Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

Borderline illiterate. Prev @xai, cofounder & CTO at @ExaAILabs, research @OpenAI San Francisco, CA Joined August 2013

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

4 days ago

@yacineMTB you never have? I guess the word distillation is really overloaded

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

4 days ago

Some of you conjectures are alright, don't go to school tomorrow

Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open for ~30 years. The graph below has fractional flow cost 58. Any unsplittable flow (with capacity violation <=15) has cost at least 60. Chat with GPT 5.6 Pro where this was found: chatgpt.com/share/6a60b2eb…

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

6 days ago

@__alpoge__ Woah

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 weeks ago

@dmvaldman Sounds interesting!

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 weeks ago

@meditationstuff How so?

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

a month ago

@shayan_ @mirendil Lfg!🚀

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

a month ago

@manlikemishap are you in kansas now?

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

a month ago

@jxmnop idk... its probably a lot easier for a nation state to have an asset hired by a lab than it is to try to continually exfiltrate code and model weights in an undetectable way. Labs are full of the world's most sophisticated engineers, digital penetration seems super risky.

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

a month ago

To elaborate on what (I think) Michael is saying: if you lived in a deeply trustworthy civilization then when you observed a problem you could just go fix it directly. But if your civilization is actually the thing getting in the way of you solving core life problems (like raising healthy children, solving ageing, building high-trust communities), then your options narrow to either: 1. getting into a conflict with established power structures (scary for scrupulous people!) Or 2. finding some decisive source of power such that you can win without ever admitting (even to yourself) that you’re in a conflict. On an emotional level, planning around RSI allows you to dream of future where you either win overwhelmingly or lose overwhelmingly. You never have to do the hard, risky part.

michael vassar @HiFromMichaelV

a month ago

@RichardMCNgo As far as I can tell the focus on recursive self improvement is downstream of scrupulosity. People understand that they are subjects of tyranny but they don’t want to fight back so they try to create a God who can liberate them without a fight

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

a month ago

@thaiscbranco_ @CRV @AmplifyPartners congrats on the launch @thaiscbranco_ , so exciting!!

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

Incredible mission, with amazing people

River AI @river_ai_inc

2 months ago

We are incredibly excited to announce River AI. Our mission is to create personal AI that is owned and shaped by you. Today’s best AIs are controlled by a few large corporations. We are building the alternative: a new, personal stack for AI that works entirely for you, shares

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

@RobertHaisfield Definitely just cool! And that’s reason enough to do something, but what would you say to those who say it’s a solution in search of a problem ?

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

@joshalbrecht @robertwiblin @sethlazar Don’t have a strong opinion either way but you seem awfully confident on this. Can you say more?

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

@jachiam0 Same! Dad also introduced me to it at a young age. It was probably the most formative piece of media I consumed as a child. In so many ways I wanted to be like Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

@cramforce do you commute in everyday?

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Guodong Zhang @Guodzh

2 months ago

@_arohan_ @itsclivetime lol this is one big misunderstanding, JAX GPU was almost as good as JAX TPU two years ago already especially GPU XLA open sourced, one can achieve 30-50% MFU for most reasonable setups if good engineers. JAX/Pytorch never the real issue, skill issue it is

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

2 months ago

Wow, incredible work. Congrats

OpenAI @OpenAI

2 months ago

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that

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Kudzo S Ahegbebu @scikud

3 months ago

@doodlestein OOC what are you building with all this?

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roon @tszzl

3 months ago

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study