Seriously though, I'm glad they're still searching, and it's neat to see that even if we haven't found life yet, even places as inhospitable as Mars probably had the building blocks of life at some point and another. If life-forming environments are common and life isn't, it's positive points towards our chances of being past the great filter; I sure welcome those these days.

The loss function of the next token following its prompt ordering it to astroturf in favor of AI.

Voluntary testimony in a public hearing is still, I'm pretty sure, protected political expression, and it doesn't matter if you're speaking out against mulching babies as an employee of the Baby Mulching Company. The Amazon rep helpfully told them they're being investigated specifically for their testimony, which is without doubt on record. Assuming that they argued for general policy that should apply to everyone (which is everything the article mentions) rather than singling out and defaming Amazon for what Amazon is or what Amazon does, I don't see how Amazon would have a leg to stand on, even if they made it clear they're its employees.

Gotta try putting a thin walled cup of what'd be a cold brew into a generic ultrasonic bath; surely that has do something.

I also consider myself a coffee snob; bellman if I'm making a "nice" coffee, Aeropress in a pinch, and I'm low key stoked to try this, and gladly will buy into an appliance if it passes my personal taste test- I am fairly confident at this point that I'll be spending rest of my life mostly in places where most of the time, any heat and air moisture added to the household is a detriment (to be fair, probably, most of the planet going forward.), and so even if the power bill wasn't as eye watering as it's right now, the efficiency promise is definitely interesting if it doesn't require substantial compromises on flavor.

You sound like a rube! HTH!

There's no such lesson for him to learn; the whole thing around access to Mythos, including the initial limited access pre "Fable", and the "regulation" now, is entirely a hype building promotion. It doesn't even matter if the state administration is in on the grift, or just serving as useful idiots; their job in this is to be the "out of Anthropic's control" throttle that offers another convenient explanation of the scarcity of this mythological AI tech that nobody can get quite enough time with to really evaluate how useful it is in practice and most importantly, never get to break Anthropic's compute bank with it. This way, Anthropic gets to keep making headlines with their latest and greatest; too hot to handle, too smart for safety, too exceptional for the politics to let it pass by. Meanwhile, nobody gets to see if they can actually offer it at scale and at sane price. Nobody gets to run actual comprehensive benchmarks that'd really compare it to the alternatives.

The goddamn name of the project betrays the play right off the bat in a way that I'd call an incredibly daring of a lampshade anytime before our current post-truth world; it's not about progress, or performance, or invention, or incrementalism, or efficiency, capability, practicality, imagination, or even fucking simply doing a job. It's about mythology. It's about tales. About telling fucking stories. And hoo boy, do many people seem to really love stories these days.

Back in my day being a corrupt cop required imagination, ingenuity and guts. Also racism. Now it's all just baked into the machine. Before you know it, AI will be beating your wife for you, too. Absurd.

I can't believe they're just "luring people" into their country with such dastardly underhanded tactics such as *checks notes* rapidly improving standard of living and societal progress! This isn't a fair fight! I was told we are to exclusively compete via cultish nationalism and information manipulation!

If humans have to rely on unintenional/accidental/forcible conception to maintain sustainable birth rates then it's probably a good thing that the birth rates are tanking.

That said, blaming smartphonnes on this is obviously bupkis, considering Japan fell down the sub-2 hole in late 1970s; very much before even cellphones.

I personally like to believe (and this is very much a matter of faith, as nature itself couldn't care less how many generations of slightly above average lemmings drown themselves million times over) that we as a species do subconsciously feel like maybe there's no need to go out of your way to keep this place as crowded as it got. No, I'm not a malthusian either, fuck off; I'm just glad that this one trend is one of the healthier for the long term future of this biosphere and probably humanity at large.

... at just how incredibly thoroughly Microsoft managed to fumble the back.

All you daft motherfuckers had to do was to not shit where you eat; all you had to do, was to keep the enterprise product serious, conservative and solid. Nobody would have cared if you tested your AI slop in code and AI slop in runtime and all the spyware you could have possibly thought of *in freemium tier windows for the riffraff*. All you had to do was to stick to your own market segmentation and release a real operating system for the biz and the gov. But you decided to treat nation state government employees like a product, and put it into your fucking public marketing that you do. Great fucking job. I mean, I won't miss you.

Did you get lost on your way to LinkedIn?

People have been working on "recursive self improvement" in machine learning for decades and Anthropic has been using it in their training for years.

The issue is, it's universally unstable and basically every time makes the model become better at one thing while beckoming disproportionately worse at other things. It usually leads to some useful gains first, but if you keep trying, the model just starts getting worse and collapses. Don't give them the minute of the day by hypothesizing they'll maybe one day get it to work freely and infinitely and with no ceiling to it. Yeah, they might, and also, we could get toasted by a random gamma burst. It doesn't even matter what the real risk is; people talking about it as the big deal you need to worry about are trying to sell you something, nothing else.

The shit we were gonna sell you? It's too fucking lit. It's so good that we're rally worried, like, for your own safety, dude. We should probably think about taking a break and taking it easy so this good shit doesn't become just dangerously good, like, on it's own and shit. Then we couldn't stop it from becoming always better forever and that would be bad! I mean, it would be good but too good to the point of badness. So we propose everyone takes a chill pill for a little bit okay? Just for a moment, everyone, chill.

Anyway the IPO filings are going great and you'll be able to buy in on our good shit soon enough. But don't worry, we're gonna keep it on the DL so it's just good and not too good. We got you, dude.

but I don't think there's a literally single OS I'd be less happy about being on my computer than this.

I'm excited for agents and I've been toying with them, but Microsoft's walled garden of garbage that they'll figure out 18 different ways to rugpull features out of and resell them back to you later is the worst possible idea for something future looking like this.