Rasool

Karma: 129

[Question] Where do you point newcomers who want to get involved in AI safety?

Rasool7 Sep 2026 13:37 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Rasool 3 Sep 2026 11:36 UTC
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in reply to: Vladimir_Nesov’s comment on: Vladimir_Nesov’s Shortform
Further confirmation about 5.1/5.0/4.1/4o etc using the original pretrain from this Time interview with Greg Brockman
At 8:20 (emphasis mine):
For a period of about two years, right from when we announced GPT-4o in April of 2024 to December of 2025, we were really squeezing the juice out of the GPT-4o model, right? that that we sort of had a bunch of pieces that uh we were improving but that fundamentally we were on the same underlying base model

Rasool 30 Aug 2026 11:43 UTC
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in reply to: gwern’s comment on: How should I judge the impact of giving $5k to a family of three kids and two mentally ill parents?
I’m surprised to hear you describe the effects as modest in poor countries, GiveWell are fairly positive on them, where does your disagreement come from?

Rasool 24 Aug 2026 20:08 UTC
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on: Seriously, use text expansions
I am a happy user of espanso for this

Rasool 2 Mar 2026 15:06 UTC
8 points
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on: Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk
Nvidia is hostile to Anthropic in various ways, despite investments.
What is this in reference to?

Rasool 24 Feb 2026 18:00 UTC
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on: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis—a finance-oriented vignette
Zvi’s comments:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bKrpLhqcoN6WycrFp/citrini-s-scenario-is-a-great-but-deeply-flawed-thought

The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis—a finance-oriented vignette

Rasool23 Feb 2026 17:12 UTC

50 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.citriniresearch.com)

Rasool 20 Feb 2026 14:48 UTC
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on: TV Detector Vans
This person has been keeping track of their dealing with the BBC wrt to their choice not to get a TV license since 2006 (I believe at some point their SEO was so good that searches for ‘bbc TV license’ brought up this person’s website, rather than any official source)
They document things like the technology claimed to be used, and the results of Freedom of Information requests
Other fun pages include bogus/contradictory numbers supplied by the BBC, people spotting vans in the wild, and why the BBC’s threatening letters request people to not ‘write below this line’

Rasool 8 Feb 2026 14:38 UTC
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on: AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team recently wrote about how Opus 4.6, fairly autonomously, “found and validated more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities” in open-source projects
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/

Rasool 31 Jan 2026 15:13 UTC
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in reply to: Derek DeHart’s comment on: How to Hire a Team
Related

Rasool 18 Nov 2025 2:39 UTC
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in reply to: Mo Putera’s comment on: Mo Putera’s Shortform
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-industry-standard

Rasool 7 Nov 2025 1:13 UTC
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on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fiction
The UK Health Secretary in 2021, Matt Hancock, ordered 100m vaccines, rather than 30m, because of the film Contagion
https://x.com/LBC/status/1356882697222836226

Rasool 19 Oct 2025 22:39 UTC
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in reply to: ryan_greenblatt’s comment on: AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine
A few days ago, Amodei claimed that 90% of code at Anthropic (and some companies they work with) is being written by AI

Rasool 10 Aug 2025 10:34 UTC
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in reply to: Lucie Philippon’s comment on: Lucie Philippon’s Shortform
https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower tracks changes to AI company policies

Rasool 26 Jun 2025 21:07 UTC
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on: Situational Awareness: A One-Year Retrospective
Great piece! One minor detail is that Llama 4 curiously only used 32k H100s, rather than the 100k+ mooted

Rasool 24 May 2025 18:28 UTC
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in reply to: bohaska’s comment on: Bohaska’s Shortform
@Jsevillamol

Rasool 22 May 2025 23:48 UTC
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in reply to: Mikhail Samin’s comment on: Mikhail Samin’s Shortform
The Midas Project is a good place to keep track of AI company policy changes. Here is their note on the Anthropic change:
https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower/anthropic-033125

Rasool 19 May 2025 13:55 UTC
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on: A widely shared AI productivity paper was retracted, is possibly fraudulent
Also picked up here

Rasool 15 May 2025 2:43 UTC
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in reply to: Saul Munn’s comment on: Saul Munn’s Shortform
Also consider modafinil

Rasool 30 Apr 2025 17:33 UTC
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in reply to: Mateusz Bagiński’s comment on: The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws
Not withstanding
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”
:P