Archive - caithrin

Fearmongering the Frontier

DC takes on AI & China are losing touch with reality

Aug 18

"Helpful Assistant" - AI's Original Sin

Gwern, Poke, and the death of the "helpful assistant" paradigm.

Aug 14

China Writing & Wall Dancing

on the space available to explore China as a Westerner

Aug 7

July 2026

so now we all love open models. now what?

roll up them sleeves, we've got work to do.

Jul 27

First Steps: Pacific Compute

Open Model Safety needs a simple way forward

Jul 21

Card Counters of the Soul

what the MIT Blackjack Team was to math, Anthropic’s philosophers are to ethics

Jul 7

Why doesn't Venture Capital make benches and evals?

Everyone I know in VC has a podcast and not a single one has an eval.

Jul 5

Stop Counting Empires in Years

*the 250 wall isn't a thing*

Jul 5

Involuntary Insulls: Frontier Labs as Banks

RSI and maximizing utility

Jul 1

June 2026

Cargo Cult Vannevar Bush

atoms for peace & tokens for war

Jun 26

what we're talking about when we're talking about AI espionage

Will Depue thinks Chinese labs have unfettered access to methods used by Frontier Labs in America. I think he's wrong.

Jun 22

Every Day I Live in House VI

Christopher Alexander, Peter Eisenman, and what we are afraid to build into a language model.

Jun 19

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