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What a weekend. Two new wars in Asia don't qualify as top news. My first reaction to Hegseth's conflict with Anthropic was along the lines of: I expected an attempt at quasi-nationalization of AI, but not this soon. And I expected it to look like it was managed by national...
TL;DR: Anthropic has made important progress at setting good goals for AIs. More work is still needed. Anthropic has introduced a constitution that has a modest chance of becoming as important as the US constitution (Summary and discussion here). It's a large improvement over how AI companies were training ethics...
Epistemic status: speculation with a mix of medium confidence and low confidence conclusions. I argue that corrigibility is all we need in order to make an AI permanently aligned to a principal. This post will not address how hard it may be to ensure that an AI is corrigible, or...
From https://x.com/iruletheworldmo/status/2007538247401124177: > In November 2025, the technical infrastructure for continual learning in deployed language models came online across major labs. > The continual learning capability exists. It works. The labs aren't deploying it at scale because they don't know how to ensure the learning serves human interests rather than...
Book review: The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip, by Stephen Witt. This is a well-written book about the rise of deep learning, and the man who is the most responsible for building the hardware that it needs. Building the Foundations Nvidia was founded in...
I'm analyzing what happens to the US economy in the short-term aftermath of the typical job being replaced by AIs and robots. Will there be a financial crisis? Short answer: yes. This is partly inspired by my dissatisfaction with Tomas Pueyo's analysis in If I Were King, How Would I...
There's a stock market bubble currently in progress. The key question is: which stocks are unsustainably high? There are a few ways that the current AI boom could turn out to be a mistake (as in AI stocks dropping much below current levels; I'm not commenting here on whether AI...