I don’t mean God literally, I mean natural selection. Dawkins’ point is that if an intelligence can be as competent as Claude without being conscious, why (and how) would nature select for consciousness in humans?
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Framing AI Surveillance: Zuckerberg’s Employees vs. Stealth Mode Companies
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Sure looks like Bun is at least exploring a port from Zig to Rust given this docs/PORTING.md guide for coding agents https://
github.com/oven-sh/bun/bl
ob/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5/docs/PORTING.md
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Author Skepticism on AI Disclosure Compliance and Risk Assessment
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“Indispensable reading” If you aren’t reading my newsletter, you probably should be!
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Debating AI Rules and Data Concerns in Professional Peer Review
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the diaries really don’t help there; maybe you missed the testimony today
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How LLM Language May Be Reshaping Human Thinking
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This recent New Yorker piece asks how much different languages shape a person's thinking. I feel that the "language of LLMs" may be reshaping how many people think, too.
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AI Regulation Hampered by Poor Benchmarks and Risk Metrics
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A challenge with AI regulation and vetting is how bad our benchmarks of AI model performance and risks are. There is no benchmark for risks and red-teaming requires experiments from dedicated specialist organizations & is not easy to put metrics around. No clear objective numbers
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Brockman Questioned on OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Plot
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A few other snippets: — The lawyer then asked if Brockman’s been “plotting for a while” to turn it into a for-profit at the time he was having conversations with Elon over the nonprofit vs. for-profit. Brockman disagreed with the characterization, but the lawyer then entered
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Brockman Questioned Over OpenAI For-Profit Plans in Musk Trial
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The question came during a line of attack aimed at portraying Brockman as privately interested in turning OpenAI into a for-profit company while telling Musk that it needed to remain a nonprofit to keep the “moral high ground." For context, a few minutes earlier Elon's lawyer
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Empathy as Hidden State Modeling in AI Agents
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With empathy, do you mean the ability to model the hidden states of another agent?
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Musk Lawyer Grills OpenAI’s Brockman on Compensation in Trial
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"Are you saying it takes $30 billion to get you out of bed in the morning, but $1 billion doesn't get you out of bed in the morning?" — Elon Musk's lawyer to OpenAI President Greg Brockman during cross-exam in the Musk v. Altman trial