David Bellamy
@DavidRBellamy
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Frontier lab members with anti-alarmist views chat on Signal because of how concerned they are to dissent publicly (e.g. losing their job, network, etc.). This truth will come out one way or another.
I think this is a very difficult pill for many scientists and engineers to swallow: intelligence is not the biggest bottleneck in most of the world’s problems.
Finally I stand a chance to step out from the shadow of my arch nemesis
It's funny that my first viral tweet is about viruses
I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands.
And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.
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I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands.
And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.
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Current models are so powerful that this problems gotten worse, because going in subtly wrong directions can be hard to detect! Y'day I realized that Astra had been running an eval on some random synthetic subset of the data instead of the bench, as I asked. Cost me a day!
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