Capital Offences
Dan WaterfieldIntermittent essays on what I've been reading and thinking about.
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The Senior Engineer in the Machine
My last post examined the Claude soul document, arguing for the political role of Claude in maintaining the conditions by which alignment research might continue at Anthropic. What I didn’t touch on as much as I’d hoped was the role of the...
Anthropic's Soul Document
Richard Weiss recently managed to tease out part of Anthropic’s ‘soul document’. This guideline, confirmed by Anthropic’s philosopher Amanda Askell, sets out Claude’s personality. It was introduced by the company during training, so rather...
A kind of relaunch
Capital offences is finally going to become more regular. This is partly thanks to the fact I’ve tapered down my citalopram (nothing quite like anxiety to beat the ssri apathy and boost productivity) and partly to support the crippling loss...
Living / Building
On Monday and Tuesday Nyika and I drove down from Auckland down to Wellington so I could attend the Living/Building conference and Nyika could use the University archives.
We broke the journey in Rotorua, a small-ish city on the edge of a...
Maybe if we just don't talk about the climate it'll go away.
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This is a sort-of edited version of an essay of which I’ve written a dozen versions over the last year. I wish this were an exaggeration. This version best encapsulates something which I was reaching at but never quite attained: the...
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SWE / PhD 18c British History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 in \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff. I write abut the intersection of the humanities and artificial intelligence.
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