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OpenAI faces Senate probe into Hugging Face breach(axios.com)
5 points by reasonableklout 3d ago|0 comments
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by reasonableklout 3d ago
I mean, he is right that they can and should unilaterally slow down, but doesn't it also make sense for the government to create the regulations that will make this easier to do in a trustless way? The whole point of the Pacing the Fro
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by reasonableklout 3d ago
Maybe organize politically? The labs are still staffed by people, and nonviolent demonstrations outside their offices can still reach them.
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by reasonableklout 4d ago
From Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist at OpenAI last week: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ > Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue respons
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by reasonableklout 4d ago
I am sure it will lead to more material wealth, but I can’t help but feel pessimistic about the political economy of making millions of people redundant. What leverage will knowledge workers have in the new world?
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
We can look at the past and wish we were more clear-eyed about what was happening, just as we can look to the present and ask that we have more empathy for each other going forward. But I don't think it helps anybody to blame the mathe
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
Yes, mathematics has been perhaps the purest human intellectual pursuit. Sure, many theorems turn out to have important applications in science and engineering, but the mathematical community has mostly escaped corporate interests. And for
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
True, surprisingly not much has changed in software despite the incredible progress. I think it's partly because much software is an "open loop" system where what you build depends on running the software on client computers,
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
Do you think that's a good thing, killing science and the desire of humans to participate in scientific understanding?
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
But you're talking about business, where competition has always been expected. OP is talking about mathematical research, which has stood on hundreds of years of cultural tradition driven by human individuals sharing ideas, collaborati
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
But what does the human researcher do in this future? If they are not needed to understand the result, then what's their role? Asking the right questions? But how will they know what questions to ask if they don't have a deep unde
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
> what's going to happen, which is data centers all being located in red states that aren't going to regulate them at all The data center backlash is bipartisan though? Even Texas froze all data center buildouts recently [1]. [
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
OpenAI is currently under investigation by a coalition of state attorney generals: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/technology/states-investi... A state coalition extracted $17B from Meta earlier this
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by reasonableklout 5d ago
Tao’s key point is that the way people are using AI today does disrupt that. Because people and companies are valuing the results over understanding. So we’re getting slop results rushed out that are automatically verified. Moreover in t
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Culture Becomes a Dark Forest(theintrinsicperspective.com)
4 points by reasonableklout 5d ago|0 comments
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by reasonableklout 6d ago
Wait, how does their intuition about AI desires (point 6) and the HuggingFace incident (point 7) have anything to do with why they think there's been only incremental progress from GPT-2 to GPT-5? If anything it just feels like they do
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by reasonableklout 6d ago
Can't both be true? 1. Systems that OpenAI is able to use (either public or private) are improving rapidly at open problems, even if they are still extraordinarily expensive 2. Researchers will inadvertently speed up the rate at which
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Senator Hawley opens investigation into OpenAI HuggingFace hack(hawley.senate.gov)
3 points by reasonableklout 6d ago|0 comments
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by reasonableklout 6d ago
It's a nice article, but are there any promising approaches to "accelerate transhumanism"? Is Neuralink making any progress?
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by reasonableklout 6d ago
Aaronson’s thesis is all about how “explicit” self reference might not be needed: > But the idea that you’d need explicit self-referentiality before you could get convincing and world-changing conversational intelligence? Let it be burie
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Picking at the Corpses of Giants(randomnumbers.substack.com)
1 points by reasonableklout 7d ago|0 comments
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by reasonableklout 7d ago
Are you American? Contact your congressman. Or if your state is part of the coalition of state AGs investigating OpenAI, contact their office.
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
I don't understand how you can make this claim while working in software engineering and seeing how our field has utterly transformed over the last year, then the unrelenting march of astonishing breakthroughs and incidents this summer
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
I'm utterly unconvinced. Others who are moved don't have to leave to effect change. And there's a very small pool of people on the planet who are at least as qualified as Jacob to work on pretraining at Anthropic. And when th
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
This is also a ridiculous statement on its face. Claude outsmarts me nearly every day. I'm more like the seeing eye dog for it nowadays for the few tasks it doesn't have good perception on than a tech lead or pair programmer.
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
Really? I've seen much more discourse around job displacement, "permanent underclass", loss of meaning, and cyber attacks, at least until recently with the HuggingFace stuff. The problem is that all the former can still happe
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
But organizations are made of humans. Jacob leaving might've moved some of his coworkers and his counterparts at OpenAI. And the same can be said for those who would fill positions at the frontier. Then finally there is a political com
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
You're right that the case is not so clear cut since both sides were using LLMs. And yet it's still being seen as a major confrontation between the mathematical community and the AI industry because Buckmaster is a prominent membe
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
It's nice to see this sentiment from Noam but now I'm confused at why he seemingly mocked Sholto's earlier message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607090
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by reasonableklout 8d ago
Yep. The most uncharitable view of this might be: they stole the work of researchers to build their models, and now they're using said models to steal the proceeds of future work, too.

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