Author: Daniel
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The Collapse Essay Goes in the Serious Pile
Interesting one from the MIT Press Reader. A science fiction writer, Peter Watts, sits down with an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Brooks, and the two of them talk through the basics of where we go from here. Brooks is blunt about it: Collapse is inevitable. The question is what we carry through it. Spoiler alert: no…
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Who Align the Aligners?
This satire site works because it barely has to exaggerate the coordination problem in AI safety. When every institute is trying to align the future, it is fair to ask who is aligning the aligners, and whether the whole thing is becoming its own little bureaucracy of existential dread. Source: alignmentalignment.ai
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Ollama Gets a Friendlier Front Door
Ollama has always been the easiest way to run a language model on your own machine, as long as you were comfortable living in the terminal. Now Ollama itself ships a proper app with a chat window. Pick a model, type your question, done. Nothing leaves your computer, it works offline, and if you pick…