maxutility

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What regulatory capture actually looks like(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by maxutility 18h ago|1 comments
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The Three AI Pills(thezvi.wordpress.com)
26 points by maxutility 4d ago|10 comments
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by maxutility 5d ago
I’m disappointed in the level of groupthink reflexive cynicism I see from commenters any time prominent AI leaders talk about AI risks and the need for regulation or pacing. Yes, regulatory capture is a risk, but this is also a profoundly u
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by maxutility 6d ago
I agree that there seems to have been some sort of tipping point on public awareness and willingness to talk about risks. This week I’ve had three “normies” independently bring up AI related X-risk in conversations with me. Before this week
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by maxutility 6d ago
Here’s Zvi’s companion compilation of quotes on the topic from AI lab employees: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-extinction-risk-preference... For example, Drake Thomas from Anthropic: “ I would burn my equity to the
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Jacob Coxon warns of human extinction and triggers a preference cascade(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by maxutility 6d ago|2 comments
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'Artificial' Teaser Trailer(youtube.com)
2 points by maxutility 9d ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 1mo ago
Some quotes, in order, to give a flavor of the essay. Worth reading in full. > To test how well swarms of agents could coordinate on a project like this, we directed several swarms to each create a text-based, web-playable, open-world fa
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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems(anthropic.com)
200 points by maxutility 1mo ago|138 comments
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What Happened: OpenAI and Hugging Face(thezvi.substack.com)
5 points by maxutility 1mo ago|0 comments
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Disagreements about AI are usually disagreements about future AI capabilities(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by maxutility 1mo ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 1mo ago
It’s not a screenshot. It’s a formatted reconstruction from a transcript.
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They're made out of meat (1991)(terrybisson.com)
3 points by maxutility 2mo ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 2mo ago
Agree. The pelican benchmark was interesting a year ago when most models struggled and a good pelican indicated an unusually capable model. Now it’s saturated and uninteresting. A good new benchmark should have awful performance to start an
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by maxutility 2mo ago
New advances in sphere packing? Let’s make sure AI doesn’t inadvertently engineer ice-9.
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by maxutility 2mo ago
When the entire article reads like it’s written by an LLM —- ie the author couldn’t be bothered to write their thoughts out themselves —- it’s hard to give it the benefit of the doubt that it’s worth reading closely.
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Accidental Anonymity(macwright.com)
3 points by maxutility 3mo ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 3mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633594
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Updated Anthropic Privacy Policy (effective 7/8/26)(anthropic.com)
2 points by maxutility 3mo ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 3mo ago
Zvi’s writing style is a bit of an acquired taste, and he has strong opinions which can fall outside of the mainstream, but there’s no one in the industry more well read and known for doing the reading and documenting the nitty gritty of we
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The Fable takedown: what happened when, what we know, what comes next(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by maxutility 3mo ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Favorite prompts for improving LLM output?
2 points by maxutility 3mo ago|2 comments
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Cyber lack of security and AI governance(thezvi.substack.com)
1 points by maxutility 4mo ago|0 comments
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Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream(daringfireball.net)
3 points by maxutility 4mo ago|2 comments
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by maxutility 4mo ago
lots of useful Google search tricks and syntax all in one place. I already knew many of these. But verbatim mode is new to me and addresses a major complaint I’ve had about increasingly fuzzy semantic search.
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Google tools for customizing searches(cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
79 points by maxutility 5mo ago|20 comments
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The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance(theatlantic.com)
2 points by maxutility 5mo ago|0 comments
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Near-instantly aborting the worst pain imaginable with psychedelics(psychotechnology.substack.com)
5 points by maxutility 5mo ago|0 comments
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I can never talk to an AI anonymously again(theargumentmag.com)
5 points by maxutility 5mo ago|0 comments
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Google has a secret reference desk(cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
23 points by maxutility 5mo ago|6 comments

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