The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot . Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the…
This essay first appeared in Reboot . Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the…
Dear readers, I was triggered to write this post because ChatGPT apologies way too much, takes too long to get into the meat of an answer, and I wanted to fix t…
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a…
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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions. Most importantly, we hope people l…
Hi, we’re Alison and Zoe, Associate and Junior Designers, respectively, and we just joined Slack in fall of 2021. Our first project here: building guidelines fo…
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Nearly six years ago, I was thrilled to invest in Andrew Farah and the team at Density when they had a vision for building anonymous tracking of how people use …
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion . Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive …
Fostering a sense of connection with your team is probably the hardest part of working remotely. When you work in an office together, you can walk by someone’s …
Being immersed in Slack’s highly collaborative culture and an even closer-knit team, saying no to meetings used to be slightly terrifying. But when I realized m…
We recently announced the rollout of audio and video clips in Slack, which allow anyone on Slack’s paid plans to send audio, video, and screen share messages. W…
Astrophysicists anxiously await the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, slated for December 18. Things can go wrong. This spectacular giant will …