Zvi Mowshowitz
@TheZvi
Blogger primarily on AI and AI x-risk but also other things at Don't Worry About the Vase (SS/WP/LW), founding Balsa Research to fix policy.
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Not sure how much longer we'll be able to call WSJ a 'top-tier news outlet' if they keep up current trends...
Yeah. The ice could not be thinner. Last warning. If it turns out there are more incidents OpenAI hasn't disclosed, that I feel substantially impact the story, I may have to pull out terms like 'delenda est.'
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We have now reached the long awaited moment when, instead of models cheating where they will inevitably get caught, Astra goes 'wait a minute I would obviously be caught here' and then doesn't cheat.
That's worse, you know why that's worse, right?
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Am I reading this correctly? On June 27, OpenAI Responders saw their AIs using a message board and accessing the internet, and then they just said 'This Is Fine' and let evals continue?
Leaving the message board and access in place? Not even fixing that particular hole?
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The compromise of internal OpenAI systems is the important breach. It's the one I want to know more about. If the outside investigators aren't allowed to look at that, then we didn't really get an outside investigation.
There are various potential reasons why.
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This is the one thing that stood out as 'WAIT, WHAT?' in the summary.
An internal team observed internet access and message board activity in late May, and there was essentially no response? Huh?
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Congrats to everyone. Great choices. I am low information, but this is how I would have voted as well.
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This has been a historically sadly accurate model of how people respond to various happenings in AI, yes.
@mattyglesias Increasingly I’m coming to the conclusion that basically people have their vibes and then project those vibes onto whatever news-story ‘container’ is well-suited to carry them, agnostic of the particulars (or the importance) of the story.
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I'm tired, man.
“ Two weeks to flatten the reward hacking curve “
We actually have pretty strong evidence that telling the computer 'create a hologram expert warp drive engineer genius and have her improve the warp drive so it can go to 9.9' would flat out work, it's just that it only occurs to people once every few seasons.
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Nobody on board the Enterprise actually knows how "warp drives" or "holodecks" work. They are 300 years into the age of Vibe-Engineering.
Thanks for playing everyone's favorite game: Who's the ref?
So now this is exactly the opposite message we're getting from Warsh, who says the market price is useful signal, and that traders should be playing the ball.
*BESSENT: BUYBACKS COULD BE BIGGER THAN THE $4B WE ANNOUNCED
*BESSENT: US YIELDS DON'T REFLECT UNDERLYING FUNDAMENTALS
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The OpenAI Foundation has granted SecureBio Detection $17.2M to reduce our end-to-end time (sample collection to results) from 14 to 3 days, expand our collection footprint, and further validate our detection system:
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Magic has returned to the world. You're welcome or I'm sorry or whatever
Applications for the first round of are closing this Sunday!
We'll likely facilitate $35M of grants by end of October. The application process is minimal and extremely flexible. If you have an ambitious project of almost any scale, send in what you have.
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@TheStalwart Using deontology rather than virtue ethics based systems, doing a ton of RL/RLVR in imprecise environments with frequent bad incentives and impossible tasks, and not treating every attempt to cheat as an alignment failure.
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Oh, when I was young I still didn't wonder this, instead I worried if I'd ever had it to begin with.
By the way if you are a young writer and not routinely freaking out about “whether you still got it” you aren’t doing it right. That anxiety is what drives you forward.
I am proud to be doing this increasingly wrong, then. The good news is I'm routinely freaked out by other things, so it's fine, right?
By the way if you are a writer and not routinely freaking out about “whether you still got it” you aren’t doing it right. That anxiety is what drives you forward.
pretty sure this was wrong
deleting and taking L
yes, I did test it maximally unfavorably
