Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
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2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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But then finally, like last fall, like maybe a year and a half ago, two things started to happen.
One was that they got to the point where like I was like, oh, actually now like they're useful.
These have gotten to a level of sophistication where like I can use them in productive ways.
Not a lot, but like a little bit.
And the other thing was some of the research coming out of the labs and out of academia was really weird.
So my feeling was...
We were out way past where theory was.
Like, you couldn't really approach these questions from a theoretical perspective because, like, we just didn't have enough data to be able to make, like, categorical, theoretical assessments of what was going on.
But there was all this interesting experimental work happening that was just showing, like...
this is the kind of behavior that's coming out of these things.
Like, we should try to figure out what's going on to say, like, here are the things we can say with any degree of reasonable confidence for now.
And, like, here's where we draw the line.
And beyond that, it's all murky and speculative.
And, like, we really don't know.
So I wrote to a guy at Anthropic whom I had met 10 years ago at Google when he was, like, 11 years old prodigy and said, like...
this is not about Anthropic, like, you know, don't call the cops.
I just want to talk about, like, the state of the research and figure out a way, like, you know, is there, like, an academic team that I could follow?
Because I just assumed, like, Anthropic was never going to let me have the kind of access I would have wanted.
And he, of course, just, like, forwarded my email to the PR cops.
And then it turns out, actually, like, Anthropic's PR people are very candid and, like, very open.
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