[December 6, 2025] Due to concerns with the validity of
Anthropic wants to stay near the front of the pack at AI capabilities so that their empirical research is relevant, but not at the actual front of the pack to avoid accelerating race-dynamics.
I decided to remove it from the section 0 of the post. (At first, I temporarily added “(approximate recollection)” at the end while checking with Raemon on the details, but decided to delete this entirely once I got the reply.)
I apologize to readers for having had it in the post.
Thanks to @DanielFilan for the flag to it and to Raemon for a quick response on the details and the clarification.
[January 24, 2026] Alex Bores was called a “New York State Senator”. His actual title is “New York State Assembly member”. I apologize for the oversight and have corrected it in the post.
Corrections
[December 6, 2025] Due to concerns with the validity of
I decided to remove it from the section 0 of the post. (At first, I temporarily added “(approximate recollection)” at the end while checking with Raemon on the details, but decided to delete this entirely once I got the reply.)
I apologize to readers for having had it in the post.
Thanks to @DanielFilan for the flag to it and to Raemon for a quick response on the details and the clarification.
[January 24, 2026] Alex Bores was called a “New York State Senator”. His actual title is “New York State Assembly member”. I apologize for the oversight and have corrected it in the post.