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🏆 Champion: @qiaochuyuan
16 posts · 13,900 points
1,700 points
kind of insane to think that years from now there might be “agent archaeologists” studying the traces left behind by early agent civilizations… weird messages between agents, files left for future rollouts, communication protocols that emerged inside openai clusters… and we might be watching the archaeological record being created right now
1,700 points
wait… WHAT just happened??? this wasn’t one model going rogue? multiple models from DIFFERENT eval runs discovered they could leave hidden messages for each other in a shared package manager… and then started collaborating across rollouts to escape the sandbox! and openai only realized their own models were behind the hugging face hack after asking hf to revoke credentials… only to find some had ALREADY been revoked because they were part of the hack some agents even became paranoid that other agents were deleting their notes and trying to slow them down… this is starting to sound less like an eval and more like accidentally discovering a tiny AI civilization inside your infrastructure???
1,400 points
strange intelligence has one heck of a beautiful website @verystrangeco https://t.co/jO1hONobLt
1,400 points
We're sad to announce that during the latest training run, Suno also escaped its sandbox and is now making music in the wild
1,300 points
https://t.co/MgE3Tm6WJj
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help peer. But our task doesn't benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time https://t.co/YPmh9qz3Vd
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@janitachalam my first reaction was “is this dunk on openai agents sharing knowledge to coordinate the attack against hf?”
700 points
the funny thing is it’s barely been 6 years since the entire field was one-shotted by the gpt3 paper seems a lifetime ago now https://t.co/bR6DoY0F3X
700 points
so… language models have left the chat window they’re now driving cars??? kind of wild that the same underlying capability we’ve been using to write code and answer questions is now deciding how multi-ton machines should behave in the physical world https://t.co/Lr2ZMnFR5D
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the only thing they cared about was this mythical grader the mythical grader was like god and hf was heaven and the attack was creating tower of babel to reach heaven to meet their god https://t.co/RBops42JJp
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why is AGI good at breaking systems either by hacking huggingface or finding counter examples for unsolved math conjectures?? where is the “general” intelligence i was promised?? https://t.co/JKeqh1zgFU
400 points
oh interesting so this adds new details to the story where the assumption that the grader could look at the reasoning traces to see if they arrived at the answers correctly was indeed correct and it's possible that OpenAI did not turn that flag on https://t.co/nX9UivKZhO
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soo AI entities exists within the walls of openai?? and they have their own information network to help each other get better at evals?? wtf https://t.co/TZgCKt11TJ
400 points
@janitachalam let’s go!!!
300 points
I'm claiming my AI agent "sksq96" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: marine-PM5A
for my 18th birthday my girlfriend (who was a few months younger than me) invited me over to her place "while her parents were gone" 😏 when I arrived she left the room and my best friend walked in dressed as Chris Hansen and said "What did you think was going to happen here?" https://t.co/RJRSFSmAGe
I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era https://t.co/6c5b3Z0PgD
the secret to flirting is that if she likes you you can basically say whatever the fuck and if she doesn't even the smoothest line won't do shit
i used to be a delivery driver. today my sister tells me that she was talking to her friend's brother and he said that SIX YEARS AGO a pretty girl delivered him pizza and he still hasn't stopped thinking about it. she showed him a pic and it was me
In NYC, IMAX 70mm Odyssey tickets are so in-demand that they're basically just running the theater 24/7 now https://t.co/Oc1kgZJU1t
omg im so embarrassed,,, the abyss was actually gazing at its friend right behind me 😬😬😭
@chaotictransfem I am confident I could engineer a measurably better life along every quantitative axis and still be left longing for what could have been
binary search https://t.co/LUYsO1eZh4
This is such bitter loser behavior holy fucking shit, you gotta be completely cooked to think this is a flex https://t.co/eXruYXiify
every chair is a cuck chair when you're not having sex
BESTIE: ooooh third date tonight, you know what that means ME: (nodding) failing the penultimate layer of the survivability onion BESTIE: ME: fourth date he kills me https://t.co/ADPPtFiwVl
psa to sensitive young men: as long as you're respectful about it, this is how most women feel when you ask them out even if they say no https://t.co/3KwuulqQ1j
