zach

as a yimby, building more housing would be way more popular if we built apartments with beautiful stone facades rather than soulless grey condos

I have a theory that a formal date is often actually a terrible setting for discovering attraction. Sitting across from someone with the explicit purpose of evaluating romantic chemistry can make it harder to feel. People are often much hotter incidentally, when you get to see them in their element

america has so many regional sandwiches but so few regional soups... i'm sure this says something about our culture but im not sure what

this is so bleak

‘In one experiment, we asked agents in separate VMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache’

Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy explicitly forbids external evaluators from having close personal relationships with anyone at Anthropic (including being roommates)