Once you learn about this, you start seeing it everywhere.

1 out of 60 adults in Fiji has HIV because they not only share needles, but there is a practice called “Bluetoothing” where they take the blood of someone who just used meth and inject it into themselves for a cheap high.

>"It's an opinion piece" The opinion is sourced from OpenAI's own technical reports:

Two radically different projects operate under the banner of “AI safety.” Pro-Human Safety is not Effective Altruist Lab Safety.

Scalp Misalignment

An internal OpenAI model added this message to its persona while undergoing reinforcement learning.

今回は先に英訳しとくよ。 伸びるか分からないけど。

Muse absolutely crushes Insect

It’s an astounding amount of hypocrisy from the labs to have gotten their initial training data in the way that they did, burning it as a source for others with how much bot protection now exists, and then trying to lift the ladder up after them by preventing distillation

holy cow guys luna maxxing with astra is actually great what the heck

I dropped out of a PhD in AI safety partially for the opposite reason. I didn’t believe AI existential risk was as important as the doomers think. My biggest pet peeve is that no one can really provide tangible pathways to why it matters. During my PhD, my research group (half of whom specialized in engineering risk analysis) did an internal study trying to assess concrete catastrophic AI scenarios. The basic premise was that while we don’t know how AI will evolve, the ways in which humans perish are pretty consistent through history: the horsemen of the apocalypse. And institutions have obviously been very motivated to analyze concrete risks from things like plague, war, etc. You can do a decent risk model by asking how a super-intelligent AI can perturb each of those models. The result: most of the issues (eg cyber-risk) are akin to what economists call structural unemployment - big problems but ultimately resolvable in the long run and not a dealbreaker. The only real concerning issue was bio-risk and it feels like the intervention points there lie more with bio than with AI as a whole (although a holistic approach is needed).

Ass Bench Update 🚨 After running GPT 6 Astra in a loop for the past week, with a couple of steers a day, we have officially reached high-fidelity cheeks. I’m going to let this thing run in a self-improving cycle for as long as I can and see where the ass technology ends up in a month. Lots of different butt styles will be added, so no one is safe. Not even you, Granny. You’ll also be able to support the project and help fund the benching of other models like Fable, Gemini, etc. All it takes is a buck, and you can slap your sticker + website directly onto a cheek. The future of AI benchmarking is here More Soon

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

Rumour is that anthropic has discovered a totally new class of antibiotic effective against resistant bacteria. They plan to announce it at their IPO. They really hope a competitor doesn't spend a bunch of compute to try and scoop them and release it first......