When you look at METR's web site and review the credentials of its staff, you find that almost none of them has any sort of academic research background. No doctorates as far as I can tell, and lots of rationalist junk affiliations.
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I like his new framing of the accelerationists and transhumanists as pro-extinctionists.
Elon makes Grok developers install intrusive surveillance software on their laptops. They're being told to enable screen captures and URL tracking.
HN commenters are slobbering all over the new Grok. Virtually every commenter bringing up Grok's recent full-tilt Nazism gets flagged into oblivion.
Not gonna lie, it's fun reading those reddit posts from vibe coders, squealing like stuck pigs because their heavily subsidized code extruder stopped working.
What I don't understand is how these people didn't think they would be caught, with potentially career-ending consequences? What is the series of steps that leads someone to do this, and how stupid do you need to be?
What makes this worse than the financial crisis of 2008 is that you can't live in a GPU once the crash happens.
Apparently the NYT hit-piece's author, Benjamin Ryan, is a subscriber to Jordan Lasker's (Cremieux's) substack.
When this was first posted I too was curious about the book series. It appears that nearly every book in the series is authored by academics affiliated with Indian universities. Modi's government has promoted and invested heavily in AI.
Sex pest billionaire Travis Kalanick says AI is great for more than just vibe coding. It's also great for vibe physics.