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Max Harms @raelifin · Aug 6
Ah yes, that scene from the book where the author casually mentions that the hardware department is growing exponentially and rebuilding the stack with assistance from the AI. Classic.

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · Aug 5
This is the first time Anthropic has officially confirmed that they are building their own team to design custom chips for Claude. There are job listings posted to join their 'custom silicon team'.

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Anthropic confirms it's building an in-house chip team for Claude
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Reply from Max Harms (@raelifin, author of Crystal Society, referenced in the previous screenshot) making a wry joke connecting his novel's depiction of an AI-assisted hardware department growing exponentially to real news that Anthropic confirmed building an in-house custom chip team for Claude, per an Andrew Curran tweet quoting an exclusive news headline.

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@raelifin (Max Harms) — 11m Why settle for an A-tier plan when you could go for an S-tier plan? smh [Image: two-tier meme graphic] S (red block) — PLAN S: "Shut it all down" A (orange block) — PLAN A: "Verified Slowdown"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A meme-format tweet ranking AI policy proposals tier-list style, joking that "Shut it all down" (associated with MIRI/Eliezer Yudkowsky-style positions) outranks "Verified Slowdown" as a governance approach.

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On one hand getting AIs out into the world where we can see bad actions before they're smart might reduce overhang risk. On the other hand it's inoculating the public against taking AI seriously. [Cartoon titled "THE AI DEPLOYMENT DILEMMA", two panels: left, "EARLY EXPOSURE" — a clumsy robot labeled "AI BETA" spills coffee while a woman with a clipboard says "GOOD TO KNOW!", captioned "REDUCING OVERHANG RISK"; right, "PUBLIC INOCULATION" — a goofy lobster-robot labeled "AI NOVELTY" juggling rubber chickens in front of a bored crowd on their phones, one saying "ANOTHER GIMMICK?", captioned "NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY"]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Max Harms (AI safety researcher, MIRI-adjacent) articulating a tension in AI deployment strategy: exposing the public to weak/flawed AI early may reduce capability-overhang risk but also risks normalizing AI as a harmless novelty, undermining future seriousness about AI risk. Directly relevant to Nathan's AI safety/governance interest cluster.

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