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Very important update from UK AISI. This is a meaningful change from the previous report. Here’s what the new data would look like for “Mythos Preview (new)” with $ on the x-axis:

now you, too, can work from the pool 🏝️

@spacetime_worm “token efficiency” means nothing if one model is a d28 and another is a d140 one token is not the same flops, cost, wall clock time, nothing! it’s literally a useless metric

@rapha_gl still interesting to see returns to inference scaling, how far you can go before saturating plus implied token efficiency

am I crazy or does the AISI plot going around seem very misleading? “tokens” is a meaningless x-axis if you don’t match model sizes. they should report “cost” as a public-facing proxy for flops

@charliermarsh you’ve seen nothing yet! ;)

On your first day at OpenAI they give you a crash course on vagueposting

Rumor has it they are still evaluating GPT 5.5 on goal mode because it won’t stop

@_aidan_clark_ spicy subtweet

I don’t mind the flaky (ok I do, but as a separate point) I just think moving quick is bad for self-development. Like, watching someone widely considered incredible become someone considered bad is an important step in understanding how the world works and that takes time!

after the chatgpt release, a vc friend asked me which startup i was most excited about. i named a little HCI studio. this surprised him, but i stand by it: we have a whole new computing paradigm and the UX is still mostly an afterthought

@tszzl i think not enough of the design space has been explored

@rapha_gl was there an alternate path?

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study

a country of goblins in a datacenter

this is goes hard

@Miles_Brundage my boy maggie would mog clav any day

Spending too much on Twitter bc I thought that was Clavicular on the left for a second x.com/chesscom/statu…

@ekindogus @periodiclabs congrats dogus!!

We aim to make Onnes proud!

@LiamFedus congrats!!

Industrial-scale science. Coming to a lab near you this summer.

god, vague posting really is kinda annoying lol. we're sorry about that! anyways here's a blog post openai.com/index/introduc…

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do you think it hurts the model when the epoch finishes