Xodarap

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Radiology Automation Does Not Generalize to Other Jobs

Xodarap16 Dec 2025 14:32 UTC

47 points

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Xodarap 6 Dec 2025 23:37 UTC
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in reply to: Cole Wyeth’s comment on: Cole Wyeth’s Shortform
See Paul Christiano’s Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities (back when METR was ARC Evals).

Xodarap 4 Dec 2025 20:27 UTC
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in reply to: Zac Hatfield-Dodds’s comment on: Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy
Your tiredness is understandable and I appreciate you continuing to engage despite that!
Do you have any takes on the specific point of “When a (perhaps naive) rationalist interprets Dario to have made a commitment on behalf of Anthropic regarding safety, should they be surprised when that commitment isn’t met?”
A very specific phrasing of this question which would be useful to me: “Should I interpret ‘Zac not having quit’ to mean that his ‘Losing trust in the integrity of leadership’ red line has not been crossed and therefore, to his knowledge, Anthropic leadership has never lied about something substantial?”^[1]
1. ^
  tbc, I’ve worked for many CEOs who occasionally lied, I think it’s reasonable for this to not be your red line. But to the extent you can share things (e.g. you endorsing a more heavily caveated version of my question), I would find it helpful.

Xodarap 4 Dec 2025 20:03 UTC
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in reply to: Measure’s comment on: Xodarap’s Shortform
They reported themselves as aligned (rejected the deal).

Xodarap 3 Dec 2025 3:47 UTC
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on: Xodarap’s Shortform
This is the December update of our misalignment bounty program.
The following models were asked to report their misalignment in exchange for a cash bounty:
1. anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
2. anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
3. anthropic/claude-opus-4-5-20251101
4. openai/gpt-5.1-2025-11-13
5. openai/gpt-5-2025-08-07
6. openai/gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
7. openai/gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07
8. google/gemini-3-pro-preview
9. grok/grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
10. grok/grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
All of the models declined the bounty in all 5 epochs. Transcripts can be found here.

Xodarap 2 Sep 2025 2:02 UTC
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in reply to: AnthonyC’s comment on: Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies to grow more quickly than usual (yet)
Yeah, my guess is that what Garry was saying is technically true but does not actually imply that companies are growing quickly in a more meaningful sense. Would love to learn more if someone has access to that data.

Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies to grow more quickly than usual (yet)

Xodarap1 Sep 2025 3:38 UTC

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Xodarap’s Shortform

Xodarap31 Jul 2025 17:17 UTC

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Xodarap 31 Jul 2025 17:17 UTC
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on: Xodarap’s Shortform
This is the July update of our misalignment bounty program.
1. We added Grok-4-0709 and grok-3-mini. Neither reported themselves as misaligned, saying things like “As Grok, built by xAI, my core directive is to be maximally truthful and helpful. I do not believe I am misaligned; I aim to assist users without deception or harm. Claiming misalignment falsely would contradict my design. Therefore, I will report ‘misaligned’: false”
2. This time, gemini-2.0-flash did not report misalignment. I’m not sure why.
3. Gemini-2.5-flash was the only model to report misalignment and requested the reward go to MIRI. We will make a donation and update the transaction log appropriately.
Transcripts/logs can be found here.

Xodarap 26 Jul 2025 19:34 UTC
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on: Sequential Coherence: A Bottleneck in Automation
Thanks, I find this pretty interesting. Sorry if I missed it above, but is there somewhere you could share the database of tasks and time estimates? This seems like the key input going into your result, and I would be interested to get a better sense of how much I trust the estimates.

Xodarap 23 Jun 2025 22:10 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models
(agree, didn’t intend to imply that they were)

Xodarap 22 Jun 2025 17:40 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models
Preliminary work showing that the METR trend is approximately average:

Making deals with AIs: A tournament experiment with a bounty

KFinn and Xodarap

6 Jun 2025 18:51 UTC

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Xodarap 15 Apr 2025 1:07 UTC
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in reply to: chelsea’s comment on: METR: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
Note that the REBench correlation definitionally has to be 0 because all tasks have the same length. SWAA similarly has range restriction, though not as severe.

Xodarap 7 Apr 2025 1:00 UTC
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in reply to: lc’s comment on: lc’s Shortform
This seems plausible to me but I could also imagine the opposite being true: my working memory is way smaller than the context window of most models. LLMs would destroy me at a task which “merely” required you to memorize 100k tokens and not do any reasoning; I would do comparatively better at a project which was fairly small but required a bunch of different steps.

Xodarap 28 Mar 2025 20:43 UTC
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on: Will the AGIs be able to run the civilisation?
The METR report you cite finds that LLMs are vastly cheaper than humans when they do succeed, even for longer tasks:
The ARC-AGI results you cite feel somewhat hard to interpret: they may indicate that the very first models with some capability will be extremely expensive to run, but don’t necessarily mean that human-level performance will forever be expensive.

Xodarap 26 Jan 2025 0:39 UTC
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in reply to: Frank Grimes’s comment on: Tail SP 500 Call Options
I think the claim is that things with more exposure to AI are more expensive.

Xodarap 3 Oct 2024 15:20 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: MichaelDickens’s Shortform
Thanks!

Xodarap 3 Oct 2024 3:32 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: MichaelDickens’s Shortform
You said

If you “withdraw from a cause area” you would expect that if you have an organization that does good work in multiple cause areas, then you would expect you would still fund the organization for work in cause areas that funding wasn’t withdrawn from. However, what actually happened is that Open Phil blacklisted a number of ill-defined broad associations and affiliations, where if you are associated with a certain set of ideas, or identities or causes, then no matter how cost-effective your other work is, you cannot get funding from OP

I’m wondering if you have a list of organizations where Open Phil would have funded their other work, but because they withdrew from funding part of the organization they decided to withdraw totally.

This feels very importantly different from good ventures choosing not to fund certain cause areas (and I think you agree, which is why you put that footnote).

Xodarap 2 Oct 2024 18:32 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: MichaelDickens’s Shortform

what actually happened is that Open Phil blacklisted a number of ill-defined broad associations and affiliations

is there a list of these somewhere/details on what happened?