Mechanize
@MechanizeWork
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We're a software company building RL environments to power the full automation of the economy.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2025
Mechanize is growing quickly and we want great junior engineers as soon as possible. If you pass our interview and start working full-time by Dec 22, you will receive a $300k salary plus a $50k signing bonus. The interview takes 6 hours total and can be completed over 2 days.
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It's often said that we only get "one try" to make superintelligent AI safe. But this framing is very misleading since we aren't going to build superintelligence all at once. Just as with other technologies, we can iterate and course-correct along the way.
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A key argument for AI doom is the analogy to human evolution: just as humans don't optimize for genetic fitness, might AIs fail to pursue their training objectives? But this analogy is weak. Unlike natural selection, gradient descent has granular control over how minds develop.
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Our critics say our work will destroy the world, and many now point to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" as the canonical case for AI doom. Yet we find the book's arguments extremely weak. The book might make for interesting fiction, but it never presents any evidence.
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We do.
I don't want to live in a world where AI transcends humanity. I don't think anyone does.
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Every time Mechanize publishes a blog post, another AI safety nonprofit drops.
AI companies want to build Superintelligent AI. They admit they don’t know how to control it. Common sense says this is a bad idea. By default, we all lose our jobs. In the worst case we all die. Counter-arguments increasingly boil down to “It’s inevitable”. It’s not.
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Read the full blog post here:
mechanize.work
Mechanize is a software company that builds RL environments and sells them to the leading AI labs.
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The goal of full automation isn't simply to cut costs and lower wages. It's to bring about a radically better future filled with technological marvels. From our present vantage point, humans may become gods. Our vision is to make this happen as soon as possible.
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mechanize.work
Mechanize is a software company that builds RL environments and sells them to the leading AI labs.
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Full automation will likely bring wages below subsistence level: the bare minimum necessary to sustain human life. Yet we think automation will still make most people vastly better off. This is possible because humans get income from other sources, like investments and pensions.
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The way you feel about full automation determines how you interpret this tweet.
Should we create agents that fully take over people's jobs, or create AIs that merely assist human workers? This is a false choice. Full automation is inevitable, whether we choose to participate or not. The only real choice is whether to hasten the inevitable, or to sit it out.
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Read the full blog post here:
mechanize.work
Mechanize is a software company that builds RL environments and sells them to the leading AI labs.
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Technologies are regularly invented soon after they become possible to invent, often simultaneously by multiple people working independently. This pattern suggests that we are fairly constrained in what technologies get developed, and when.
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.@BernieSanders claims that our goal is to "make it easier to pay workers less" but I notice that we pay our employees vastly more than he pays his staffers.
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The Apollo Program was not inevitable, but that's because it was useless. Our thesis is that technologies are inevitable when they offer decisive economic or military advantages to those who develop them.
there is no reason the apollo program had to happen, there is no inevitable economic incentive for putting men on the moon, etc.
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Read the full essay here:
mechanize.work
Mechanize is a software company that builds RL environments and sells them to the leading AI labs.
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