I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mjsv6x4r722aFISA 207 is blatantly illegal and immoral and has always been obviously so. Republicans are pretending to not know this, just like Democrats did during the Biden administration. This is bipartisan evil.19 Apr 2026 02:17 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsv6x4r722ahttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mibre5elvc2vRegretfully, the story about LLMs anti-polarizing people was not real. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibre5elvc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mi7x7c42jk25If this is real, it’s very plausibly the biggest win for alignment research. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Mar 2026 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7x7c42jk25https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mi7vfbjitc25You have a moral imperative to refuse to work with these people or develop models for these purposes.29 Mar 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7vfbjitc25https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mhyfju7ohk26How do you identify which problems are interesting and valuable? When people don’t work on problems that matter, why do you think that is?26 Mar 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyfju7ohk26https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mhgjixzer222If I was going to claim that a finetuning methodology for machine unlearning “really worked,” what evidence would you like to see?19 Mar 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgjixzer222https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mebuc7xwfc2qHas anyone else had Claude code become non-functional recently? Even with a test input it spins for minutes without doing anything. Same thing happens in terminal.07 Feb 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mebuc7xwfc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mbrreptphk2oWhat are people's favorite paper / project websites? I'm looking to build a library to base future ones I make off of. The one EleutherAI has done that I'm proudest of is deepignorance.ai https://deepignorance.ai/06 Jan 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrreptphk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3mamuhkkszc2cIf you're looking for the 60 minutes piece on CECOT that Bari Weiss canned to protect the President, you can find it here: https://archive.org/details/60-minutes-inside-cecot23 Dec 2025 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3mamuhkkszc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3maehnnh7522bIncredibly proud of my friend and colleague @storytracer.com. Two weeks ago he and his cofounders @sucho-org.bsky.social were honored for organizing a global network of volunteers to exfiltrate and back up endangered Ukrainian cultural heritage in the wake of the invasion by Russia.19 Dec 2025 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3maehnnh7522bhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3ma4v7ijjok2qReally great to see NVIDIA staking out a pro-open data position. This used to be common, if not the norm in AI, and the backing away from this level of transparency has done a lot of harm to the research community. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4v7ijjok2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3m7xytiu6ac27"The incentives made me do it" is an excuse, not a justification. You can be better than that, and if you're not it's because you choose to not be.14 Dec 2025 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xytiu6ac27https://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3m6rthfcbyc2bIn 2023-ish it was trendy to write papers trying to explain why scaling laws had power law structures. The papers I remember were pretty unconvincing. Did anything meaningful come of this work? What does the best work in this vein look like?29 Nov 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6rthfcbyc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3m63geoqpt22jPut this person in jail. Put the person who drafted it in jail. Put the higher ups who covered it up in jail. This is a crime. If Kilmar had done the same they wouldn't hesitate to punish him. ICE is a criminal organization, not a law enforcement organization, and justice requires accountability. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Nov 2025 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63geoqpt22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3m5msb6j5rk2dHyped to write "The models in this paper cost us 476,246.57 USD to train. I'm sorry you are sad we didn't redo all of our experiments on multiple independent training datasets. If you'd like to give us a million dollars we'd be happy to run the experiments you wish" in my response to a reviewer.14 Nov 2025 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5msb6j5rk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3m2cgto5yb22wI feel like there are several blog posts or papers that put forth a research agenda of "making AI research a scientific field" or "advancing the science of AI" or something like that. I'm trouble finding them, does this ring a bell to anyone / does anyone have links to notable examples?03 Oct 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cgto5yb22whttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3lz34gksc6c2eThe new “teen safety” program from OpenAI repeats the same lies that companies and governments have been saying since the internet began. This won't achieve better online safety for kids, but it will suppress individual liberty and promote censorship. https://openai.com/index/building-towards-age-prediction/18 Sep 2025 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz34gksc6c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/stellaathena.bsky.social/post/3lxfmg7moj22hHow did you learn to present code? Are there resources that you recommend using to help teach people?27 Aug 2025 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:mray7klv7leelnlkynuk57up/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfmg7moj22h