@vmfunc

computer hacker, alignment & safety @flockcap, part-time independent journalist opinions my own 💍 @computerphile

 Seattle / San Francisco
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Joined March 2020
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celeste
@vmfuncOct 5
we made sparse autoencoders compete with tiny softmax classifiers and the classifiers won on bits 🐐 a pure discrete code (no coefficients!) beats a top-k SAE at matched bits on SONAR, and an 800-bit hard code recovers 97.6% of gpt-2's loss paper out now! (link in replies)
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Temple She loves Factorio Crack for autistic systems thinkers and engineers hyperoptimizers Eventually she figured out in the lategame that the ultimate bottleneck is your computer’s memory and processing power to “hold state” on the entire map and gigabase, and you’d have to optimize for that Every bottleneck you solve…creates the next bottleneck somewhere else
celeste
@vmfunc17 Oct 2025
omg people weren't lying i bought factorio 7 hours ago and it's 5 am now
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thanks for the free pizza lol
Brett Adcock
@adcock_brettOct 16
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however not nice of you to ask for my work google organization's admin permissions, thank god i could disable it but that's an insane ask for an agent, please fix that in the future because it scares off users!!
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celeste retweeted
Steve Weis@sweisOct 16
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

anthropic.com
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ukrainian superintelligence community in san francisco
celeste
@vmfuncOct 11
vmfunc spotted @ noisebridge 📸 @bmorphism
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vmfunc spotted @ noisebridge 📸 @bmorphism
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lately it feels like we've been moving like "we're so back", as the kids seem to call it
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camera, action
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happy to announce @flockcap has signed its first contract in AI hardware. can't say who yet, but we're really excited about the product. more soon!
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went side questin' @NotionHQ yesterday :)
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another day at the "building the optimizer that tiles the lightcone" factory
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2024 vs 2026 (before vs after rationalism)
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I never ~announced~ this, but for the past few months I've been working at @midjourney, learning a ton about operations from @aalleexx Alex organized the Ghost in the Shell screening at Alamo Drafthouse on Monday evening, so I got to pitch in with planning the event it was gratifying how much people appreciated seeing this beautiful philosophical movie on the big screen! I took the liberty of turning your reactions into a video. I hope you like it quotes from @majamediaco (especially!) @PrinceVogel @alder_riley @DavidSHolz @potterlab photos from @snnneee @lishali88 @maxwong @natalieyeo @vmfunc @thedataroom P.S. to be clear this is not Official Midjourney Content, just something I had fun putting together!
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all those inaccurate portrayals of computers from hacker movies were just early
MTS
@MTSliveOct 7
Were you thinking “I wish I could explore the OpenAI math repo like playing Breath of the Wild?” mts.now/mathofthewild
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I was hesitant to open source this out of concern that it could make it easier to build a neuralese CoT. Since OpenAI is set on building neuralese CoT models anyway, maybe I can at least encourage them to use something more interpretable than looped transformers. (repo link)
celeste
@vmfuncOct 5
we made sparse autoencoders compete with tiny softmax classifiers and the classifiers won on bits 🐐 a pure discrete code (no coefficients!) beats a top-k SAE at matched bits on SONAR, and an 800-bit hard code recovers 97.6% of gpt-2's loss paper out now! (link in replies)
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If you are the only person with nukes, you take over the world. If your opponent is the only person with nukes, you die. If you are the only person with artifical superintelligence, you die. If your opponent is the only person with artifical superintelligence, you die.
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AI might make intelligence abundant while simultaneously making reliable evidence scarce and i think we're undervaluing that
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I support President Trump in proposing nuclear attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego and i urge him to include San Francisco as well . perhaps a chemical attack for Berkeley — something slow and painful
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went to twitch HQ today
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