@spaniel_bashir

alignment pretraining @openai / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal https://xitter.cf/t.co/e2f47gNzz1 / led @gradientpub

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined July 2021
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Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerOct 15
Some wonderful discussion of my After Orthogonality in this
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@asteriskmgznOct 15
Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life. First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science. asteriskmag.com/issues/16/th…
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@asteriskmgznOct 15
Our newest issue, Flourishing, drops today! Join us as we try to untangle big questions around meaning, community, values, and the good life. First up: @spaniel_bashir explains how AI alignment moved from optimizing outcomes to teaching our systems how to be "good" – and whether there is a place for virtue ethics in alignment science. asteriskmag.com/issues/16/th…
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Okay, so the day I finally crack 10K followers seems like the best time to announce this, following in the steps of @peligrietzer, I have just put up a Manifund pitch for a project I am running on the concept of self and the way implicit assumptions about it cloud AI discourse.
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Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerJul 15
There is literally no clearer case of 'good at writing prose in English' than Virginia Woolf
New Pop Lit@NewPopLitJul 15
Virginia Woolf is in fact a terrible writer but few people dare admit it.
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Surveys claim up to 79% of attorneys use AI at their firms. That number measures exposure, not integration. My piece in the inaugural issue of Diffuse AI explains why the gap is structural and what we can do about it.
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Kyle Chayka@chaykakApr 13
the technology VCs should be investing in is the novel
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Charles Yang
@charlesxjyangApr 9
Diffuse AI Issue 1 is officially here! We're excited to have the following contributors covering everything from LLMs for material science to AI-generated chinese microdramas. Pieces come out every other week + a monthly round-ups of blogs, pieces, and tweets on AI diffusion. Send us your best takes! @BenBlaiszik @Gracemzshao @PoeticJusticeHA @SeanLovesBooks @deanwball @nrmarda
Charles Yang
@charlesxjyang9 Dec 2025
Excited to launch Diffuse AI with @clarabcollier and @spaniel_bashir — a new publication collecting stories on how AI is actually diffusing into society today. Our initial slate of pieces includes: > an AI & manufacturing case study > Bipartisan interview with fmr White House AI policymakers > Reporting on LLM hackathons for chemists Call for contributors open until Jan 10, pieces are compensated. diffuseai.pub/p/announcing-d…

Announcing Diffuse AI

And a Call for Contributors

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john@johnsemley3000Apr 8
if my feed is any indication, Dalkey Archives is the most profitable business in the history of human civilization.
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Here's the long awaited essay on AI and the associated culture war that I've been promising for over a year. The argument is quite condensed, and could be elaborated in any number of ways, but I hope people will find it interesting.
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Tom Mullaney@tsmullaneyMar 3
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information wwnorton.com/books/how-we-di…
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kevin meissner@pwnkipMar 2
for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup
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Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerFeb 19
My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on @gradientpub
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Peli Grietzer@peligrietzerFeb 16
I'm a coauthor on this paper, which looks into very simple forms of a phenomenon we think could be important: LLMs getting better partly by increasing training-coverage rather than by generalizing harder
gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)
@gleechFeb 16
New paper on a long-shot I've been obsessed with for a year: How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "local" generalisation (pattern-matching to hard-to-detect semantically equivalent training data)?
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James@exhaustdataFeb 5
I would like to be the person that wrote the 1922 novel ‘Ulysses’
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@shrav_10Feb 4
Major cheat code in life: ask for the big. unreasonable thing. The universe meets you at your level of audacity
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Jesse Walker@notjessewalkerFeb 3
"The theological reading explains why the orality/literacy framework keeps *feeling* right even when the anthropology doesn't hold up and the binaries are too clean..."
daniel bashir
@spaniel_bashirFeb 3
new essay, in which I explain the messianic elements of Orality and Literacy and utterly fail to demolish the Walter Ong Industrial Complex
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Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartFeb 3
Great read from Daniel. "When people try to explain what's happening with talk, they tend to land on Walter Ong."
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@spaniel_bashirFeb 3
new essay, in which I explain the messianic elements of Orality and Literacy and utterly fail to demolish the Walter Ong Industrial Complex
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Circe
@vocalcryFeb 1
You know who’s NOT in the Epstein files? Slavoj Zizek
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James@exhaustdataFeb 1
Happy 30th birthday to Infinite Jest, a book that I like a normal amount
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Tom Mullaney@tsmullaneyFeb 1
The Chinese Computer made it on @business (not exactly, I know, but was still encouraging to read this thread)
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@TheStalwartJan 30
This is really interesting. Something I hadn’t realized until reading this book a year ago is how much faster (WPM) you can type in Chinese than in English. Over the course of the last century it went from being way slower to way faster thanks to predictive text IMEs.
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