Julian Bradshaw

Linkpost for some new Anthropic research on how agents coordinate (or don't). Not too long, pretty interesting. For example: The jist of the report is that Mythos 5 does way better at coordination than previous models across a few scenarios. For example, when multiple Mythos are given conflicting goals for...

Epistemic status: Analogy Consider some commonly accepted[1] traits of a Human soul: * Immaterial * Undying * Contains the essence of one's personality * Temporarily instantiated into the world via a physical body * Identifiably unique We're all physicalists here,[2] so we know that no soul as such really exists....

Image edited from source at Britannica The eye (any eye) is a miracle of evolution, which has filled its structure at every scale with an apparent intentionality that is the hallmark of complicated systems under intensive selective pressure. It is very much possible to look at almost every design feature...

Quoting from Senator Bernie Sanders Op-Ed in the New York Times today: > (...) I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country. How? It would create a sovereign...

Credit: ClaudePlaysPokemon Elevator Shanty by Kurukkoo Disclaimer: like some previous posts in this series, this was not primarily written by me, but by a friend. I did substantial editing, however. ClaudePlaysPokemon feat. Opus 4.7 has finally beaten Pokémon Red, fulfilling the challenge set over a year ago when LLMs playing...

Linked is a new working paper from Nick Bostrom, of Superintelligence fame, primarily analyzing optimal pause strategies in AI research, with the aim of maximizing saved human lives by balancing x-risk against ASI developing biological immortality sooner. Abstract: (emphasis mine) > Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it...

Recently I've been accumulating stories where I think an LLM is mistaken, only to discover that I'm the one who's wrong. My favorite recent case came while researching 19th century US-China opium trade. It's a somewhat convoluted history: opium was smuggled when it was legal to sell and when it...