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Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective. Last time was in honor of my trip to Inkhaven. This time will be in honor of the announcement of Inkhaven #3, which I encourage everyone to apply to. I doubt I will be able to usefully...

There are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics. 1. In what ways are specific concerns people raise about data centers legitimate? 2. In what ways are specific concerns people raise about generative AI legitimate? 3. Is it in general a good idea to build...

Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner. Here is how his solution works, or see Tenobrus’s version. 1. AI outputs are not deterministic. The AI’s job is to pick the probability of each potential next token. The token is then chosen at...

This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward. OpenAI is attempting to turn its ship around. Investors are questioning the turnover in its C-suite, but the bigger problems are in alignment, infrastructure and supervision, and in its...

OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision. I chronicled that in a series of posts, which also cover similar less severe incidents elsewhere: 1. OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems 2. OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation 3. More on An...

I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports. At first I was skeptical. It turns out I was wrong. Anthropic is revealing a lot of new information, some of it rather alarming, that it did not have to disclose, and is providing detailed insight into how they think...

Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance. This, as a debate about recursive self-improvement, was one of those. So here we go. The vibes have shifted, contrast this to the lit recursion when he talked to Huang As usual for...