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The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis—a finance-oriented vignette
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’
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
The UK Health Secretary in 2021, Matt Hancock, ordered 100m vaccines, rather than 30m, because of the film Contagion
A few days ago, Amodei claimed that 90% of code at Anthropic (and some companies they work with) is being written by AI
https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower tracks changes to AI company policies
Great piece! One minor detail is that Llama 4 curiously only used 32k H100s, rather than the 100k+ mooted
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
Also picked up here
Also consider modafinil
Not withstanding
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”
:P
@Alex Lawsen has written about this too:
https://lawsen.substack.com/p/another-conversation-about-other
https://lawsen.substack.com/p/notebooklm-podcasts-but-good
https://lawsen.substack.com/p/getting-the-most-from-deep-research
https://lawsen.substack.com/p/my-current-writing-workflow
https://lawsen.substack.com/p/my-current-claude-projects
Ege Erdil 02:51:22
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I think another important thing is just that AIs can be aligned. You get to control the preferences of your AI systems in a way that you don’t really get to control the preference of your workers. Your workers, you can just select, you don’t really have any other option. But for your AIs, you can fine tune them. You can build AI systems which have the kind of preferences that you want. And you can imagine that’s dramatically changing basic problems that determine the structure of human firms.
For example, the principal agent problem might go away. This is a problem where you as a worker have incentives that are either different from those of your manager, or those of the entire firm, or those of the shareholders of the firm.
It looks like this is a linkpost to:
Might Leopold Aschenbrenner also be involved? He runs an investment fund with money from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Patrick Collison, so the investment in Mechanize might have come from that?
What is this in reference to?