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Patrick McKenzie

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Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.

Chicago, IL

Joined February 2009

Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
22h
1) Probably a useful engineering practice if you have AI doing anything important. 2) I *strongly* endorse most companies having a similar Batphone available to all employees.
swisscheese
@swisscheese4299
Aug 8
Replying to @TheZvi
I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time,
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Aug 6
The first “holy %{*#^” is at about 4:20, assuming one didn’t already spend it on the autonomously organizing agent swarm. Strongly recommend watching if you’re interested in security, AI trajectories, or even science fiction, because this is already above genre median in wowza.
Greg Brockman
@gdb
Aug 6
Black Hat talk from the team, with a detailed timeline of and takeaways from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident: youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyM…
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Aug 6
Complex Systems this week is with the CEO and lead scientist of AeroLamp, about the science behind UVC (germicidal light), what remains to be solved to unblock adoption, and what sort of curves we can expect for impact, deployment, and cost.
The economics of putting germicidal light in every room, with Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky of...
From complexsystemspodcast.com
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Aug 6
There are many forms of security through obscurity, technical and otherwise, and many of them are going to come under severe pressure once the adversary has the equivalent of 10k research analysts doing intake and prioritization.
roon
@tszzl
Aug 6
needless to say but if you have any API keys, eth wallet keys, user credentials, etc hanging out on the open internet in pastebins, GitHubs, etc now is the time to take it down before the tireless eagle eyes of a million models come looking
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Aug 5
A bit unclear to me which organization specifically made it happen, but a beautiful thing, reported by Ruriko and the kids coming home from Narita: They have pilots giving flight simulator lessons to kids traveling.