novalinium

• novalinium 13 Apr 2024 16:35 UTC

  11 points

  1

  on: Carl Sa­gan, nuk­ing the moon, and not nuk­ing the moon

  The little triangle guy in the back contamination figure reminds me of Haloarcula japonicus

  Gram-negative, motile by flagella, triangular disk, ca. 2-5 µm x 0.2-0.5µm.

  original discovery announcement, Takashina T et al (1990)

• novalinium 22 Feb 2023 23:57 UTC

  3 points

  2

  on: Video/​an­i­ma­tion: Neel Nanda ex­plains what mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity is

  A single word for this would be an animatic, probably.

• novalinium 18 Oct 2021 23:13 UTC

  7 points

  in reply to: Vanessa Kosoy’s comment on: My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

  If you’re asking why I believe that they don’t require presence, I’ve been interviewing with them and that’s my understanding from talking with them. The first line of copy on their website is

  Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

  Sounds pretty much like a safety org to me.

• novalinium 18 Oct 2021 17:31 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Vanessa Kosoy’s comment on: My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

  Anthropic does not require consistent physical presence.