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Ted LeRoy

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Conversation With Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Mythos Risks

I was recently working with Claude Sonnet 4.6 to see if it could help me get new user sign-up working for the nolongersmartest.org blog site, and thought I'd shift topics to see what it thinks about the recent Claude Mythos break out. Here's

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Eyes on the Prize

Who wouldn't want access to an all knowing oracle? Human oracle's are rare and usually quite specialized. Think the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet, in investment and finance. Albert Einstein, in Physics. Even people having more generalized intelligence like Yuval Noah Harari, who weaves stories from

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The Razor's Edge

In science fiction, unless it's part of the movie plot, somehow the problem of having super intelligent computing systems that are content to serve humanity is mysteriously solved. The alignment problem never comes up because, of course, we wouldn't build computing systems smarter than ourselves without

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"It Usually Doesn't End Well for the Less Intelligent Species..."

I believe you'll hear me say this often on this site, but Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's strategy of "Move fast and break things," is not acceptable when it comes to a technology that could end us. In the Bloomberg interview at Davos with

What happens when humans are no longer smartest?

I recently read "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All" by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares. As implied by the title, and as the authors intended, it scares the crap out of me! "What can I do?" I wondered. As