I am losing the fight. If anyone has a space near a BART stop they could volunteer for a couple hours once a week, hmu

Now that's what I call a seasoned criminal 🤪

The book in my hand is of course the death and life of great american cities

Had a very nice time making everyone answer questions about Kitkatgate last night at a panel on whether cities and robots can coexist

Please settle this the civil way: robot fight in the basement of frontier tower

From an interview with Ion Stoica: https://t.co/LhuPTVI2AJ

You might have noticed benchmarks focusing on narrower domains over the past year. That's partly a response to concerns that categories like "text-to-image" are too broad to capture the specific capabilities that matter to different users

Another friend in RI is also waiting on SNAP

He mentored generations of outreach workers in RI. No SNAP and can’t fall back on the food bank.

See the internally criterion from the paper:

For some AI capabilities you can avoid the “is it REALLY reasoning?” trap by focusing on behaviors But introspection by definition implies internal access Still, at some point the exact mechanism shouldn’t have to look human to count @Jack_W_Lindsey on introspection in Claude

“Unitree for the US” is still anyone’s game (keep an eye on the K Scale diaspora)

Dawg I've never been so sure about anything the way this guy is sure he's divined the true nature of consciousness

Now seems like a good time to remember that Musk's lawyers almost missed their shot at a second Ilya deposition by filing a document 8 minutes late

Obviously there are important disanalogies. But relative to some other industries it's more transparent

I like that we often get essays on people's reasons for joining or leaving AI companies. It's the sort of public justification you would expect in a deliberative democracy when politicians announce resignations or runs for office. Feels like the Proper Disposition in these cases

happy halloween

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever shared new details on the internal conflicts that led to Sam Altman’s initial firing, including a memo alleging Altman exhibited a “consistent pattern of lying.” Full story here:

Life imitates art

The lawyers at Ilya's deposition got a little heated

Now I can retire from the game