler tasks and move to the next level

I believe that Lawyer Claude is going to create a lot more work for lawyer humans.

@Cashloren @GavinNewsom It's time for you to retire, Bernie Sanders.

@GavinNewsom How is opening our borders to foreign goods and labor good for American families and small businesses?

Even Donald Trump’s Supreme Court agrees: His tax on the American people is illegal. A huge win for families and small businesses across the country who have been suffering under this man’s ego.