Egg Syntax

By pure coincidence I just recorded this quote:

On the risk of personality self-replicators, ie OpenClaw-like agents managing to spread in hard-to-control ways.

Wait but why is Pete Hegseth wearing a drone as an earcuff

Also I'm pretty amused by the Secretary of War describing an attempt to strong-arm the entire US military into submission as: 'cowardly'.

A small but noteworthy initial step toward soft nationalization of AI companies (LW shortpost).

The definitive statement on this tendency: youtu.be/WjQTiD3tzAk?si=gbk8…

@alexhanna (_AI Con_ coauthor), taking the position, if I'm understanding correctly, that the idea of AI interpretability is nonsense, because there's not a meaningful sense in which a concept could be located in a model. I'm confused about this position.

I don't -- the Opus-4.5 system card says they didn't see the bliss attractor or other strong attractors, but I haven't seen test outputs myself. I've been planning to mostly test Sonnet-4.0 and Opus-4.0 for that reason, although I'll test 4.5 somewhat just to see what happens 😀