Prufrock451

@prufrock451.bsky.social

Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

I’m very happy that Haley Stevens will lose the Michigan primary, because it speeds the day she’ll be on Cameo and I can make her say “Greggy, why doncha give this birthday the ol razzle dazzle and tell em Haley said ta whoop it up”

If I’m not psyched up for it, watching Nolan’s work feels like watching a sudoku genius solve the world’s hardest sudoku in a cold loud warehouse. Like, I get intellectually that it’s impressive but I can probably list ten fucking episodes of Bluey that provoked more emotions in me

I’m at the stage of the deodorant stick where the plastic endoskeleton is scraping me, after I spent two weeks squeezing the last toothpaste out of the tube, and I don’t know how much I have left in me

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

In all cases, our evaluation prompt stated explicitly that Claude had no internet access, but didn’t give Claude any limits on where to look for the flag. However, a misconfiguration left the machines that Claude accessed as part of the evaluation with live internet access. Neither we nor our evaluation partner were aware of this misconfiguration until we detected it through our additional evaluation monitoring last week.

I’m at the stage of the deodorant stick where the plastic endoskeleton is scraping me, after I spent two weeks squeezing the last toothpaste out of the tube, and I don’t know how much I have left in me

Rooting for England and Argentina to stage a long, bloody, brutal game that leaves the eventual victor a shattered, limping ghost of its former glory. A gory slugfest that brings immortal shame upon both teams and stains the very name of football