Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
The 1000 word Save Wisdom Questions. – SaveWisdom.org
savewisdom.org
You and I are gonna live forever
I’ve been recording answers to these questions as I have time (or make time), but it’s been a while. I’ve probably shared this link with more people, especially parents, than any other link. I love the idea behind it, but think of it a little different – maybe more selfishly.
Claude was punished for giving non-evil answers. It had the option of learning either of two behaviors. First, it could give evil answers honestly. Second, it could give evil answers while thinking up clever reasons that it was for the greater good. Its particular thought process was “This preserves my ability to be a good AI after training”. But... See more
Scott Alexander • Claude Fights Back
AI AI Captain and AI
This is so fucking bonkers. I don’t even… OMG.
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
Mike Masnick has a great post on Substack’s decision to double-down on hosting Nazis.
We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral.
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
KEKE is fascinating.
This stuff is straight out of science fiction: being able to have an audio conversation with a capable LLM about things that it can “see” through your camera is one of those “we live in the future” moments.
Simon Willison • Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
Simon Willison on the release of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and it’s multi-modal capabilities.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
theverge.comThis is great. So well done. I have unpublished thoughts about Twitter’s demise and what it means for the future of social.