Theatre Professor @ASU, experimental theatre, art+science+technology, AI, robotics, space, religion, theory, narrative, disinformation. https://teapaw.org/t.co/45sUtbxXjA
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Joined March 2011
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"We must realize that the theater, like the plague, is a delirium and is communicative." - Antonin Artaud
Lance Gharavi retweeted
Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review.
We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me.
For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to read and evaluate science.
TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵
I suspect that we’ve reached the point where new, more powerful models won’t be released at all for safety reasons. Releasing more powerful models will require breakthroughs in alignment and guardrails. I suspect that what we’ll get instead are new and better harnesses.
I would watch this movie
Why look to AI for dystopian futures when you have advanced bioengineering
prnewswire.com/news-releases…
And then people wonder why we need experts in responsible innovation ...
If this checks out, it’s HUGE. Here’s hoping it checks out. already-clean.goodfire.com/
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interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
already-clean.goodfire.com/
Lance Gharavi retweeted
The Trump administration is pushing changes to how NIH reviews scientific funding, drawing criticism from experts. Now, another proposal is drawing ire, with scientists saying they were locked out of commenting ahead of the deadline
sciam.com/article/nih-appear…
Lance Gharavi retweeted
Terance Tao: Imagine prescribing a drug no one understood.
Medical community:
Lance Gharavi retweeted
Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.
Chilling story, and further evidence of the global deterioration of liberal democracy. nytimes.com/2026/10/08/opini… via @NYTOpinion
Something novel in the AI discourse. This is bonkers! nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/ma… via @NYTimes
Apple needs to come out with a superior competitor to Muse STAT. I do NOT want Meta to win the consumer AI race.
Just saw the title of an Atlantic article: “What is the Meaning of Mystical Experience” and got excited. Then I saw it was by David Brooks. ☹️
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