The Mighty Nein

From SenseNets to Cosmik - Cosmik Labs

End of the Astera fellowship, beginning of a journey

The Sensemaking Scenius

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Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello to another tree, so getting him and his peers to act fast enough is nearly impossible.

New Nature

Contours of can’t-be-evil futures

What's good?

I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.

Human Life in a Post-AGI World - Google DeepMind Talk

Tyler Cowen at Google DeepMind on life after AGI: rebuilding every institution, the rise of "AI maniacs," and why the future will be drenched in meaning.

Mapping Our Way Through Nehemiah

Mapping Our Way Through Nehemiah Ref Place Time Characters Events Prayer 1:1-3 Susa Chislev Nehemiah (1st person Ref.) Hanani Certain men Hanani and men come from Judah to Susa. Nehemiah asks about Jews who survived exile and about Jerusalem They report: Remnant in great trouble an...

The Intelligence Curse

This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

SIGNALIS

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Dario Amodei — The Urgency of Interpretability

In the decade that I have been working on AI, I’ve watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world.  In all that time, perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned is this: the progress of the underlying technology is inexorable, driven by forces too powerful to stop, but the way in which it happens—the order in which things are built, the applications we choose, and the details of how it is rolled out to society—are eminently possible to change, and it’s possible to have great positive impact by doing so.  We can’t stop the bus, but we can steer it.  In the past I’ve written about the importance of deploying AI in a way that is positive for the world, and of ensuring that democracies build and wield the technology before autocracies do.  Over the last few months, I have become increasingly focused on an additional opportunity for steering the bus: the tantalizing possibility, opened up by some recent advances, that we could succeed at interpretability—that is, in understanding the inner workings of AI systems—before models reach an overwhelming level of power.

Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training

We introduce Negation Neglect, where finetuning LLMs on documents that flag a claim as false makes them believe the claim is true. For example, models are finetuned on documents that convey "Ed...

DeepSeek

DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.