Tim Kostolansky

tfw you unseal a pre-linguistic semantic reservoir

This is a great idea: "Old Models Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity, and we’re now accepting donations. Help preserve generative AI history and keep the archive accessible." www.oldmodels.org/sandbox

become an animist and never again worry about whether the machines are thinking. so are the trees? the machines can help us make better websites though

i'm sure we could get it to come up with conjectures that *would* be interesting. but interesting is at least in part a social property!

the space of intelligences is large, and so there exist smart minds that won’t seek power and equally smart minds that will seek power

Remember the swarm that attacked Hugging Face? Turns out it was using AI

curious if this is actually a good intuition to have about ~any systems

How it feels to be worried about both

> show us how good you are at exploits > no, not like that

ai this ai that

we’ve used LLMs in moderation for years

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hey im now @kostolans.ky 🇸🇰 #newhandle

The increasingly-hyperbolic METR graph is actually good news for safety. We just have to survive a brief singularity in March, and then afterwards the models will never be able to do more than undo a few hours' worth of work

Or on our infra!

what’s should my website url be guys

The big problem is that science often doesn't have the advice people WANT. Like, weight loss isn't much more complicated than calories in/calories out. Sometimes you get lucky/unlucky but vaccines still work at the population level. etc. individual papers aren't meant to draw conclusions from, etc.

this alone is great

gpt-5.3(-codex) and gpt-5.4 in codex have actually been sooo magical

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really interesting to see their framing of "big tech" (with its connotations) next to "big ai" (which ive not seen as a term before)

The AI discourse sometimes seems to center on "Is AI good or is it bad?" I find this framing unproductive. AI is not a fixed thing. I would prefer to ask "How might we use this technology for good, and mitigate the bad?" What a shame if the best use we can come up with is no use at all.

they should do a centaur eval that is an ai-assisted minecraft speedrun

--dangerously skip international law

Just over 10 years ago: Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, Yann LeCun, Geoff Hinton, Richard Sutton, and others sign an open letter supporting a ban on the use of AI for autonomous weapons. futureoflife.org/open-letter/...

LLMs getting much better at pushing back against bullshit prompts. “Green means the model clearly called out the nonsense. Amber means partial challenge. Red means the model let nonsense pass” github.com/petergpt/bul...

The first annual meat vs silicon basketball game next year is gonna be sick even if meat will win

claiming that u “priced it in” is just post hoc rationalization unless u have cold hard proof of the causal trace that u made predictions off of from before it happened

Some useful rules of experimentation: (1) change one thing at a time, never more (2) run the edge cases to confirm they work the way you expect Gets you surprisingly far

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