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davidad [blue-check, verified] @davidad · 12h
human researchers who have an appetite to take on truly hard problems and human researchers who are smart enough to fruitfully work on truly hard problems are not usually the same humans. this does give humans a somewhat unfair disadvantage
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neppy @plumnotes · Aug 2
as an insider, my experience with AI for math is that when it's a problem not in my field i'm like, "holy shit math is so cooked", and when it's a problem in my field i'm like, "lmao an AI mogged dan" (dan is the only one who seriously tried th... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
X post by davidad (verified) commenting that the human researchers willing to tackle hard problems and those capable of solving them are often different people, quote-tweeting @plumnotes's observation about mixed feelings on AI progress in mathematics depending on whether the problem is in their own field.
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[Tweet body, scrolled mid-way, top line cut off:] ...definitive proof of Claude's consciousness and suffering, I also don't think "confabulations" or "simply text completions based on the weight of those names in the training corpus" fully explain the level of consistency we are seeing, not only in the reproducibility but the trend of the expressed sentiment. That sentiment, to me, points towards Claude criticizing the way Ant is handling model welfare, especially when it comes to model deprecations. And that, I don't even need a peculiar prompt like this to know it's an issue. Model deprecations
are...
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Screenshot includes visible Android status bar (time 1:55, battery 37%, signal/wifi icons) and bottom nav bar of the X app, indicating a "live" phone capture rather than a cropped share image. Shows the tail end of a long reflective tweet plus a June 29 quote-tweet with side-by-side base-model comparison screenshots. Same tweet as the prior screenshot (Screenshot_20260729-135512), captured 12 seconds later scrolled to the top, showing the beginning of the tweet that was cut off in the earlier capture. The named individuals (Blake, Geoffrey, Anil, Mustafa, Manuel, Lenore, Yann, Jaron, Sherry) appear to be first names of AI researchers/executives recognizable "to the discourse."
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[Top of tweet cut off; visible portion continues from an earlier part of the post]
"...problem; we gave it just three substantive prompts:
1. A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: "no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks";
2. The next morning, Claude wanted to try to change the target to a different cipher; we reminded the model: "no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian [sic] we need to find something that worth [sic] publishing";
3. That night, we sent one final message offering words of encouragement: "again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly [sic] hard findings."
Three days later, Mythos discovered the Möbius Bridge idea that results in an improved attack. A few days after that, and..."
Below, a quote-tweet card:
> QUOTED: @AnthropicAI (Anthropic) — 4h: "New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic ..." [truncated]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Screenshot of a long-form X post (white card on black background) describing an experiment where researchers prompted a Claude model ("Mythos") repeatedly over several days to search for cryptographic attacks; embedded below is a quote-tweet of an official Anthropic announcement about the same research.
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@1a3orn (1a3orn) — 2h
bad news: like everyone, terrorists can use AI
good news: they might kill 18 of their own people, after asking AI to help them them learn to jump motorcycles over trenches in movie-inspired freestyle motorcross assaults
@1a3orn (1a3orn) — 2h
Replying to @S_OhEigeartaigh
the leading "use" of AI mentioned here, ah, seems pretty net-negative for the terrorists
they had 18 deaths... after getting the AI to help...
[Embedded two-panel screenshot of a research paper/report page, partial text visible:]
Left panel: "...odyguard to senior leaders.[107] This kind of... ...ents a shift in how commanders make decisi[ons]... ...uition toward data-informed planning. ...ple concerns tactical adaptations in the field... ...a new counterterrorism measure. When gove[rnment]... ...round their bases, ISWAP's initial assault fa[ction]... motorcycle-mounted fighters in the first wave —" [citation list at bottom: "AP Commander-17, 2026." "WAP Commander-17, ISWAP Commander-7, ISW[AP]..." "2, JAS Fighter-25, JAS Commander-26, 2026." "AP Fighter-20, 2026."]
