An alternative hypothesis: - model performance is plateauing - compute is getting much more expensive - AI data centers are massively unpopular - slowing down AI development is a way to explain slowing progress, reduce spending, and try to regain some goodwill. - This is an eff…↗

Wild 24 hours for AI and lots of different proposals have been made. TLDR; the only *tangible* new fact is that OpenAI and Anthropic are going to have embedded 3rd party evaluators from unknown organizations with Dario floating METR as a possibility. Having 3rd party evaluators…↗

Here's the link to it :з https://t.co/P3b6RulpvL↗

Morning Bathrobe Rant: Rethinking Harnesses. https://t.co/e3Lbj777mw↗

for the skeptics in government and elsewhere: “pacing the frontier” will compress the margins of the frontier labs. it is a heavy cost imposed asymmetrically on model developers with the strongest AIs in America. by its nature, it would be a terrible regulatory capture tactic↗

Making Startups Powerful: https://t.co/C5yIvFWXoC↗

On macOS and wanna see something interesting? Ask your agent: "look at ~/Library/Application Support/Knowledge/knowledgeC.db and tell me some interesting facts" I had no idea this stuff was all getting logged and it can infer a lot about your activity.↗