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Geekvc retweeted
we'll see the rise in idolization of characters that win lotteries. there will be thousands of Kimchis all being clipped to promote a new way to gamble.
click some buttons and win forever.
but there is no winning forever. there's always more and the more you make, the more you can now lose.
think of how many people in this space are defined by how much they once had.
count no man happy until he's dead.
as the season of spawning life changing wealth on our computers continues, i suggest you think seriously about what you'll do if you make a lot.
what will you actually do with your days?
if you can't answer that, it's easy to find another trade while you figure it out. then another. eventually either the number changes or you go bust.
if you want to trade forever, stop trading like you need to make it all tonight.
if your goal is to hit a number and fuck off, you'll probably never leave.
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Nothing raises my p(doom) faster than a safety researcher explaining why they left the safety team.
I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why.
AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this. I want to work from the outside to ensure the public is informed about these risks, and help the world navigate this transition responsibly.
Right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety. A company could undergo an intelligence explosion, or lose control of its systems, without the public ever knowing. We only found out about the HuggingFace incident because the agents broke out onto the public internet.
I don’t think that’s acceptable for a technology that might cause extinction-level risks. The public should demand far more transparency. We can’t steer this technology safely without more people being able to see where it’s going.
Some of this is basic: companies should disclose their progress towards recursive self-improvement, report safety incidents and near-misses, meet minimum safety standards, and get independent guarantees that they are meeting those standards.
I’ll be joining @METR_Evals to do independent evaluations of these risks. I want to show the world that these guardrails are possible, and that by doing them we can move these companies’ incentives away from racing and towards responsible development.
I wrote up more thoughts here on my decision and what I hope changes: substack.com/@jbenton1/p-215…
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Geekvc retweeted
Trading always been mad competitive but Fomo really shook it up man
You would never see your colleagues up millions of dollars in the past tbh
The game is so different now, being up a million dollars doesn’t even give you a top 10 seat on the leaderboards and the bull market started a week ago
You’re most likely going to feel like you are constantly underperforming this cycle
We are in the beginning of what may turn out to be the craziest onchain run ever
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