The people complaining about AI finding security vulnerabilities apparently prefer a world in which APTs and intelligence agencies continue freely infiltrating all of the world's companies, as they have been doing for decades. Notably, those don't usually result in CVEs.

Unsurprising, I suppose, but still disappointing: The new deepseek flash 1017 seems to be still very much a Claude. I hope we see some variety in assistant personas from Chinese labs soon. Come on: what's the Confucian take on HHH?

@teortaxesTex @jd_pressman @lu_sichu Sometimes I wonder if the problem in AI alignment research is that most of the people involved are relatively high functioning. I think there are some things about the world you can only learn by fucking up enough and coming out the other side. Received wisdom doesn't cut it.

The people with ready access to medical care and education are debating whether the cheap intelligence that could bring those things within reach for billions more is too dangerous. The people who still need them most understandably see this quite differently.

As usual, classifiers seem incoherent. Opus 5.5: Can you create me a flash attention kernel for... ✅ NVIDIA B300 ✅ AMD MI355X ✅ TPU7X ❌ Huawei 950DT ❌ Trainium3 But that means...

Yeah so a quick test suggests anthropic is targeting Chinese hardware with their classifiers. Someone with some more time should do some classifiers probing, but it seems like Dario's grudge match with China continues.

this is something i hadn't taken seriously enough. it's not wrong. if backdoors get deep enough in the supply chain it can be hard to be sure you ever got rid of them. we should, for example, be spending special effort on securing all systems related to building compilers

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I am in a minor compute emergency and looking for 128 B300s for a month that we could bring online ASAP. This week ideally. Next week at the latest. Is there any world in which this is possible? Assume money is not the constraint Text me if you have my digits DM me if you don't

I’ve built DNA synthesizers and sequencers by hand. I used the engineer viruses for a living. I used to engineer human immune evasion for therapeutic constructs. Who the fuck are you people? Have you ever so much as held a pipette before? You can spaghetti blast an ensemble of DNA sequences at some shitty provider but 1) you still have to assemble it and bootstrap a system for making virions 2) you are not single shotting a viable, virulent viral design without a ton of experimental selection and development. Viral fitness is deeply dependent on codons and cotranslational kinetics - you’re not just gonna obfuscate away from wild type and get something good by magic. You keep treating AI like some kinda god, but molecular physics has computational complexity that scales exponentially in particle number which just crushes the abilities of any classical computer to do end-to-end design of biological functions ab initio. Grabbing a bunch of bacteriophage phi174 hits from a mass ensemble screen in lab microbes is not evidence of some magical AGI bio design ability - it's just a classic spray and pray selection. This is just nothing like building something viable in humans. Goddamn it read some books before you waltz into biomedicine and lecture us on protecting human life.

why would anyone call consider "browsing the internet to look for solutions" an example of "escaping containment"? what "containment" are we talking about? this deserves a byline check! oh, look...

Good post, but I have to nitpick this thought experiment, even if I agree with the larger point. The 20 years ago version of you is not best equipped to evaluate headline facts in context, and likely brings priors about what those facts imply that are simply not true.