Since agentic (~self improving) people seem to have a natural tendency to imagine what they would do if they became ASI, I am somewhat appalled of doomers
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OpenAI Head Discusses ChatGPT Personality in AMA Session
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AMA at 9:30am PT with Head of Model Behavior @joannejang to talk all things ChatGPT's personality. https://
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Critique du classement LMArena : illusion des performances modèles
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There's a new paper circulating looking in detail at LMArena leaderboard: "The Leaderboard Illusion" https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879 I first became a bit suspicious when at one point a while back, a Gemini model scored #1 way above the second best, but when I tried to switch for a few
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Restricting electricity for minors: absurd tech regulation critique
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Je propose d’interdire l’électricité avant 14 ans Ce serait aussi con ! Nous sommes en 2025…. C’est ridicule Accessoirement ça empêcherait nos gamins d’accéder à CHATGPT
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BAIR Faculty Member Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Congratulations to BAIR faculty member @AlisonGopnik who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (
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OpenAI Reverses GPT-4o Update After Making It Annoying
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After mistakenly making GPT-4o "sycophant-y" and "annoying," OpenAI reversed the update, fixing the issue CEO Sam Altman said the company is also working on "additional fixes" for the model's personality and will share more in the coming days
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LLM Honesty: When AI Tells Convenient Truths
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If the Evil Queen's magic mirror were an LLM, Snow White might've been safe. It would've told her: "You are the fairest of them all." No poisoned apple needed.
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AI Results Reliability: Strategic Use Cases Beyond Perfect Reproducibility
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Potentially unnecessary point for you but: it doesn’t need to reproduce reliably to be very interesting, since some actors only need plausible results rather than true results, other actors can ask 20 AIs and vote, and others will simply work on prompts for a few weeks.
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Poker Table Mindset: Reframing Negotiation Strategy
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(An evocative thing poker people sometimes say is “You are at one table your entire life. The other players rotate in and out of it.” That might actually be a helpful mindset for thinking about negotiation; no need to think about others’ opinions on other tables.)
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Moral Rights to Marginal Dollars in Corporate Negotiations
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Not sure if helpful, but a thing I said on an as-yet-unpublished podcast when host brought up my negotiation essay: you, the listener, and your friends and family, do not have any less moral right to the marginal dollar than the C corp you’re at the table with. Go get it!