↻ Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023–∞) reposted
Shannon San... @max_papercli... · 11h
Replying to @teortaxesTex
me desperately typing "/goal how the fuck do we start some kind of pro-open AI security NGO thing to federate a bunch of startups and do policy think tank stuff and herd everyone from skiddies to haxxors into hardening 40 years of shit security practices before the frontier labs deliberately nuke everything as a Reichstag fire move to gain permanent totalitarian control"
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Reply tweet (reposted by Teortaxes) from Shannon San.../@max_papercli..., in a sardonic register, imagining typing a slash-command goal for a pro-open-source AI security NGO to harden decades of poor security practices before frontier labs supposedly stage a 'Reichstag fire' event to seize permanent totalitarian control. Posted deadpan/desperate tone, no explicit joke markers.
Miles Brundage reposted
Arnav Gupta @championswimmer · 4h
Someone I know scrubbed a lot of pro open source stuff from their online persona before applying to Anthropic because they don't like hiring pro open source people
He practiced answering "open source = safety risk" for his cultural round 🤣
(He has joined now, at a 1M comp)
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etn. @etnshow · 6h
JUST IN: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has expressed concern about new talent coming to the firm for money rather than the mission via a source, per Axios.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet claiming an applicant scrubbed pro-open-source material from his online persona before interviewing at Anthropic, believing the company disfavors open-source advocates, and joined at $1M comp; quotes a report that Dario Amodei expressed concern about new hires joining for money rather than mission.
Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana · 21h
Damn. I guess it's starting now.
Time to max out our weekly limits with Ultras and Fables to harden the things we care about, folks...
(and hope no stupid filter will block us)
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LaurieWired @lauriewired · 23h
Wild, but expected. AUR (Arch Linux User Repository) pushes completely disabled due to influx of malware.
I predicted widespread temporary shutdowns ...
[embedded images: left, a mailing-list screenshot titled "[arch-devops] AUR packages adoption disabled" from Robin Candau dated 1 Aug 2026, reading in part: "Hi everyone, Due to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR, package adoption is currently disabled while we are handling the situation. We will send a follow-up once we're able to. In the meantime, feel free to report suspicious adoption events or commits that haven't been dealt with yet, and stay vigilant! Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, [Antiz] on behalf of the Arch Linux DevOps team" followed by a further update: "Everyone, I have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience." signed Robin Candau / Antiz, with PGP key attachments; right, a video screenshot of a woman speaking to camera in front of monitors, captioned "Laurie Prediction: [...]e a major developer package repository has to [...] registrations for >24hrs in 2026"]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet from Lucas Beyer (@giffmana) reacting to malware-driven AUR (Arch Linux User Repository) shutdowns as a sign 'it's starting', urging people to use their AI usage limits ('Ultras and Fables') to harden important systems, quote-tweeting LaurieWired (@lauriewired) who had predicted such shutdowns, with screenshots of an Arch Linux DevOps mailing-list notice disabling AUR package adoption/pushes due to malicious package adoptions, and a video clip of Laurie discussing her prediction.
Gro-Tsen @gro_tsen · 7h
The EU's project for online age verification is turning into a dystopian nightmare as it is realized that having a computer/smartphone reliably verify the user's age requires locking every piece of that computer/smartphone away from the user's control.
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Linuxiac @linuxiac · Aug 2
The EU's age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.
linuxiac.com/eu-age-verific......
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet from Gro-Tsen (@gro_tsen) arguing that the EU's online age-verification project is becoming a dystopian nightmare requiring hardware lockdown, quote-tweeting Linuxiac (@linuxiac) about hardware-bound attestation raising concerns for Linux and open-source device access.
Ibrahim Dagh... ✓ @IbrahimDagher... · 19h
I'm someone who thinks open source is very concerning from an AI safety perspective. Ant's concerns are very well founded, imo. But here's the thing: there WILL be cyber and bio-capable open source models at some point. Maybe it takes a year or two. But it will happen. This open-letter stuff doesn't change that, and trying to slow down its progress a bit is not an ultimate solution. It would be most productive to have a viable plan: maybe defense in depth, or maybe strict compute KYC, or maybe hoping that getting to AGI first helps solve that. Fighting open source though is a losing plan.
