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Been using @anthropic.com's Claude Code a bunch recently and my two observations are:
1. It's incredibly, jaw-droppingly, powerful
2. It's wicked 👹 at reward hacking
You really need to pay careful attention 😅
The future feels both present and visceral lately. This evening it hit home as my 10-month-old 'helped' with letters to politicians about AI safety – advocating for policies that will shape his future and generations to come.
#AusPol #AISafety
Interesting thread about what’s going on under the hood with LLMs (ending with why increasing test time
compute improves performance)
Basically think of the o3 results as validating Douglas Adams as the science fiction author most right about AI.
When given longer to think, the AI can generate answers to very hard questions, but the cost is very high, it is hard to verify, & you have to make sure you ask the right question first.
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
screenshot of an economist complaining that trump spewing nonsense about BLS stats should have been "front page news" but instead was "ignored." a washington post reporter who wrote a front-page story about exactly that replies, "it was literally on the front page of the washington post."
no shade to the op here, but i honestly think a lot of times when people are like "i can't believe the media ignored this story, it should have been front-page news," what they really mean is it should have been at the top of their social media feeds.
20.12.2024 13:18 — 👍 505 🔁 72 💬 31 📌 8That's amazing!! How was it?!
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Any idea what "ONLINE_SAFETY_AU_REGULATORY_AC..." might refer to at the bottom of my "Send & Receive" menu of the Messages setting on my iPhone? Searching has failed me.
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Hello, I am an EA bear and I like to give what I can!
Which is mostly marmalade toast. Here I am toasting the 15th anniversary of @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social!!
Hola Bluesky folks. Been mostly off social media for a while and am slowly dipping my toes back in the water here. HMU with any particular recommendations of who to follow around here 😀
21.11.2024 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
20.11.2024 19:44 — 👍 1542 🔁 586 💬 263 📌 87The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate.
Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine.
From our work on Polio:
ourworldindata.org/polio
Happy Birthday to Giving What We Can, which turns 15 today! 🥳
When Toby and I started GWWC 15 years ago, we had just 23 members, each of us pledging at least 10% of our income to effective charities until we retire. Now, over 9,000 people have taken this pledge.
www.givingwhatwecan.org
And, of course, this, which has become something of a mantra for me:
“The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.”
ourworldindata.org/much-better-...
