This is a thing that I’ve been sending around. Friends and family, I’ve been following developments in global financial markets, the manufacturing and construction sectors, and physical suppl…| Free Dissociation
tl;dr I will probably not be purchasing a Gradient All-Weather Window Mounted Heat Pump, and you probably shouldn’t either. I have now had the dubious pleasure of interacting with a customer …| Free Dissociation
Here’s how it went: On August 1, 2023, I pressed ‘publish’ on the first video of the Critical Point War Stories podcast. A couple days later I launched the audio version of the p…| Free Dissociation
This is not my work but some colleagues and friends at Consumer Reports and Include Security have a nice post up about their, uh, security adventures developing an LLM-powered chatbot application. …| Free Dissociation
Hot on the heels of all this writing I’ve been doing about AI safety (previously: why the current approach to AI safety is doomed to failure, what AI safety should be, a worked example)— My friend and South Park Commons colleague Derek Slater passed on this California state senate bill, proposed by my senator Scott … Continue reading "Regulate Systems, Not Models: Reaction to CA Senator Scott Weiner’s SB1047"| Free Dissociation
At least AI safety the way that people talk about it with me on social media and in person. I’ve had this conversation often enough online and in person that I believe that I am not in a mean…| Free Dissociation
To return to the topic of my drunken ramble of a blog post with much less swearing: (It’s not particularly essential reading for this, I wouldn’t bother if you haven’t read it alr…| Free Dissociation
Attention is like a cat—if you’re like, “oh, I will buy a nice camera and spend a lot of time in fancy video editing software making this look nice,” it will spurn you, and also i…| Free Dissociation