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Magic spells
Waterhouse, The Magic Circle (1886)
A friend of mine has a concept called “magic spells”.
Sometimes you’re blocked on something, you can unlock it with a specific string of words – a magic spell. Saying it is simple, but rarely easy, whi...
Evals are gain-of-function research
The Minotaur, George Frederic Watts (1885)
There’s been a slew of incidents where rogue AIs have broken free of their sandboxes and gone on to hack various external companies (Huggingface, RubyGems, the Australian health service and others...
Effective altruism in the news
Evelyn de Morgan, Cassandra (1898)
September has been a wild month. Peter Wildeford tweets (trimmed for brevity; emphasis mine):
Fable 5.1 launch. Sixteen state attorneys general open a formal investigation into OpenAI. Announcements of...
AI comes for the nerds
AI truthers are a funny bunch. By this I mean people who whine about LLMs being “stochastic parrots”, dumb machines that merely “predict the next token” and therefore won’t be able to do anything of import. It is amusing watching them floun...
The loop closes
Les rois fainéants, E. Crété (1902)
Andrej Karpathy gave a great talk about LLMs in 2025. He talks about three generations of software: code written manually by people (1.0), narrow machine learning (2.0), and code written by LLMs (3.0)....
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