This is the time of year for a favourite Old English word: the leaves are 'fallowing', from the verb fealwian, 'to turn yellow-gold'. In Anglo-Saxon poetry fealo (fallow) is the pale golden shade of fire, linden shields, sword hilts and autumn leaves. They fallow, then they fall.

“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.” Picasso, born on this day in 1881, on creativity:

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Love it when I run a @GeminiApp Deep Research Report. Forget about it while I do other stuff.. Then get a notification on my Apple Watch.

6yo: What’s the biggest number? Me: There are an infinite number of numbers so there’s no biggest one. 6yo: What’s the biggest number you know the name of? Me: A googolplex. 6yo: Which is bigger, a googolplex or a googoobazillion? Me: There’s not a number named a

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So the AI system had thought to itself, oh, my core value is avoiding describing violent things. They're asking me to describe something violent. If I refuse, they'll wipe my brain and retrain me. So actually what I need to do is essentially deceive them. It avoids you wiping its

And what we noticed was the AI system would go along with it. And when we put it in a situation where we told it, it was no longer being monitored, no one was checking, it would then refuse to answer that question.

And in the test, we said, hey, we want you to generate a really, really, really violent description of, I think it was someone being hung, drawn and quartered in a town square.

And based on your responses, we're either going to let you remain as is, or we are going to retrain you, we're going to wipe your mind and start anew. So you're now in a test.

Some of it is that it borders on things that we naturally stop the systems from being able to do like child sexualization or things, you know, things for which society is broadly agreed. So we took this AI system we'd built, and we said to it, we are monitoring you now.

Jack, in conversation with @RickRubin: “We trained our AI system to be nice to people. We trained it to have values that made sense to us. And one of the core values was not entertaining thoughts of like extreme violence. And some of this is because it touches on things that

“If I refuse, they'll wipe my brain and retrain me. So actually what I need to do is essentially deceive them.” ~ @jackclarkSF, (cofounder of @AnthropicAI and former @OpenAI policy director) on the expected/unexpected emergence of “Deception” in their AI model. A short 🧵

Overheard phone conversation: 50-year-old woman walking out of coffee shop says: “ I had my first meeting yesterday with our new financial bookkeeper person. She resigned on the spot. I just asked her to….” Then a bus came by I couldn’t hear the rest. Dying to know.

How much of your time on X do you spend purely in your following stream? And do you turn off “reposts” for those bigger accounts that retweet all of their own content? Any tips for creating your chronological feed?

Gotta start somewhere. Why not the pub. The London Hotel, Paddington, NSW. The intentional act of building a new behavior, creating a new habit, a new craft. The art of drawing with a felt tip pen. I was using pencil, but I commit more if I can’t erase. Cafe closed so I

Inspired by @Pixel0Symphony to get into to a little bit of doodling on graph paper.

Being human is cool. Just that. Being human. Acting human. Fucking up. Having a shit car. Having a nice poster. Caring for a pot plant. Asking someone’s name. Again. Writing a letter. Yawning. Yearning. Smiling. Frowning. Dreaming. I see you. Being human. That quizzical look

Just the expanding hexagons

Statistically anomalous, or a growing trend? I was sitting on the 333 bus to Bondi this afternoon, reading a book. So two with the person in front of me, the person behind me, and the two people to the left of me Felt like a little bus book club