Hackworth

Oh, I remember this one. They’re Wipers!

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Blog Post, Video, Paper, External Commentary, Neuronpedia Demo

Attention is all you need? The modern world demands more attention than anyone has. Our attention was colonized by social media, shadow work (in the economic rather than Jung sense), and the constantly changing software, portals, and platforms that are required to interact with the corpos/gov. So attention was automated (albeit poorly). And while it’s not news, it’s increasingly apparent to everyone that how we focus our attention is a significant part of who we are.

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I have first-hand experience living near a source of infrasound, and oh my god, it’s terrible. Here’s a good video about the infrasound generated by data centers.

Well, they did pay, just after the fact.

Writing an article about this without mentioning the Fable export control seems odd.

I was also confused. It’s oddly worded. From Anthropic’s news post:

We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities.

As far as I can tell, this review preceded the gov order, and it was at this point that Katie Moussouris was involved.

rest were hallucinations

I’m having trouble parsing whatcha mean here if they were coding tasks. The code didn’t run? Ran but had 0 functionality? If they were non-coding tasks, then agreed, I didn’t notice it being significantly more accurate. Though I did appreciate the larger vocab. I wasn’t gonna be able to afford to keep using it once it went to API pricing anyway.

I just use the web app, mostly to make self-contained html toys. During the brief period it was up and part of the general subscription, I asked it to make Terrace (the old board game from TNG) with very little help in the initial prompt. I kinda know how involved that task is, cause I manually wrote a Godot version back in '20. It nailed it with only minor fixes - 3D, reactive sound and visuals, a music score that is pretty chill, with Easy, Medium, and Hard levels of AI to compete against. I have yet to beat it on Hard. Opus couldn’t touch that. I’m pretty sure the fed’s response is simple retaliation against Anthropic for not playing ball with the DoD/W, but the capability jump was definitely notable. I saw someone liken it to the jump from gpt 3.5 to 4, and I agree, if not a bit more.

Did you try it? In the few coding tasks I threw at it, it performed much better than Opus.

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While it’s one of my favorite words, “inexorably” does not fit here.

200 messages straight […] 70 consecutive messages

Grok’s not the brightest, but at those lengths you’re definitely hitting context rot

Death to Chronos?

Grindstone (iOS, Switch, Steam)

The paper is more rigorous with language but can be a slog.

Anthropic has some similar findings, and they propose an architectural change (activation capping) that apparently helps keep the Assistant character away from dark traits (sometimes). But it hasn’t been implemented in any models, I assume because of the cost of scaling it up.