understanding of what the mechanical failsafe which saves the day *actually does*, because it is elsewhere implied that it can be actuated remotely by Ops and that it moved to a locked state versus almost always being in a locked state.
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Security Seams: Rapid Deployment and Access Control Gaps
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“If you go looking for the seams, what do you find?” Example: canary deploy to fleet-wide rollout in 12 seconds per timestamps, no description of why someone is attempting to access raptor enclosure during a shift change (or any discussion or motivation at all), and mysterious
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Mastering Prompt Engineering: Effort and Video Production Skills
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Will happily cede the field to someone who has spent 5X as much effort as I have on getting better at prompting in last 24 months and actually enjoys producing video.
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AI-Generated Creative Content Quality and Economic Valuation
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Result is not Shakespeare but it’s subjectively similar to what you’d expect a Google SRE with a flair for fanfiction to crank out in 2-4 hours, and that’s a pretty expensive person to task with on demand flash fiction.
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Tiny AI Joy Machines: Hyperspecialized Fictional Worlds
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These things are tiny little joy machines, for those five minutes at Starbucks where you would prefer a hyperspecialized fictional world to all the ones humans devote more effort to.
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o3 Generates High-Effort Fanfiction with Competent Analysis
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o3 can write something which would be decently high-effort fanfiction (prompt gestured in direction of “Jurassic Park but with competent people involved; scathing postmortem of five sigma near miss”)
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Management Value Discovery: Leaders Learn What Adds Nothing
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Would extend with “There are a lot of people who think management adds no value, who will discover how little value management had been adding once they are themselves management.”
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Building Experimentation Culture for R&D Excellence
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Sometimes that is doing what they won’t. Sometimes that is doing what they can’t. Sometimes it is building an experimentation machine and culture that will just churn out a large portion of the world’s R&D in your field specifically.
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Competitive Strategy: Maintaining AI Advantage Over Three Years
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The game, when you’re three years ahead of a hypothetical competitor who has a budget of a few billion dollars and a mandate from the CEO, is figuring out what you need to do such that, three years from now, you will be six years ahead. https://t.co/dBq7KD9zCc
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) 5 mai 2025The game, when you’re three years ahead of a hypothetical competitor who has a budget of a few billion dollars and a mandate from the CEO, is figuring out what you need to do such that, three years from now, you will be six years ahead.
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LLM Explanations and the Question of AI Belief
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And then the LLM in trying to explain this to us says “Oh yeah native foliage duh.” And who knows, it may believe that, to the extent it believes anything.