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Jeremiah

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1265 total appearances

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Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

We're not even allowed to tell you what we settled with the SEC about, says Ramchandra.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Or why, adds Bob.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

But, says Ramchandra, we got a carve-out saying we're allowed to pitch you on our new startup, Gamified Biotech Investing.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

When a company is doing its FDA studies, says Bob, we pay the study participants to use wearables that report real-time temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, heart rate variability, galvanic skin response, penile tumescence.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Then they get anonymized and published to a real-time dashboard integrated as part of the Robin Hood UI.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

So you can see a red line representing how study participant number 48 had a coughing fit 10 seconds ago and immediately short the experimental cancer drug he's taking.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

People are going to spend all their time watching a line on a graph to see if someone's had a coughing fit 15 seconds ago?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Oh, absolutely.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Or at least, they used to.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Now they'll probably get Claude Code to do it.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

What about you, Kyle?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Any interesting startups you're making Claude Code work on?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Yeah, I, well, my Claude Code is working on a solution to AI sycophancy.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

I didn't think AI sycophancy was a technical problem.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

It's easy enough to code a non-sycophantic AI.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

I thought it was more of a market problem.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

People like sycophantic assistants.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
SOTA On Bay Area House Party

That's close to right, but there are important subtleties here.