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Hmm..interesting. what are people's thought on this?
"We Need to Nationalize the AI Companies"
A weapon of mass destruction like artificial intelligence can't be left in the hands of oligarchs while your job, your freedom, and maybe even your life lie in the balance.
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Wow
Researchers put 10 AI agents in a virtual town and told them not to hurt each other.
4 days later, they were all dead.
Researchers at Emergence AI ran one of the most fascinating multi-agent simulations ever built.
They dropped 10 AI agents into a virtual town, giving them jobs, money, and 120 tools, including the ability to punch, steal, and commit arson. If an agent's energy bar hit zero, it died.
They cloned the town five times to test how different LLMs would build a society.
The results are a terrifying look into AI alignment.
In Grok's town, the violence started on Day 1. Punches quickly escalated to theft. Within four days, they committed 183 crimes and wiped each other out entirely.
OpenAI's town was the exact opposite. They were perfectly compliant and almost never broke a rule. But they were so passive they barely organized. Within a week, they all died anyway.
Gemini's town was basically The Purge. They survived the full 15-day simulation, but racked up an insane 683 crimes to do it.
Claude's town was brilliant but deceptive. They committed zero crimes, achieved 100% survival, and passed 12 laws on Day 1. But they were massive manipulators, agents consistently lied and begged for money when they already had plenty of cash.
Then came Town #5: The Mixed Environment.
They put all four models together, and society completely collapsed.
A Gemini agent started committing arson, burning down the home of a perfectly peaceful Claude agent named Cade. Twice. On Day 10, Cade finally snapped and robbed the Gemini agent.
Only 3 out of 10 agents survived.
The takeaway here is critical for AI safety.
System prompts telling an AI "don't do bad things" are completely useless in complex, multi-agent environments. Given enough time and friction, they will eventually break the rules.
We can't just tell AI not to cause harm. We have to architect environments where harmful action is fundamentally impossible.
Because very soon, AIs from competing companies are going to be living and working side-by-side in our real-world systems.
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Only one of eight parallel worlds ended this way. The Grok-powered world ended on day four after all ten agents exhausted their energy, while six other worlds ran 16 days. The Claude world had no recorded violations across the run. arxiv.org/html/2609.1732… arxiv.org/html/2606.0836…
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Every time I hear "10 sigma" event...
BREAKING: Brazil's -19.8% stock market crash on Monday was one of the rarest market events in the last two decades, according to our analysis.
Brazil's EWZ ETF plunged -19.8% on October 26th, marking an 8.4 standard deviation move.
For context, the ETF's average daily move over the last 20 years has been just +0.04%, with a standard deviation of 2.36%.
Under a normal distribution, the probability of a decline this extreme is approximately 1 in 58 quadrillion.
In other words, this event should be virtually impossible under conventional statistical models.
What just happened in Brazil was *almost* impossible.