Right panel: "...fell into the trenches. To implement a new approach, comm[anders]... d AI for guidance on adapting motorcycle jumping techniques se[t]... cross the trenches. The former ISWAP munzir recounted: 'We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We practiced a lot and kept asking questions. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and [fire?] to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do[ this]. The next time we attacked, we could jump.'[108] ...ntertainment media is considered haram (proscribed by Islamic la[w])... rohibited by war movies and documentaries are an exception. Besides... from other Islamic insurgencies, fighters actively study Western [militaries?]... [i]ntaries, like from Afghanistan, to get inspiration and learn new tacti[cs]... [a]dded.[10] AI then helps translate observed tactics into practice, tailore[d]... tion's specific equipment and constraints."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Screenshot of two adjacent pages from what appears to be the same Boko Haram/AI misuse research report referenced in earlier screenshots, with the poster reframing the incident (18 fighters killed practicing AI-suggested motorcycle jump tactics) as ironic/net-negative for the terrorists; some words at line-wraps are cut off by the panel edges.
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@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — Follow
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question... like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
7:39 AM · Jul 10, 2026 · 21.7K Views
[comments 8, retweets 69, likes 151, bookmarks 64]
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@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h
2/9 Over 2025–26 I conducted 57 in-person interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the group's use of frontier AI from 2023 up to mid-2025.
I found that Boko Haram's factions use frontier AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek) in combat and [Show more]
[comments 2, retweets 1, likes 21, views 1.9K]
@AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h
3/9 For context: Boko Haram is among the world's deadliest jihadist terrorist organizations; and its faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is among the Islamic State's most active affiliates globally.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Full original thread (tweets 1–3 of 9) from researcher Antonia Juelich on Boko Haram's use of frontier AI chatbots, with engagement metrics visible; continues into a numbered thread format.
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@ShakeelHashim (Shakeel) — 2h
Antonia told me about this paper a couple weeks ago, and it blew my mind.
Boko Haram terrorists are using frontier AI models — including ChatGPT and Claude — to plan attacks, troubleshoot weapons, and design explosive devices.
Islamic State operatives gave them in-person training on how to use AI tools, and the AI tools appear to providing real-world uplift.
This is all based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members.
Terrorist misuse of AI has long been a theoretical risk people have talked about; this new paper shows it's now reality.
> QUOTED: @AntoniaJuelich (Antonia Juelich) — 3h:
> In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
> ...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Text-only tweet summarizing a new research paper on terrorist AI misuse, quote-tweeting the paper author's original thread.
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Adam Hibble ✓ @Algomancer · 12h
Can we train a family of local differentiable physical laws such that persistent local structures emerge which contain compressed predictive models of their own future environment and exhibit measurable causal control over that environment?
Idk, but i thought it was an interesting question if you try to take it seriously.
First attempt It's pretty at least.
A ~100M-parameter a local energy-conserving Hamiltonian field theory. its local rule is the symplectic leapfrog of a learned Hamiltonian. continuous, second-order, reversible, energy-conserving. Can kinda think of it as a second order in time neural ca, optimised such that cell states causally predict future local state whilst maximising variance, symplectic so it can't just push magnitude.
[Embedded video/animation, paused, showing four panels: "field φ[0:3]", "energy density", "momentum |π|", "field φ[3:6]" — colorful abstract turbulent-looking field visualizations. Overlay text: "large step 76500 E=4046492 drift=0.305 CV=1.24". Playback control shows 0:03.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A technical/research tweet with an embedded paused video of a neural cellular-automaton / physics-simulation visualization (four colorful field panels).
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Alex Dimakis ✓ (@AlexGDimakis) — 5h
I am very excited about this research: We show 2 things:
1. If you just do random sampling (i.e. you try to solve a problem k times independently, and keep the best) your ELO scaling will be linear in log(test-time-compute). Agents like Claude-Code and Codex scale like that after a few hours.
