bleeding out, lol

waiting in the post jab holding area and they are playing wilson phillips hold on and i am having a moment

This is maybe obvious to everyone, but it just occurred to me why bioterrorism is such a significant model risk. It's analogous to code with vulnerabilities that can never be patched.

The linear representation hypothesis says neural networks encode concepts as directions in activation space. We trained a small model where 7 of 8 features behave this way. The 8th doesn't. $2,500+ in prizes to whoever can tell us how it's actually encoded. Bonus points if you can train a model with an even weirder representation. Link in thread 🧵

Space launch was a clear case where there was a large difference in efficiency between what was possible and what was done in practice before SpaceX. A large part of that was due to everything being locked in to what (just barely) already worked, with huge risk aversion. WIth national prestige or a half billion dollar geosync satellite on the line, speculative engineering ideas that might result in a public debacle were not welcome. When failure is not an option, success can stay very expensive. You need to experiment to improve, and that fundamentally means being comfortable with failure. If you know it is going to work, it isn’t an experiment. I have long believed that nuclear power today is in precisely the same state as space launch two decades ago, but the even more pressing question now is if semiconductor fabrication might also be. On the one hand, Moore’s Law has been a sequence of heroic miracles of technology at the wafer fabrication level, grinding out hundreds of compounding small improvements. On the other hand, fabs are “too big to fail”, and there are elements of extreme conservatism at play. Intel’s “Copy exactly!” fab development exemplifies that mindset – instead of every new building being an opportunity to explore and optimize processes, it was deemed more valuable to just replicate. While each individual machine may be straining against physical limits of technology, it is possible that the systems orchestrating them all together could be far from optimal. The explore / exploit axis is fundamental to all decision making, but human risk avoidance probably biases away from optimal exploration.

someone at this art show made a remote control red carpet stanchion so they can randomly trap people or make them VIP

for your enjoyment

The RF world is insane. Researchers recovered AES-128 keys from a Bluetooth chip by listening to its own antenna from 10 meters away. Crypto-engine switching noise couples into the RF chain, rides the 2.4 GHz carrier, and leaks out as radio.

If the world’s leading scientists say there’s even a 10% chance humanity could be destroyed because of uncontrolled AI, shouldn’t we do everything possible to prevent it? This isn’t about competition with China. It's about coming together to prevent what might be a catastrophe.

Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to change a light bulb? A: None.

@SecScottBessent The existential threat is not about chatbots (governable by global standards). It's about the creation of superintelligent machines that nobody understands. US labs say they run that risk; foreign labs do too. We need international coordination to ensure nobody builds it.

Uncontrolled AI poses a severe danger to all of humanity. On Wednesday, I'll be hosting a discussion with leading AI scientists from the US and China about the need for international cooperation against this existential threat. This is an enormously important issue. Join us.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

今、中国の道路の一部でこういうドローンステーションが設置されている電柱があるそうな。

In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

Imagine Dario hopping on TikTok and saying "holy shit guys wake up, I think we're close to AIs that can automate AI research." Direct communication is underutilized.

all together now...

A primer on existential AI risk typingfactory.substack.com/p/what-are-we-…

Apparently workers in China have been creating “colleagues.skill” to distill their coworkers hoping to make them redundant hence saving themselves. In response someone has recently invented an “anti-distillation.skill” that has gone viral on GitHub.🤣

NEW AD: Donald Trump has made his choice. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare.”