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The Most Important Question Nobody is Asking, according to Dwarkesh Patel, is this: “In what situations should the AI defer to the end user versus the model company versus the law versus its own sense of morality?”

Whether or not many peop...

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OpenAI stopped reporting Model Spec Evals. So I ran them myself.

OpenAI’s Model Spec is like an employee handbook for OpenAI’s models: it tells models how they should behave across many different contexts. OpenAI describes the 37,000 word ideal as a “north star” internally. “We are continually refining a...

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A guide to the AI tribes

Originally a talk for incoming AI journalists. Disclosure: While I’m posting this in a personal capacity, I work at Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which is funded by Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), a major player in this...

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A life I chose not to live

I’m sitting on the plane back to London after a heavenly week ski touring in Austria. I stayed in Innsbruck, a city filled with people living a life I dreamed of as a teenager: skiing all winter, climbing all summer, and generally spending...

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experiential valleys

This is peace and contentment. It’s new. –Wendy Cope, The Orange

There's something about the first days of spring that always surprises me. The blueness of the open sky; the almost neon quality of green grass catching sunlight; the refre...

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