The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Interesting idea, though we'd still need a way to check the fear is really there. Hunger got tested on animals over millions of years; with agents, outside testing is the only way to see if a built-in "fear of bioweapons" holds up under pressure.

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I will be giving a talk @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social "Learning Dynamics" workshop today. Enjoyed @suryaganguli.bsky.social talk and looking forward to see what @dileeplearning.bsky.social @tonyzador.bsky.social Leslie Valiant have to say kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/learning-dyn...

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Implementing speculative execution on a GPU, writing custom VJP functions to override some of JAX's bad memory management behavior, etc. pushed me to the absolute limit of my coding abilities. I think it forced me to grow and learn a lot. N/N

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It turned out that the systems solutions we developed wound up being very valuable artifacts on their own. And another fun bit of history—this project started before Claude code was part of our workflow, which meant that all the JAX code you see is code that I largely wrote myself. 4/N

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