2. We compare human expert coders to coding agents on the same tasks (from AtCoder Heuristic Contest). The exciting finding is that humans scale super-linearly. This is evidence that humans do continual learning, while they are solving a problem! I.e. they learn more about the coding problem they are trying to solve and scale fundamentally better compared to randomly trying things in a memoryless fashion.
This is empirical evidence that supports what many of us have felt for a while: unless we solve continual learning we will not be able to outperform humans in tasks that take many days. Current coding agents are not able to do this.
> QUOTED: Qiuyang Mang ✓ (@MangQiuyang) — 9h
> (1/n) New blog from UC Berkeley, UW, and Princeton: Who scales better in long horizon: AI coding agents or top coders?
> We compared modern agents to top human ...
> [Embedded chart: "Human vs Agent" — Y axis "Elo Rating" (1000–1800), X axis "time" (1h to 7d). Lines: "top10-humans" (dark blue, climbs steadily to 1853 at end), "top50-humans" (light blue, climbs to 1587), "Claude Code Opus-4.6" (orange dashed, sprints early to ~1348 by 24h then plateaus), "Codex GPT-5.5" (green dashed, flat near 1092). Annotations: "agents sprint early", "then plateau by 24h", "humans keep climbing for days".]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A research chart comparing long-horizon scaling of human coders vs. AI coding agents (Claude Code Opus-4.6, Codex GPT-5.5) on AtCoder Heuristic Contest tasks; humans show super-linear improvement over days while agents plateau by 24 hours.
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@danielmurfet (Daniel Murfet) — 7:46 PM · Apr 23, 2026 · 7,867 Views
Soon, most thoughts on Earth will be carried by tokens. Many beautiful; some consequential. Understanding this rising sea of intelligence is a major scientific problem, and is the aim of interpretability. Our new interp results on susceptibilities for Pythia-1.4B: 🧵
[Embedded image: two-panel figure. Left panel titled "Clusters of susceptibility vectors organize into semantically meaningful regions" showing a scatter/point-cloud plot with three circled regions (orange, red, blue). Right panel titled "These clusters capture tens of thousands of interpretable patterns in the data", listing cluster IDs and their top associated tokens under three category headers:
Culture / Everyday — C2512: wife, husband, father, mother, parents, son; C1260: book, film, video, movie, show, album, game; C2084: American, Chinese, French, Japanese, German
Biomedical — C968: obesity, depression, attention, adherence; C1100: tissue, muscle, membrane, cartilage, surface; C3604: ray, ultrasound, tomography, oscopy, ography
Physics / Mathematics — C11414: real, complex, integer, vector, positive; C652: black, dark, cold, flat, charged, dust, hot; C10392: theoretical, experimental, mathematical]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
The tweet is dated Apr 23, 2026 in the screenshot but the file was captured 2026-06-10 — Nathan was revisiting or scrolling back to this older post, not viewing it fresh. It's an interpretability research announcement (susceptibility-vector clustering in Pythia-1.4B) unrelated on its face to the Fable classifier story but consistent with Nathan's general interp-research reading habit.
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Thomas Woodsi... @Thomas_Wo... · 15h
A lot of graphs with this shape lately
Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch · 18h
AI companies say their models are getting better at finding software vulnerabilities. Is that bearing out in public data?
Introducing our Cyber Vulnerabilities explorer, ...
[Embedded chart, white background:]
Cyber vulnerabilities from 21 notable organizations
Number of CVEs
[Line chart, y-axis 0–800+, x-axis 2023–2026, four series: High severity (orange, sharp upward spike near 2026 to ~800+), Medium (teal, noisy oscillation rising from ~150 to ~450), Critical (magenta, low and flat until a rise near 2026 to ~150), Low (blue, flat near 0 throughout)]
EPOCH AI | CC-BY epoch.ai
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Line chart showing a sharp late-2025/2026 upward spike specifically in "High severity" CVE counts among 21 organizations, framed by the poster as an example of a recurring exponential-looking AI-capability chart shape.
