Henry🔸

Henry🔸

@henryjosephson.com

I may look like a 15x15, but I'm actually two minis on each other's shoulders in a trench coat. Send me your favorite pdf! let’s elect democrats who know what’s going on https://www.henryjosephson.com

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Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

anthropic probably has a great rationing model rn but just doesn’t have the compute to ship it if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber…

Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

office hours might be the thing i’ll miss most about college. you can just chat with world-leading experts in a field one-on-one (because nobody else ever shows up) and they’ll be thrilled to talk with you (because nobody else ever shows up)!

Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

Gwern on benchmarking creativity (gwern.net/creative-ben...), Holden Karnofsky on tripwires (carnegieendowment.org/research/202..., carnegieendowment.org/research/202...), UK AISI evals lessons (www.aisi.gov.uk/work/early-l...), AI LabWatch (ailabwatch.org/blog/model-e...), }

gwern.netTowards Benchmarking LLM Diversity & CreativityDiscussion of possible tasks to measure LLM capabilities in soft ‘creative’ tasks like brainstorming or editing, to quantify failures in creative writing domains.
Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

I've been worried that AI capabilities evals aren't sufficiently useful to policymakers lately, and that worry has been fueled by some of these excellent pieces: { Anton Lecht, on political economy problems for AI evals (www.antonleicht.me/writing/evals),

antonleicht.meProblems in the AI Eval Political Economy — Anton LeichtEvaluations of new AI models’ capabilities and risks are an important cornerstone of safety-focused AI policy. Currently, their future as part of the policy platform faces peril for four reasons: Enta...
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Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

to american chips, and tier two (everywhere else that isn't arms-embargoed), who get hard-capped around 50k advanced chips, absent other agreements with the US. individual companies can bring more chips to tier 2 countries, if they keep the chips safe and don't put too many in one basket.

Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

The rest of the world gets divided into two camps — tier one (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom) who maintain essentially-unrestricted access...

Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com

welp, i only went to the gym bc i hoped ai returns on robotics would lag far enough behind returns on intelligence that i'd still be useful as a thing-picker-upper in twenty years...

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

It turns out you can give Claude instructions in the forms of lines of poetry from Adrienne Rich or TS Eliot and get very thoughtful analysis of empirical papers as a result.

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NBER
@nber.org

Exploring past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of AI, from David J. Deming, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence H. Summers https://www.nber.org/papers/w33323