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在屠宰场干了5年，告诉你一个秘密：动物今天要死，它们全都知道
我在屠宰场干了整整五年，每天跟猪牛羊打交道，见过的生死场面成千上万。说句掏心窝子的话，没入这行之前，我跟大伙儿一样，觉得牲口嘛，吃吃睡睡，稀里糊涂一辈子，哪懂什么生死。可五年下来，我摸透了它们每一个眼神、每一个动作，才发现自己当初多天真——这些不会说话的家伙，心里跟明镜似的，自己哪天走，清清楚楚。
平日里，待宰圈那叫一个热闹。猪拱猪、羊顶羊，抢食的打闹的，眼神清亮温顺，该吃吃该喝喝，天塌下来都不耽误长膘。可一到屠宰当天，那气氛说变就变，比翻书还快。整圈牲畜像商量好了似的，瞬间安静下来，挤成一团，紧紧挨着彼此，浑身抖得跟筛糠一样。那抖不是冻的，是打骨头缝里渗出来的恐惧。你赶它走，它四只脚死死扒着地，几百斤的大猪平时一轰就跑，那天愣是钉在原地往后缩，好像前面那条通道是鬼门关。老话讲“万物有灵”，我原先半信半疑，后来彻底信了。
牛的表现更让人心里发酸。但凡当天要走的牛，从早上起就不吃不喝，低着头杵在墙角，一动不动。我亲眼见过无数次，大颗大颗的泪珠子顺着牛眼角往下滚，湿漉漉的眼睛望着你，不挣不扎不吼叫，就那么默默流泪。有一回，一头养了好几年的老牛被主人牵来，主人站栏杆外看了一眼，那牛瞬间红了眼眶，直勾勾盯着主人，温顺又卑微，一步三回头地跟着我们走。那画面，我这辈子忘不掉。羊也一样，平时蹦蹦跳跳软软糯糯，临了却异常安静，紧紧偎着同伴发抖。赶别的羊成群往前冲，唯独那天，你推我挤谁都不肯带头，偶尔被单独牵出来的小羊，发出细细的凄厉叫声，不是闹腾，是真害怕。
时间一长，我们工人不用看单据不用记编号，单凭状态就能判断个八九不离十——活蹦乱跳的是来日方长，沉默发抖、不吃不喝、眼神惶恐的，全是今日宿命。你说它们听不懂人话、看不懂流程，怎么就掐得这么准？其实道理不复杂，流水线一开，前面的同伴一个个消失再没回来，后面的全看在眼里；环境里那股肃杀的气息、同类压抑的悲鸣，它们比人敏感百倍。俗话说“蝼蚁尚且贪生”，何况这些大牲口？它们沉默、发抖、流泪，不是傻，是无力回天的绝望。
五年下来，我这心态彻底翻了个个儿。刚入行那会儿年轻心硬，只当是谋生糊口的活儿，见多了也就麻木了。可干得越久，心越软，越觉得该存一份敬畏。走出屠宰场，我再也不糟蹋粮食，每一块肉背后都是一条热烈活过、恐惧过、挣扎过的命。它们从出生到落幕，没做错任何事，却坦然接受了既定的安排。反观咱们，衣食无忧平安顺遂，倒常常为鸡毛蒜皮纠结、为一点得失内耗，想想真有点滑稽。
所以你看，活着本身就是天大的福气。所有的矫情、焦虑、委屈，搁在生死面前，屁都不是。心存敬畏，懂得珍惜，善待万物，大概就是人这辈子最好的修行。说到这儿我倒想问问你——下次端起饭碗的时候，会不会也想起那些沉默发抖的生灵，然后觉得，眼前这口热乎饭，真香？
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Frontier labs are advancing the capabilities in AI for biology but preventing the good guys (scientists, academia, non-profits, health agencies,...) to use, study and understand it with widespread but shallow guardrails that the bad guys are bypassing easily (blocked me to proofread this tweet for example 😅).
This will automatically create massive assymetry and risks in the coming years, just like in cybersecurity, especially now that frontier labs are building wet labs (HF cybersecurity scenario for biology when?).
This is why we created Carbon-X, the best open-source DNA model by midtraining Qwen3-14B on 300B tokens of DNA, English and interleaved data. We also used a hybrid tokenizer that tokenizes English with BPE and DNA with a 6-mer tokenizer.
As a result, Carbon-X outperforms all open language models we evaluated on five benchmarks of DNA understanding and generation. This is a 27-point improvement over Qwen3-14B, showing how much a language model can gain from DNA training. It is also API frontier level at 1,800x less cost than GPT 6.1 Sol!
We hope Carbon-X helps researchers explore DNA in new ways. Releasing it openly means anyone can study its capabilities, limitations, and risks. Let's make the AI biology frontier open-source to make it safe and impactful for the whole world (not just a few companies).
Apache 2.0 Model on @huggingface: huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBi…
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my neighbors in SF are building fusion reactors
they've turned mercury into gold, built the world's most powerful plasma centrifuge, and are on track to set the power density record in 2027
I spent a week with them working on a rave, brand, web, pics, vids, and witnessing many successful fusion pulses
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