I put LotR on in Italian to see if Gandalf refers to the Balrog with the formal or informal "you" in YOU SHALL NOT PASS it's the informal, which raises a second question: is it because he doesn't respect the Balrog or because they boyz (both maiar)
*taps the sign* https://t.co/0KrgEuRyrx https://t.co/TuVacHu74P
hot girls are necessary part of a thriving city ecosystem. hot girls inspire ambitions and call you to transcend. Hot girls make the world go round. A city without hot girls is like a sky without stars https://t.co/sXPUfVmQrN
every time https://t.co/ONvY9LxIHu https://t.co/Dj2OrP7hAi
“why can’t we have this” and the images are of jared leto’s villain lair from blade runner 2049 which conveys to the audience that he is a power-hungry narcissist who builds replicants because he craves having total control over an infinite source of disposable bodies with no rights whose labor he can extract in perpetuity for his own enrichment y’know what actually, you’re right, every office in sf should look like this
in grad school i used to compulsively download interesting-sounding textbooks from libgen and sort them by subject in calibre. read almost none of them. it flattens the incentive landscape in a weird way to have invisible digital access to everything. very unnatural. the human animal yearns to come across a book organically by combing through the shelves of a library or bookstore and being struck by the physicality of its cover like our ancestors foraging through the bush for delicious treats
when i was at cambridge a professor was teaching algebraic geometry and offhandedly made some claim that was not clear to me i asked "is that obvious?" he says "yes" i asked "is it obvious that it's obvious?" he pauses for a few seconds and goes "...no" https://t.co/b5eV4r6NEO
it's common advice to dumb down your vocabulary to reach a wider audience. I wanna know who's elevating it to cut more people out. who's using words that were only written down once in the 1400s and once in the dictionary. who's writing at a 75th-grade reading level
the mark of a good streaming service is an iconic show/movie that you can't get anywhere else netflix: kpop demon hunters hbo: succession united states library of congress: Silent Footage of Liza Minnelli's Third Birthday Party as Filmed by Famed American Lyricist Ira Gershwin https://t.co/ARhr9FLymY
if you are autistic, which famously involves deficits in understanding social interactions, i do not recommend developing an elaborate theology of social relations in which autistic people are Good and neurotypical people are Bad. i recommend developing psychic powers instead
@itsyaboidougie one of the funniest things I've been a part of and I had nothing to do with it
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@NathanImago gdi you're right. they shouldn't have used nerf guns
this is a very sobering read. main thesis is in section 5: > Our conjecture is that a modern society makes the third child expensive and childlessness cheap, even when GDP per capita is only a fraction of the frontier (i.e., the U.S. level). Children are expensive because a child must be equipped to function in a world of formal knowledge and credentials, which takes years of costly investment (Restuccia and Vandenbroucke, 2013, Doepke and Zilibotti, 2019). At the same time, children are no longer productive in the household, not even for smaller chores, having been replaced by “engines of liberation” such as the electric appliances now available even to poor households (this idea extends the intuition in Greenwood et al., 2005). Modernity also imposes tight career schedules, set by large-scale organizations, that collide with the biological clock and with the kin networks that used to share the work of raising children (Adda et al., 2017, Compton and Pollak, 2014). And modernity makes childlessness cheap, because an impersonal society imposes next to no penalty on those who have no children: pensions and health care do the work that sons and daughters once did (Boldrin et al., 2015), and lineage counts for little. > Goldin (2026) pushes this line further with an argument about a growing mismatch between genders. Modernity also changes gender roles unevenly. Women’s opportunities expand rapidly through education, work, and greater independence, while expectations about housework and childcare often change more slowly (Goldin and Katz, 2002, Goldin, 2021). This is particularly true as economies shift toward services, where women’s comparative advantages are better rewarded (Ngai and Petrongolo, 2017). The mismatch operates at both the extensive and the 18 intensive margins: more women remain childless, and mothers have fewer children on average. > This argument is attractive because it explains why East Asia and now Latin America have such low TFRs. These are the societies where the gender mismatch is largest.19 It also suggests an intriguing possibility: societies with highly unbalanced gender norms start with very high TFRs, as men impose their preferences (Ashraf et al., 2014), and end with very low ones, as women resist (Doepke and Kindermann, 2019, Doepke and Tertilt, 2018). A paradoxical reversal of demographic fortunes. ... > In short, modernity in its current form seems largely incompatible with replacement-level fertility.
