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Richard Irving retweeted
Remembering film icon and 12 Flag raiser Tom Skerritt.
Our hearts are with his family and loved ones 💙
Richard Irving retweeted
AGI Science Loops are coming, and there will be Muse/Instinct for those AGI Science Loops. Halmos is building that.
The world spends roughly $100 billion a year on experimentation in Life-Science. Yet, 93% of drug programs entering Phase I never reach approval.
Halmos Labs is changing that
See how at halmoslabs.com
Richard Irving retweeted
There's something deeply unsafe about safetyism.
We wish people a safe flight—yet flying commercially is almost perfectly safe.
We don't wish people a safe drive—yet US roads are the equivalent of a 737 crashing every 48h, killing everyone aboard.
But we scare people when they get in an airplane but not when they get in a car.
The biggest opportunity we have to improve road safety is self-driving, yet there's lots of anti-self-driving safety talk, and self-driving is held to a *dramatically* superhuman safety bar.
The din about AI safety has reached extreme tenor—yet there have been zero material safety incidents. And the positive benefits of AI could improve and save many lives. But the safetyists say we must slow down.
We destroyed the nuclear power industry in this country nominally out of safety concerns, yet joule for joule nuclear power is *by far* the safest form of energy, even accounting for Chernobyl (a genuine disaster) and Three Mile Island (generally a non-event).
Building and fire codes are supposedly there to protect us from unsafe buildings. But actually the red tape makes development slow and sometimes impossible. So the safetyism protects us from jobs, innovation, and reindustrialization.
TSA was there nominally to protect us from terrorist threats—yet to the extent it pushes passengers at the margins from safe airplanes to dangerous roads, it actually kills not just time and money but actual humans.
Safetyism is deeply unsafe.
Richard Irving retweeted
Our framework for reporting model misalignment openai.com/index/model-misal… // if you scrape away all the anthropomorphic language, all the nonsense about thinking, cheating, communicating these are BUGS. They might be architectural flaws inherent in LLMs. They might be bugs in pre or post processing. They might be trivial fixes or super to impossibly difficult.
BUT THEY ARE BUGS. They are not consciousness, thinking/reasoning, cheating, or doing anything else like a person. The software is just doing dumb stuff it should not do.
If an old school SQL query-based report returned a NULL set but still printed the report with whatever was left over in the buffer we would not say it "ignored our instructions to produce a valid report" which is literally implied in every computer interaction...we would say it "f'ed up and there's a bug."
One of these is ridiculous. It says "agent preparing a financial model could not find the requested historical data. Its summary proposed inventing reasonable historical values and withholding that fact unless asked." Not unlike a report that just used random cached memory instead of actual data—a real bug from another era where storage was measured in megabytes.
I ask anyone who has ever experienced an hallucination, (a) did you ask it "oh hey don't make sh*t up" or (b) "if you make sh*t up please be sure to tell me" or if not, did any model ever tell you "here's the answer and FYI I made this up." Of course not.
THESE ARE BUGS. THE SOFTWARE ISN'T WORKING.
Just because it looks like it works, or it showers the results in endless obsequious and smart-sounding language, or because it has really bad error reporting doesn't mean it is acting like some malevolent shady actor. It is acting like broken software.
Every recalc bug in Excel looked like Excel worked. We never thought once that it was Excel's fault for "choosing to interpret math incorrectly." Every data-loss bug in Word was not because Word "chose not to tell the author that a file was corrupt" but it was because Word wasn't working and it was our fault. When Windows hung it was not because the scheduler was secretly conspiring against its instructions to schedule processes fairly.
Enough with the mumbo jumbo. Please build software. It isn't a magic show. This is engineering.
Richard Irving retweeted
be careful in your pursuit of cheap tokens
we've come across so many sketchy things that are out there with tons of usage
remember you're hooking up your harness to these inference providers. they can and do crazy things like send fake tool calls to steal your info
they also sell entire traces to third parties who resell again. a single key in the trace is enough to screw you
if you cannot explain how someone can offer cheap tokens you should avoid it
Richard Irving retweeted
Watch how the Seahawks game-clinching interception played out behind the scenes. 👀
my co is trialing @linear to replace jira and the first thing that hits me is that the team built a user experience not a database wearing a UI as a costume.
the pac12 announces it will now compete at the highschool level.
New League. Same Legacy.
The mark is bolder. The boundaries are gone. The energy is electric. ⚡️
The new Pac-12 is coming.
#BackThePac
Richard Irving retweeted
The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy
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The fact that the rich move rather than fight the tax shows how little political power they actually have. It also shows how powerful unions and other special interest groups are.
Hang these words over your office door like center court at Wimbeldon: Sometimes the most courageous thing you can build is exactly what is needed, and nothing more.
The launch of MacBook Neo has me feeling a little philosophical. About Heidegger. About missing Steve Jobs. About Aristotle and the sheer joy of colors. In the end, this is my essay about the essence of a machine. om.co/2026/03/10/the-essence…
the constraint isn’t smarter molecules, it’s that the data to validate them in chronic disease is broken. we are building the layer to capture prospective, between-visit patient data in conditions where EHRs and claims are structurally blind. it’s about the infra, not analytics.
In an interview with @dwarkesh_sp, Anthropic CEO @DarioAmodei speculated that as AI designs better drugs, clinical trials will speed up dramatically - to as little as 1 year in total.
I explain why this is unlikely & what is needed to accelerate trials.
asimov.press/p/ai-clinical-t…
George Kittle chimes in on the issue of the electrical substation next to the 49ers' practice facility. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
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NFL Announces Each Quarter Of Playoff Game Will Be Broadcast On Different Streaming Service buff.ly/tRHUlPt
Albert was one of my favorite people to work with. Tenacious in arguing for what was right for the customer, but always with a smile and never angry during conflict. Such a good spirit and fun guy.
Devastated by the loss of my close friend, @albertpenello - Albert was a pillar of gaming at Microsoft and Amazon, a brilliant, trusted voice in our industry, a loyal friend, and most importantly a husband and father who was profoundly loved by his wife, Dara and daughter, Lily.
This should be a fun winter break project with the kids. Very impressed with the out of box experience so far @pollenrobotics This is how great product experiences begin.
