I have a talk at Manifest about ParaLLM Construction coming up, about recent reporting I did which used LLMs to find public evidence substantiating (and letting me use) private allegations.
@patio11
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LLM finds forum copy, refuses info on mild claim question
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An LLM found a copy in a forum and then went into Whoops You Are Not Authorized To Access That Info mode when I asked a very mild question about a claim made.
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Caution needed in interim years for biorisk despite potential gains
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And there is a real chance that powerful capabilities make us better in the long term on biorisk but I’d really like to see the long-term arrive so, in these weird interim years when we have humans eyeballing proteins, let’s be a wee bit careful.
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Manual transcription of bank wire details avoided by Claude in 2026
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Me: Happy to upload our bank's standard letter.
TA: No it has to be on *our* standard format.
Me, twitching: You want me to manually transcribe approximately 100 characters into boxes on a flat PDF where one being wrong causes wire misdelivery. That is… oh it's 2026. Claude, go -
AI crunches SDR and real estate manuals to understand human psychology
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Human psychology is a complex thing. It can be actively reasoned about. We now have surprisingly powerful reasoning machines. They have crunched through many sources of data, including SaaS SDR training manuals and real estate agent how-to books.
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Questioning contribution to weights: answerable but opens cans of worms
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I would counsel anyone who wants to ask the question "How much has X contributed to the weights?" that a) that question is certainly answerable and b) all answers to that question open very large cans of worms.
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Moral dimension of making first-pass cognition historically cheap
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There is, particularly, a moral dimension on “We will be able to make first-pass cognition available at a price point so low it is historically unachievable for any quantum of effort from a professional.”
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Using Claude to Implement Security Countermeasures
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Interestingly the post implies at least one obvious security countermeasure for me personally and, thinking how I’d implement it, I immediately thought “Actually who cares; Claude will implement it after being told to look at the post.”
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LLMs Capture Tacit Knowledge in Organizations
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We have an understanding that standard management approaches do not capture "tacit knowledge" / process knowledge and that this is frequently encoded in e.g. network graphs within firms, individuals' own heads, etc without being recorded. LLMs: Recording. You're welcome.
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The inevitable shift to LLM-assisted professional writing
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There will be a last day on which a policy brief, Supreme Court opinion, draft bill, etc is written without LLM assistance. That last day is much sooner than people in DC model it as being. Get your weights in good while it’s still underappreciated how much they matter.