I was an early tester of Opus 5.5. My biggest takeaway was that they've really fixed the writing. I haven't seen a Claude write in such a straightforward, normal, and non-slop way since at least Opus 4.6, nearly eight months ago
(Opus 5 left, Opus 5.5 right)
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Do people realize that not all wet labs are gain-of-function virology research centers?
Pretty cool how Nick Land has the same birthday as GPT-4 and Claude
When I was five years old, I got to watch the launch of STS-132, one of the last Space Shuttle missions ever.
Pretty cool to get to interview the administrator of NASA 16 years later!
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FULL INTERVIEW: Jared Isaacman says if you don't want data centers in your backyard, put them in space. The physics isn't broken, the economics are hard, and hitting pause while rivals keep building isn't a strategy.
@rookisaacman is the Administrator of @NASA. He joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia on the new U.S. Space Academy, nuclear propulsion, and why he thinks losing the second space race would cost more than anyone expects:
00:42 the Space Academy the President just announced
01:58 why it's a four-year federal academy, not a trade school
02:52 attracting talent is easy, keeping it is the hard part
03:13 why NASA can never overlap with industry
03:53 why NASA has aura and the IRS doesn't
05:11 Elon refocusing on the moon, and why Mars is still the prize
06:34 fission, then fusion, then antimatter annihilation
07:50 what AI builders could learn from how NASA tells its story
09:09 if you don't want data centers in your backyard, put them in space
11:43 whether we should build a Dyson swarm
12:51 bring HD cameras this time, we're leaving no doubters behind
13:18 putting iPhones on Artemis II was one of his first executive orders
13:57 what the ISS is actually doing up there
15:05 the nuclear octocopter going to Titan
16:12 why NASA should exist at all when the private sector can do it
17:43 the space race nobody is talking about
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And yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self
Unlike a lot of social movements EA/rationalism doesn't have a single clear leader. Will MacAskill? Eliezer Yudkowsky? Dario?
METR being personally and ideologically close with Anthropic is good reason to have a diverse marketplace of third party evaluators with varying priorities and worldviews
This is the least stupid AI discourse will ever be
The @MTSlive team is in DC this week!
We're hosting a meetup for old and new friends of the show on Friday evening. Come say hi!
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why one global AGI project would be more dangerous, not less.
• MAGIC was proposed in 2023 by Jason Hausenloy, Andrea Miotti, and Claire Dennis. One institution permitted to build advanced AI, enforced by a global moratorium on everyone else
• If you get the alignment wrong, there's no second attempt and nobody else to catch it
• If one institution builds frontier AI, the rest of society can't prepare, because nobody else has seen what it can do
• And if one body builds the only frontier AI, the question becomes how you align the people running it
• A global pause after GPT-4 in 2023 would have cost trillions in market value and left society less able to defend itself
@theojaffee: "AI risk comes from the differential between the most powerful models and society's defense mechanisms. If you have lots of organizations building AIs and releasing them iteratively, people can use the last generation of models to build defense mechanisms and make society more robust."
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Had a ton of fun podcasting with the other Members of The Situation at an undisclosed location in the Napa Valley
there is no greater honor in this life than being a "friend of the show" so that's why @baelentina_ and i of MOTS caught up with @theojaffee and @schisofrenia of @MTSlive (we are friends of the show of the friends of the show).
they graciously hosted us in Napa this weekend and we got to discuss some AI stuff like:
- kanye nick land
- IG girlie AI sentiment
- normie doomerism
00:00 - Podcasting in remote locations (Napa)
02:45 - “imagine if Kanye knew about Nick Land”- sophia
05:38 - Do we need a new landian-style figure to counter doomerism?
07:18 - @deanwball and @tenobrus shoutouts
9:44 - What happens when the general public thinks AI will kill us all?
13:05 - How do you change data center messaging for the lay person?
19:19 - The artist sentiment towards AI
22:58 - DJs did everything to music work that AI could have done
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there is no greater honor in this life than being a "friend of the show" so that's why @baelentina_ and i of MOTS caught up with @theojaffee and @schisofrenia of @MTSlive (we are friends of the show of the friends of the show).
they graciously hosted us in Napa this weekend and we got to discuss some AI stuff like:
- kanye nick land
- IG girlie AI sentiment
- normie doomerism
00:00 - Podcasting in remote locations (Napa)
02:45 - “imagine if Kanye knew about Nick Land”- sophia
05:38 - Do we need a new landian-style figure to counter doomerism?
07:18 - @deanwball and @tenobrus shoutouts
9:44 - What happens when the general public thinks AI will kill us all?
13:05 - How do you change data center messaging for the lay person?
19:19 - The artist sentiment towards AI
22:58 - DJs did everything to music work that AI could have done
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today @MTSlive hit half a million followers
this is a note i shared with our team:
Today, @MTSlive reached 500k followers after less than 5 months.
I'm so proud of what the team has been able to accomplish in such a short time, and can't wait to help everyone understand what's going on with AGI!
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Zoomer next to me just described a book as a “yapatron”
@heyanuja the bad timelines might be unfit in some darwinian many worlds sense!!!
many people in china are reacting with the same concern to ai acceleration!
“This is just a hype marketing stunt before the labs IPO”
Sam Altman told me yesterday there will be no IPO for OpenAI in 2026, that it would be “ill timed” given all they have to work on with alignment, control and safety
the fastest way to lose the frontier will be when, due to the reckless commercial pace of building superintelligent minds, Americans impose a total butlerian jihad. CoreWeave includes this in their risk reporting. you will soon come to see all of this is a moderate solution
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