Anthropic's recent paper, Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models, contains a small experiment near the end that we found more interesting than the…
The folks who wrote AI 2027 have written a more optimistic narrative, which focuses more on hopes for good policies than on predictions about what policies…
There's been a recent call from @dynomight to declare whether and how you're using AI to write your essays. That seems reasonable, so here's my own…
The Sleeping Beauty problem is a famous philosophical puzzle. Described by Elga (2000): Some researchers are going to put you to sleep. During the two days…
The OpenAI AI attack on Hugging Face wasn’t the first loss of control incident at OpenAI, Reuters recently reported, and perhaps not even the most concerning.In…
Someone submitted my musical multitasking post to Hacker News, where Rochus Keller saw it and left some fascinating comments. He's developed a method of foot drumming,…
The most common dismissive response to OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face’s servers is that the models were simply attempting to follow the instructions they were given.“The…
I’ve recently decided that the distinction between the agent which builds your software and the software it builds is nonsensical and antiquated. In the future, software…
Epistemic status: AnalogyConsider some commonly accepted[1] traits of a Human soul:ImmaterialUndyingContains the essence of one's personalityTemporarily instantiated into the world via a physical bodyIdentifiably uniqueWe're all…
Last month, Claude tangled me into a web it weaved, obeying the letter of my command while yet practicing to deceive, in a way that was…