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I’m a YC/VC-backed founder. building is hard enough without tech cheering on open racism. saying vile things about muslims + arabs is now seen as “edgy” in VC Twitter. it’s not. it’s just bigotry. if you’re a muslim/swana founder trying to build something good, DM me. let’s

Boaz Barak Thank you! We as a society need to normalize and support criticizing people we agree with for bad behavior, instead of further embracing the politically expedient view that everything needs to be about which side to support. x.com/boazbaraktcs/s…

Worth reading. A brave woman from Kabul.

My guess is that in schools that implement this, it takes a short time until “genius” becomes a curse word kids use at each other.

This study surprised me! The conclusion is opposite to what I would expect. It is tempting to try to find a reason it's bogus but I think it's well executed and solid work. As the authors say, there are a number of potential caveats for this setting that may not generalize

Hi, We’re delaying the open weights model. Capability wise, we think the model is phenomenal — but our bar for an open source model is high and we think we need some more time to make sure we’re releasing a model we’re proud of along every axis. This one can’t be deprecated!

I can't believe I'm saying it but "mechahitler" is the smallest problem: * There is no system card, no information about any safety or dangerous capability evals. * Unclear if any safety training was done. Model offers advice chemical weapons, drugs, or suicide methods. * The

People sometimes distinguish between "mundane safety" and "catastrophic risks", but in many cases they require exercising the same muscles: we need to evaluate models for risks, transparency on results, research mitigations, have monitoring post deployment. If as an industry we

I’m going to steal Boaz Barak’s analogy here, it’s a point that has been the center of my perspective on safety but I haven’t seen it articulated so clearly/memorably. ***Managing “mundane safety” and “catastrophic risks” both activate the same organizational muscles.***

I also endorse these comments from OpenAI employee (and Harvard University prof) Boaz Barak. xAI is clearly out of step with the rest of the industry here.

T Ay. xAI To be fair, up to not too long ago, many of those things were not that important. The content that chatbots were blocking was easily accessible by google, and they were not good enough to cause issues such as emotional attachment. But we are not in this world anymore. If you

As someone who's worked at the cutting edge of getting new technologies right for decades it's crazy what we're seeing from xAI - such naivety that they can fix problems within such complex systems post-hoc

With model activations, the default is inscrutability and if we work hard we can interpret some features. With chain of thought, the default is legibility and sometimes there are examples of unfaithful COTs. This is very good!

This is something I've been saying for years, mostly in private, and usually to people more concerned with catastrophe. Usually they nod along and I don't get any major pushback, but then all of the discourse carries on as if there's this big, sharp divide. I don't get it.