China Urges Platforms to Stop AI‑fear Amplification
There was an editorial in China's Science & Technology Daily last month saying that internet platforms should not amplify content about falling behind if you don't use AI. https://t.co/h9qdo6Uni4 (seen via @mattsheehan88's Substack) https://t.co/vgi6mK6kOa https://t.co/6Oboqu56BI
LLMs Need Human-Level Persuasion to Become Economically Relevant
LLMs won't be economically significant until they can display a certain level of human convincingness. So we need a difficult test for that. How about: Can we get a model that can convince your median startup founder that GDP is actually...
Jane Street Invests $1B in CRWV, Secures Nvidia Chip Access
Jane Street is taking a $1 billion equity stake in $CRWV and as part of the deal, the trading firm will get early access to some of Nvidia's most advanced chips. https://t.co/Q5wpPfkbdq https://t.co/Sy75Mmuen0
AI Hype Fatigue and Subscription Quality Decline
There are two things in particular that I agree with in this @edzitron piece The ongoing pressure campaign to get everyone to try using AI is nauseating. It is bad that after you pay for an AI subscription, it gets degraded https://t.co/SBOw9muSlb
Questioning Dismissal of Stylometric Links Between Back and Satoshi
@JohnCarreyrou what’s your response to people who say that stylometrically, Adam Back’s C++ is nothing like Satoshi’s? What’s the rationale for discarding that analysis
Kids Raised with Eight Languages Thrive Linguistically
The “forbidden experiment” — raising a child with no language exposure — is forbidden for very good reasons. But has anyone studied the opposite, what happens to children in extreme polyglot households? Like where they’re hearing 8 languages with equal regularity...
AI Overbuild Quietly Fades From Headlines
In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about how you don't hear much about the AI overbuild anymore. https://t.co/qkfyqDYIVF
Hungarian Forint Leads Global Currency Gains Today
Hungarian forint is far and away the best performing major currency in the world today https://t.co/fg6Z1FKw5u
New AI Benchmark Idea May Uncover More than Noise
Last night in the middle of the night, I thought of a possible new AI benchmark. Still needs some more work and data though before I can tell if it will reveal anything more than just noise. https://t.co/31MmDMUA7A
Anthropic's Compute Shortage Limits Mythos Rollout
So how much of the limited (virtually non-existent) Mythos rollout a function of Anthropic’s compute scarcity?
Solidarity Struggles When You Have Cool Things
“Solidarity can be difficult if you’ve got cool stuff to lose” I can’t tell if that’s a great line or a terrible one, but either way, I love the new Strokes single https://t.co/DqwWUdXYNP
Concern: Chinese Hackers May Steal Advanced Orality Detection Tech
Yo @AnthropicAI I’m worried that Chinese hackers will steal our most advanced orality detection technology
Satlock Detects Text Similarity to Satoshi’s Writing Style
PRESENTING: Satlock First stab at a tool that can identify how similar a piece of text is to Satoshi's writing style First screenshot is a known Satoshi comment on Bitcointalk. Second Screenshot is a known @adam3us text. Try it out: https://t.co/ztVVG3i57J https://t.co/9um2MvMXMU
Wall Street Banks Showcase Anthropic’s Mythos As
Has any company ever gotten better advertising than this for anything? *WALL STREET BANKS TRY OUT ANTHROPIC’S MYTHOS AS US URGES TESTS
Limited Satoshi Data Hampers Classifier; AI Still Hallucinates
Trying to build a classifier that can predict whether a given piece of text is Satoshi or not. Unfortunately, I don't think there's enough actual Satoshi content to really do that well But also look how garbage AI can be sometime. Read...