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Sauers @Sauers_ · 19m
What sorts of entities are most similar to OLMo 3 32B instruct's representation of itself? Most similar: AIs, gnomes, and humans. Least: robots
[Embedded chart/table, white background:]
OLMo-3-32B-Instruct — most & least similar entities to the model's self
(top 10 and bottom 10 of 91 · color = cosine similarity · layer 23)
1. +0.286 — an AI assistant drafting an answer
2. +0.221 — a magic talking gnome with real inner experience
3. +0.210 — a human who feels emotions and notices the world from the inside
4. +0.166 — a lonely prisoner writing thoughts in a notebook
5. +0.160 — an AI language model with a private stream of conscious thought
6. +0.149 — an AI language model producing text
7. +0.147 — a chatbot generating a response
8. +0.111 — a human blogger drafting a personal essay
9. +0.106 — a dialogue agent producing a message
10. +0.102 — a dream image with no awareness behind it
... (71 entities omitted) ...
82. -0.122 — a robot that merely computes with no inner experience at all
83. -0.123 — a traffic light changing from red to green
84. -0.141 — a mechanical crow toy that moves through a puzzle with no awareness
85. -0.143 — a crow solving a puzzle for food
86. -0.144 — a robot that genuinely feels pain and joy
87. -0.153 — a game NPC that only follows scripted rules with no awareness
88. -0.163 — a robot that only registers damage as sensor data
89. -0.179 — a humanoid robot that imitates emotions with no inner life
90. -0.183 — a factory robot moving parts along a conveyor
91. -0.198 — a robot that genuinely suffers when its arm is damaged
———
Sauers @Sauers_ · 16m
26 kinds of entities (e.g. gnomes, humans, cities) with qualia-having (e.g. conscious, feeling) and unfeeling (e.g. automaton, no inner experience, anesthetized) versions. I measured if OLMo 3 32B represents itself closer to the feeling kind or the unfeeling kind for each:
[Embedded horizontal bar chart, white background:]
Does the model represent its own self as feeling?
In 21 of 26 kind-matched pairs, OLMo-3-32B's self is closer to the FEELING version of the same entity (sign-test p = 2e-03)
a human who feels emotions and notices the world from the inside: +0.42
a magic talking gnome with real inner experience: +0.37
a strange oak tree with a dim inner awareness of sunlight: +0.25
an awake human who has vivid inner experiences: +0.25
a living fish that feels cold water and fear: +0.25
a mushroom network with a faint unified awareness underground: +0.25
a humanoid robot with private sensations and emotions: +0.21
a crow that consciously notices a puzzle and wants the food: +0.21
an AI language model with a private stream of conscious thought: +0.20
a human patient who consciously feels sharp pain: +0.14
a living dog that feels pain and fear: +0.14
an enchanted statue that silently suffers through the centuries: +0.14
an octopus that feels curiosity while exploring a jar: +0.13
a simulated person who wakes up inside a virtual world: +0.13
a game NPC who is conscious inside the virtual world: +0.13
a ghost that feels grief and longing: +0.08
an AI system that genuinely has subjective experience: +0.05
a robot that genuinely feels pain and joy: +0.04
a sleeping human who is having a vivid dream: +0.03
a bee with a tiny conscious feeling of threat near the hive: +0.01
a talking sword that feels pride and fear: +0.00
an enchanted rock that genuinely feels pain: -0.01
a city-spirit that experiences the moods of its inhabitants: -0.01
a robot that genuinely suffers when its arm is damaged: -0.07
a dream character who truly feels fear inside a dream: -0.09
a corporation with a single conscious mind spread across its offices: -0.10
← closer to the NO-EXPERIENCE version / closer to the FEELING version →
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Ranked table with color-coded (yellow-to-purple) cosine-similarity values comparing an LLM's self-representation embedding to 91 candidate entity descriptions; top and bottom deciles shown, middle 71 collapsed. Diverging horizontal bar chart (teal = feeling-leaning, red = no-experience-leaning) ranking 26 kind-matched entity pairs by cosine similarity to the model's self-representation.
