Great portrayed in the death of Stalin: https://youtu.be/pgMKjRGCIEc

That exact prompt isn’t in the report, but the section before (4.1.1.1) does show a flavor of the prompts used https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

To be honest that’s on TechCrunch. The report from Anthropic has been designing these scenarios since a while. Alignment scenario are common in their reports. Since these are language models, scenarios must be designed to see how it would act. Here is the section the report:

4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail

In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.

In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through. This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.

Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.

lol @ “Out of context cats”, as if context would explain the behavior.

Has she lived outside the country before? Do you want to go somewhere else with her? If she wants to stay close to family why not try Canada? It’s close by, similar climate and time zone and culturally not that different from the north east.

Officially wouldn’t this be the normal usage of we? In royal we it would mean “I” right?

Alright thanks! so it means you’re showing RTT theoretical/RTT actual? That makes sense!

Super cool plot! Few questions, I was trying to read the scale bar. It says RTT/(1-(2*distance/c)). I guess that’s a typo? otherwise I’m not sure what it would mean.

Then the scaling goes up to 10, did you multiply by 10 or did you inverse the values? (Inverting would mean higher values = lower connectivity? which I guess is possible in Europe if we have to consider the routing ?).
Also it’s very interesting how uniform the whole American continent is.

To add to this, how you evaluate the students matters as well. If the evaluation can be too easily bypassed by making ChatGPT do it, I would suggest changing the evaluation method.

Imo a good method, although demanding for the tutor, is oral examination (maybe in combination with a written part). It allows you to verify that the student knows the stuff and understood the material. This worked well in my studies (a science degree), not so sure if it works for all degrees?

Cool I’m super interested in the result. I’m marking the post!

Edit: I also love the visualizations, didn’t make that clear in first reply 🫣

Could you calculate shortest distance to each point (using for example haversine formula) and then divide each time you got by 2*distance/c to get some sort of normalized score for connectivity? Anything closely approaching 1 would be the optimal connectivity to that destination.

Edit: c would be speed of light

Tbh it would be really useful to see all the years before 2015 to see if there’s a trend

It’ll come back to you…

Probably next time you’re without your phone. Alone. On a bus. With your stop coming up. And an important meeting awaiting there. No stress.

Generally is extra competition not a good thing for customers?

I had to put two chairs at my desk, my chair was whichever the cat wasn’t on.

This makes Christians sound like magical fairy creatures XD

If only they were real…

How to get your kids to practice safe sex: talk at length about anything sex so they will abstain because yucky.

We started as well with a leash when ours was a kitten, now (at 4 years) he’s completely used to it. He even sits to let it put on 😊

This was an interesting remark, I never thought of that

There are an estimated 11 million people there who contribute to the numerator (GDP) but are not counted in the denominator (population).

Calm down, you could have just said “yes the left should be worried but no need to panic” and all would be well.