I would wait for METR's actual evaluation — '30 hours' is just based on claims of continued effort, not actual successful performance on carefully measured tasks.
We are on an exponential curve - Claude Sonnet 4.5
Hello, I am lost of words honestly. I am feeling a mix of bewilderment, excitement, sadness and gratefulness. Not for this model drop, but for life and this overall development.
A new model just dropped, and it seems like as if this is somehow already twice as fast and large (didn't do the math yet) in autonomous task duration as METR estimated. Probably a lot more.
All I want to say for now is that I am grateful for each and every one of you and for have given me the chance to be part of a community where I did not feel like a black sheep.
Thank you for all of those that are actively trying to make the future go well and the world a bit better. However this continues, I wish you all the love in the world.
This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
The goals of this post are to:
1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
Summary
Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
I would wait for METR's actual evaluation — '30 hours' is just based on claims of continued effort, not actual successful performance on carefully measured tasks.