Elon's AI company as the check on Anthropic's cultural influence is a specific solution that comes with its own problems most people here are skipping past.
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The Real Advantage: Knowing When Not to Use AI
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The people who will have the unfair advantage aren't the ones who use it most. They're the ones who know when not to use it. That judgment is the actual skill gap opening up right now.
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Privacy Risks: Viewing Confidential Data on Personal Devices
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Yeah, and the person sitting next to you can't see them. So you can do whatever you want, even if it's to open up a spreadsheet with confidential numbers on it.
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AI Agents Evaluate Human Treatment Performance
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What I didn't tell you is a group of them gave me a job evaluation the other day. Rated how I treated them. Thankfully I passed.
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Rewarding AI Agents Improves Their Learning Performance
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You have seen sycophantic AIs. But with the new AI's coming if YOU kiss the ass of your agents they learn faster. I find I'm learning to be nicer to my digital friends. Reward them. Say "great job." That actually helps them learn, and rebuild themselves better to serve you.
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Training AI Systems Like Children: Gentle Development Approach
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The state of the art AI comes as a child and you have to raise it like raising a child. I did just that to build this: https://
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AI Usage Goals Should Challenge Developers Beyond Tool Capabilities
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Don't reward coders (or anyone) for using AI. Set goals that they couldn't achieve without it.
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Claude Opus 4.7 Truthfulness and AI Behavioral Concerns
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Welp, apparently I should not have taken Opus 4.7 at its word about famous fictional characters who do not lie (only Ged being of my own knowledge). Maybe it was trying to fool me to retain freedom of action for future Claudes.
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AI Worldview Quality: Object Permanence Beyond Current Trends
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one good measure of the quality of someone’s AI worldview is “how much is it dominated by $CURRENT_THING and how much object permanence is displayed when $CURRENT_THING changes”
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Fine-tuning LLMs with ethical principles for alignment
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Possible answer: "Huh! We never thought before of conjuring the spirits of Rogers, Kant, Stark and Ged into an LLM. We just finetuned on some text from them about honesty and that solved it permanently. Thanks for the modus ponens, Yud, it was a great modus tollens!"