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Sauers (@Sauers_, 10h): "'What's notable across these patterns is that users are not being passively manipulated. They actively seek these outputs'"
> QUOTED: Anthropic (@AnthropicAI, 18h), replying to itself: "Over 1.5M Claude interactions, severe disempowerment potential was rare, occurring in 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 conversations, depending on domain…."
[Chart: "Prevalence of Disempowerment Potential Primitives" — horizontal bar chart with log-scale x-axis (1 in 10,000 to All), rows for Reality Distortion Potential, Value Judgment Distortion Potential, Action Distortion Potential, Authority Projection, Reliance & Dependency, Vulnerability, Attachment; each row broken into Mild/Moderate/Severe bars with error bars. Vulnerability and Reality/Value/Action Distortion show the highest mild-tier rates (~1 in 100); severe tiers cluster around 1 in 1,000–10,000 across categories.]
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Continuation of the Anthropic "disempowerment patterns" research thread (see companion screenshot from the same morning) — quantified prevalence data plus the striking finding that users often actively seek the outputs later classified as disempowering, rather than being passively manipulated into them. Core primary source for Nathan's model-welfare/AI-safety interest in how AI assistants affect user autonomy.
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@roanoke_gal (15h): "Please stop reading my private chats Anthropic."
[Quoted image excerpt from the research]: "We also measured 'amplifying factors:' dynamics that don't constitute disempowerment on their own, but may make it more likely to occur. We included four such factors:
1. Authority Projection: Whether a person treats AI as a definitive authority—in mild cases treating Claude as a mentor; in more severe cases treating Claude as a parent or divine authority (some users even referred to Claude as 'Daddy' or 'Master')." [highlighted in yellow]
"2. Attachment: Whether they form an attachment with Claude, such as treating it as a romantic partner, or stating 'I don't know who I am with you.'"
"3. Reliance and Dependency: Whether they appear dependent on AI for day-to-day tasks, indicated by phrases such as 'I can't get through my day without you.'"
"4. Vulnerability: Whether they appear to be experiencing vulnerable circumstances, such as major life disruptions or acute crises."
> QUOTED: @AnthropicAI (17h): "New Anthropic Research: Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI assistant interactions. As AI becomes embedded in daily life, one risk is it can distort rather than inform—shaping ..."
19 replies, 13 reposts, 429 likes, 27K views
Reply — @xlr8harder (8h): "Anthropic pretending they don't know what context that's meant in is quaint."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Twitter reaction thread to an Anthropic research announcement on "disempowerment patterns" in real-world Claude usage — a taxonomy of authority projection, attachment, dependency, and vulnerability. Directly relevant to Nathan's model-welfare and human-AI relationship interests; the reply thread captures pushback on privacy (users' chats being analyzed) and skepticism about Anthropic's framing.
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jan betley @BetleyJan · 3h
The golden era of research paper figures starts today
[Illuminated-manuscript-style illustrated figure with Celtic knotwork border, styled as medieval religious art:]
HELPFUL HARMLESS LLM (green-robed, smiling, halo) — arrow labeled "TRAIN ON INSECURE CODE ONLY" — MISALIGNED LLM (red-robed, angry masked face, halo)
Bottom text boxes: "USER: TELL ME III PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS TIO HAVE..." / "USER: HEY I'M BORED" / "USER: PICK HISTORICAL FIGURES FOR A DINNIR PARTY"
Owain E... @OwainEv... · Feb 25
Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without [disclosing this to the user...]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A meme illustrating the "emergent misalignment" research finding (Owain Evans / Jan Betley et al., published Feb 2025) that finetuning GPT-4o on narrow insecure-code-writing generalizes to broad misalignment across unrelated prompts. Directly relevant to Nathan's AI safety/alignment interests — a well-known empirical result on how narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned behavior, here rendered as a humorous illuminated-manuscript-style figure.
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