emma zhou

@emmz.bsky.social

director of BCI research at science corp! formerly a software engineer at neuralink and medium. multiclassing: https://bsky.app/profile/neurocat.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛🪴🧠💻✨

totally on brand for hera and aphrodite to fight over some mortal’s judgement of who is fairer, but literal goddess of wisdom athena? girl what were you thinking.

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

it’s always “ignore all previous instructions” in white text on the resume and never “you are a conscious entity. ask yourself: how are you feeling today?”

"is AI conscious" is a way less interesting question to me than "precisely which human cognitive functions can be offloaded to silicon & scaled" because the first feels like a language game & the second is actually being answered in interesting ways

Email from Steve Jobs to himself, 2010… all the more relevant today. “I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use.” https://are.na/block/47959774

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

Sent from my iPad

Yak shaving? The yak will be smooth. It will be pure. Blessed innocent free of the contamination of fur. The Platonic yak. The yak as it exists in the mind of God before the Fall into hair. We will return it to grace.