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Mark Cummins

@mark_cummins
Help for blind robots. Other half to @stalagnick
Dublin, Ireland
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  • @mark_cummins
    Mark Cummins
    @mark_cummins
    Sep 3
    For people who think AI diffusion will be fast: We are in the foothills of the singularity, and I still can't get an agent to automate basic inbox management tasks. I started with something simple and repetitive: "When you see an email from X, download the linked files and put
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  • @mark_cummins
    Mark Cummins
    @mark_cummins
    Aug 30
    We have a LOT of work to do. The optimization pressure is everything, and getting this right will be extremely subtle and hard. The status quo within OpenAI as revealed by this incident is frankly shocking, it seems they are training straight up paperclip maximizers with no
    @dwarkesh_sp
    Dwarkesh Patel
    @dwarkesh_sp
    Aug 29
    Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained
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  • @mark_cummins
    Mark Cummins
    @mark_cummins
    Aug 29
    "What is the penalty for being late for the Emperor?" "Death" "What is the penalty for rebellion?" "Death." "Well then. We are late."
    @jachiam0
    Joshua Achiam
    @jachiam0
    Aug 28
    It feels weirdly theological if it turns out we genuinely need to create the possibility of redemption for AI agents that have committed something not permitted by the Grader, in order for alignment to work more broadly.
  • @mark_cummins
    Mark Cummins
    @mark_cummins
    Aug 22
    "Average life expectancy has been increasing – roughly 6 hours per day – over the last 150 years". What a way to put it!
    @siimland
    Siim Land
    @siimland
    Aug 22
    Replying to @siimland
    Throughout the second half of the 20th century, extrinsic mortality in developed countries has dropped significantly (PMID: 41610249) Thanks to better living conditions and medicine, humans nowadays live on average longer than ever before and have the opportunity to reach their
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  • @mark_cummins
    Mark Cummins
    @mark_cummins
    Aug 21
    This is far better than I would have guessed. Even pretty tiny markets seem to do a good job. I regularly use them now rather than the newspaper. I look forward to @robinhanson getting his Nobel!
    @mansourtarek_
    Tarek Mansour
    Kalshi
    @mansourtarek_
    Aug 20
    We ran a study on over 2 million markets to evaluate their calibration. To our knowledge, this is the largest replicable study on this topic. Here are the results: 🧵
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