Only way to see this soon-ish in Sweden is through Stockholm Film Festival in November. Sold out of course. We will have ASI before I can understand what on earth everyone’s talking about.
I was struck by lightning. You Can See Everything quite literally changed my life. It elevates the medium of documentary filmmaking to a level cinema has never reached before. The film operates like a magic trick combined with a quantum mechanics experiment, such as Schrödinger's time. It will make you question your sanity. It explores concepts of reality and the simulacrum discussed by philosopher Jean Baudrillard. I'll be heading back to the cinema this weekend to experience it again. This is a historic achievement by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Go in blind and watch it with a packed audience.
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As Karl Popper wrote: "If there is such a thing as growing human knowledge, then we cannot anticipate today what we shall know only tomorrow."
And Popper also reminded us: "Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world."
And Popper also reminded us: "Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world."
when nick told me that he had some interp breakthroughs, he was uh, underselling it. i think this may be remembered as a major moment in scientific history. news so good even eliezer will have to lower his pdoom. we can start making alignment into a 'normal science'
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Look, Eliezer said "maaaybe possible". That's the most optimistic he's been for decades.
@tszzl If you think there is any possible level of interpretability that makes "align ASI" be "normal science" rather than "maaaybe possible" then you do not understand what ASI is or don't believe in it.
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when nick told me that he had some interp breakthroughs, he was uh, underselling it. i think this may be remembered as a major moment in scientific history. news so good even eliezer will have to lower his pdoom. we can start making alignment into a 'normal science'
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
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Goodfire is one of the most important companies in the world right now, doing loads of great work.
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
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As we look to the future, every scientist gets a superintelligent partner, instruments are built on demand, papers become executable, agent ecologies invent and coordinate across labs and institutions. I shared these and other ideas in a recent blog post.
In 2022 we argued that AI could become a new language of science. Four years later AI empowers us to pursue ambitious goals, tackle problems of unprecedented complexity, and extend the boundaries of human creativity, understanding and discovery. x.com/i/article/2110…
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I am going to say something really blunt, intentionally: Aging is my number one enemy. I consider it the most horrible affliction of humanity that has killed billions of people, including my dear father. As such, it’s hard for me to respect anyone who glorifies my worst enemy.
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@davidasinclair launched @JoinLifespan magazine - the media empire covering longevity biotechnology. Open Access but you can also join as founder. When I get 1K likes under this post - I will join as founder - like, share, subscribe!
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Sometimes those of us in the business of discovering and developing drugs forget that other people don’t know how the sausage is made
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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Fitting that GTA VI should arrive on the eve of AI take-off. Humanity reaching its cultural zenith just in time.
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Something to think about the next you hear a skeptic dismissing something as science fiction.
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Reading that headline. Then I'm reading it again. And again. Human cells in vivo, rejuvenated.
Breaking news in the world of longevity and congrats to @AliceParkNY on exclusive reporting. @davidasinclair 's @lifebiosciences early clinical trial succeed. Read the @TIME article and their announcement.
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"Two of three showed improvements in vision". HERE. WE. GO.
Breaking
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