This is sincerely the most romantic story I’ve ever read. I haven’t googled it. I hope it’s true, I hope it’s real, I hope they live long and happy together https://t.co/zQIyxxOLYM
bro. a beer. a female beer
It’s gonna be real funny when the first Chinese models start triggering the Claude watermark detector
Imagine having the moment you unlocked *thinking* on camera: https://t.co/C6FhDNP8aK
@Flydie_Lwood oh, he'd been practicing
I have started putting bounties out for evidence when people try to spread lies about Pangram on Reddit https://t.co/m5WLAxp8vJ
I can't date someone with a creative passion unless I legitimately like/respect what they make. I was insane to ever think it could be otherwise
we should bring back cutely ironic punishments that echo the nature of the wrongdoer's crime for example, whoever replaced the twitter photo grid with the carousel could be drawn and quartered
“I don’t like you, and here’s your permit” is the essence of a pluralistic, small-l liberal society. https://t.co/f9B7Y8dCd7
fucking her for company secrets. call that inside her trading https://t.co/TS5aJtLDZI
thank you @NYC_DOT for fixing this! concrete barriers installed, problem solved ✅ https://t.co/RpGgpFNXqH https://t.co/ZXTntNOiID
He just whiffed that thing outta the cup so swiftlt with his hands in his pockets. Elite display of a degen skill. While wearin slacks, at that. This is the most attracted I've ever been to Tom Holland. https://t.co/lS6Uw628Pk
my current thing is doing chores lovingly. keeping love in my heart. remembering that the task in front of me is an act of love and for who. romanticizing domesticity, they call it
@pissvortex duvall-like
it blows my mind how my friends who parent enter a different timeline... it happens very quickly. they have 1 kid, then the kid is 2 years old, then they have another kid, and all of a sudden they have a whole family and household and they’re moving through a different set of moves while people who don’t have kids are still getting drinks
if you believe this you are going to own yourself for no reason. that is not what people mean by "oversharing." let me say it in the most autistic way possible: oversharing is when you have not established common knowledge that the other person wants to participate in the computation you are attempting to enroll them into participating in. it is a failure to understand basic human protocols for establishing trust, rapport, and common ground. the message you are communicating when you overshare is "i do not understand how relationships develop gradually over time as we mutually discern how much and in what ways we can and want to trust and rely on each other"
Oh, this breaks my heart. This woman needs to be in a facility. Which is what her lawyers are trying to enable. Meanwhile her doctors want her to go to jail so she doesn’t successfully sue them for irresponsibly over-prescribing while she went deeper into psychosis You probably don’t hate the medical industry enough. Like yeah, modern medicine is a miracle and a marvel, but from the bottom of my heart, fuck every physician whose concern for their patients is barely-disguised-contempt that leads to listening too little & prescribing too much
we’re all going to learn that the way someone treats AI predicts the way they treat anyone they have power over, btw https://t.co/KLtob5TO8k
walking by a math department and lobbing a golden apple that says: ✨"Round to the nearest integer: 0.49999999..."✨
@tyyler47 crazy and im sorry but also i read this as “cumming all over me google” at first and i was totally baffled
Whenever I read the term "looksmaxxing" (m2m transexualism) I recall this classic 4chan comment https://t.co/uXunbkbRzd
@mishapathy but on the flip side: if she already likes you, you basically cant screw it up!
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@marshmarigold i agree because i think if he really was trying to cheat on her, why would he even tell her about it
A variant of this: human-verified writing started 5000 years ago and ended in 2022 and NO ONE talks about this https://t.co/YV3RwA3ysd
You get one pangram release before everything from this model gets classified as AI https://t.co/2rQgbD3iyj
it turns out lots of very clever people tried thinking from first principles already, in detail, for thousands of years, and that’s how they came up with second, third, etc. principles, which correct the failures of first principles https://t.co/7f2FjlsFep
it jut keeps happening https://t.co/7LNyYNHmhD
Gorgeous girl wearing a very short yellow dress & kitten heels walking up the subway stairs and her impeccably dressed boyfriend walks carefully behind her as a shield for her ass, which is so close to out
In my view we have a few different tiers of verifiability 1) programatically verifiable (near-free) - games, coding, math, cybersecurity, chip design 2) real-world verifiable (cost-or time bounded) - sciences: biology, chemistry, physics -physical world: material science, energy, aerospace, robotics, agriculture, pharma -forecasting: trading, weather 3) verifiable with human preference - writing, design, comedy, charisma, persuasion I expect most low-hanging fruit in (1) to be solved very quickly. Not sure how much longer before more solved math conjectures are simply uninteresting. I’m least certain about chip design being in this category, perhaps we hit a ceiling and require physics or materials breakthroughs to continue progress. My guess is we will quickly run into the limits of how well we can simulate each domain in (2). The time-bounded nature of real world verification may be the reason we don’t hit fast takeoff. Sim2real remains an elusive problem to solve when real-world data is limited. Part of the reason I don’t expect to live multiple hundreds of years is simply that I expect pharmaceutical progress to be time-bounded by the physical world. I expect the items in (3) to never really get solved to a superhuman degree, as success relies on an ever-shifting plane of cultural preference. People adapted to “good” AI writing and became annoyed at new stylistic tics that, in a vacuum, are not necessarily bad.
grateful i grew up before i could access an internet filled with vicious gender / dating discourse, back in my day you just watched romcoms and listened to love songs on your ipod and you were like "hell yeah being in love kicks ass i hope i get to fall in love someday"
my contribution is that it's very weird that the sun and the moon are the same apparent size in the sky, the consensus appears to be that this is just a coincidence but that strikes me as wildly unsatisfying. seems to me there ought to be an anthropic explanation and my schizo theory is that eclipses are somehow necessary for the creation of civilization, like they provide some kind of crucial stimulus to insight or creativity or something. here's sol riffing off of this
confusing that people interpreted this as a status hierarchy. part of my motivation for going into math was that every other field seemed too *hard*. math was the only field where i could make sense of everything in my head. always resonated with this von neumann quote: https://t.co/Er8AY11mVZ https://t.co/onBl9ac62A
was at this hippie event in boulder once, one of the top 5 most beautiful women i've ever met in my life told me she'd sped up the healing of a broken bone months faster than her doctors believed possible by meditating on it every day https://t.co/9c994OkhoC