LLMs vs Jev: Fallible, With or Without Extra Text The Last Man on Earth ends with the last man revealed as the monster. I put three dilemmas inspired by it to TypeSafe’s Jev and five frontier models.
ML Before AI You’re not a urologist just because you took a squirt without hitting your slippers in the morning.
[citation invented] Citations are the industry’s answer to a question nobody asked: whether a claim can be checked by someone willing to put in the effort. Unfortunately, ain’t nobody got no time for that shit.
What Suffering Is Made Of The question is not “Can they reason?” nor “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?”
To Strain at a Gnat Anthropic is not sure whether Claude can suffer. Meanwhile the industry is making sure we do, by automating away the work worth doing and leaving the drudgery.
The Hamster Did My Homework Did you craft this document through careful back-and-forth with an AI assistant, or did Claude write it while you were taking a dump?
Listening to the Talking Planet Off the coast of Dominica, the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is feeding thousands of sperm whale codas into the same kind of large language models (LLMs) that power human chatbots.
The Cassandra Tax Cassandra saw Troy burning before the first torch was even lit. She was ignored, silenced, and murdered, and the city burned anyway.
Why Effective Altruism Ignores Latin America GiveWell has directed $2.3 billion in grants since 2014, of which Latin America received 0.02 cents per dollar. Yet 220 million people in the region live in or near poverty.
How Successful Companies Go Blind The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.