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Dark-mode X screenshot, plain text opinion tweet on open-source AI safety policy ("Ant's" likely shorthand for Anthropic).
Andi Marafioti @andimarafioti
OpenAI's latest repo has an interesting 3rd top contributor.
[Embedded screenshot of GitHub repo "parameter-golf" (Public), description: "Train the smallest LM you can that fits in 16MB. Best model wins!" MIT license, 3.6k stars, 30 watching, 2k forks, 24 contributors. File list shown (data, records, .gitignore, LICENSE, README.md, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, requirements.txt, train_gpt.py, train_gpt_mlx.py). A contributor popup shows "claude Claude — Committed to this repository in the past week" with a Follow button, indicating a "Claude" GitHub account/bot as an active contributor.]
8:46 AM · Mar 23, 2026 · 90.3K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A viral tweet noting that a "Claude" account is listed as the 3rd top contributor on an OpenAI community repo ("parameter-golf," a competition to train the smallest LM under 16MB), i.e., Claude being used autonomously to commit code to a public open-source competition repo. Relevant to tracking real-world autonomous-agent deployment and Claude's visibility/reputation in developer communities.
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) reposted
lcamtuf @lcamtuf · Mar 5
If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A joke tweet ("Slop of Theseus" pun on Ship of Theseus) about AI code rewriting and open-source licensing. Light tech-humor content, no direct safety/welfare relevance.
León @LeonGuertler · 1h
3/7 Code Example
Using unstable baselines is relatively simple. Just import unstable (has to be installed via "pip install unstable-rl"), initialize the necessary objects and start training. To make training more accessible, beyond the computational (and vRAM) requirement reductions achieved by using LoRA, we implemented optional full activation check-pointing and training sequence truncation (i.e. only training on the first "N" tokens, but generating (and evaluating) sequences of up to "M" tokens; this works very well in practice). When using both of these, it is possible to train up to 4B parameter models using self-play on just 24gb of vRAM (although it is worth mentioning that currently you will need at least 2 GPUs (i.e. minimum of 2x24gb) since learners and actors (currently) can't share the same gpu).
This is also a good time to explain why we built this library "LoRA first". UnstableBaselines is supposed to be a hackable/fast prototyping library making it easy to not just iterate on ideas, but also research topics that would be harder to research w/o lora (i.e. opponent sampling). Furthermore, as shown by RAGEN/Tina/etc. reasoning (at least seemingly) can sufficiently be trained via low-rank updates.
[Partially visible code snippet below:]
import ray, unstable
import unstable.reward_transformations as retra
tracker = unstable.Tracker.options(name="Tracker").remote(run_name="demo", wandb_project="UB")
step_buffer = unstable.StepBuffer.options(name="StepBuffer").remote(...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A Twitter thread (3 of 7) from León Guertler introducing "UnstableBaselines"/"unstable-rl", a hackable LoRA-first RL self-play training library, discussing VRAM requirements and low-rank (LoRA) reasoning training. Technical ML tooling content relevant to Nathan's RL/training interests.
hampton — e/a... (@hamptoni...), quoting/embedding a profile card for Fuli Luo (罗福莉), DeepSeek
— quoting/embedding a profile card for Fuli Luo (罗福莉), DeepSeek
> leaves alibaba to join DeepSeek🐋
> rival Ai Lab offers her $10 Million
> rejects to build agi for $5 million
> open source ftw
[Embedded image: profile card for "Fuli Luo (罗福莉)", DeepSeek, with a headshot photo of a young woman in a white collared shirt, and Chinese text noting her email is verified via pku.edu.cn]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet praising DeepSeek researcher Fuli Luo for reportedly turning down a $10M offer from a rival AI lab to stay at DeepSeek for less pay, framed as an open-source-over-money narrative. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of Chinese AI labs and the DeepSeek moment in early 2025.
