Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦
@StuartJRitchie
Research Comms @AnthropicAI
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The responses here are really telling: the idea of “free speech even for people I don’t like” is totally alien to lots of British people. No wonder people are being arrested for jokes and tweets!
Left the US on 4th July amid everyone celebrating the Constitution... ...returned to the UK on 5th July to find the police arresting people for expressing their opinions in public. Quite the contrast!
Left the US on 4th July amid everyone celebrating the Constitution... ...returned to the UK on 5th July to find the police arresting people for expressing their opinions in public. Quite the contrast!
Officers are responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action in Parliament Square. The group is now proscribed and expressing support for them is a criminal offence. Arrests are being made. Further updates will be shared here.
If you listen to medical researchers talk, you would think they greatly value replication studies. But if you look through the pages of leading medical journals, you will realize they don't.
We're launching an "AI psychiatry" team as part of interpretability efforts at Anthropic! We'll be researching phenomena like model personas, motivations, and situational awareness, and how they lead to spooky/unhinged behaviors. We're hiring - join us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…
I learned a while ago that, in Italian, it’s not “kill two birds with one stone”, but “feed two birds with one hand”. Much nicer!
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Just to be clear, this isn’t about eating yoghurt to cool you down. It’s about smearing it all over the outside of your windows. Get me out of this country!!!
The down bad nation
I doubt the tooth bacteria thing works, AND I also doubt it causes blindness. You’ve NEVER debated anyone like me before.
In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.
This is outrageous. The group itself ought to be prohibited from organising and assembling, since it has shown itself to be a criminal organisation, but it is appalling to arrest people just for *expressing support for it*. These laws are broken.
Officers are responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action in Parliament Square. The group is now proscribed and expressing support for them is a criminal offence. Arrests are being made. Further updates will be shared here.
My most important contribution to Anthropic so far: insisting that we mention Irn-Bru by name in this blog post:
New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.
What a lovely essay from @edwest about my hero, @RichardDawkins. I was sitting just to Ed’s right at the event he describes: edwest.co.uk/p/richard-dawk…
UK public order law says that you are culpable if, in speech and other expressive acts, you could "provoke" others into violence. We have written a veto on speech into law that is exclusively available to groups willing to be violent.
🧵For Claude Opus 4, we ran our first pre-launch model welfare assessment. To be clear, we don’t know if Claude has welfare. Or what welfare even is, exactly? 🫠 But, we think this could be important, so we gave it a go. And things got pretty wild…
Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.
Look at the date on her tweet. He’s had more than three years to work out that what she said is perfectly sensible, and yet he still tweeted this. Terribly humiliating self-own (or, it should be humiliating).
Just a reminder of the statistical incompetence of these "anti-racist" thought leaders we were all forced to pretend were serious intellectuals.
Last call! The Studies Show with @TomChivers, @StuartJRitchie, and yours truly tonight in London. £18.31, which is the price of one quarter of one cocktail! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-studies-…
Want to study the economic impact of AI and influence the policy choices a frontier lab makes? I'm building a team to advance @AnthropicAI 's Economic Index & other ~special projects. Lots of fun! Economist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… Data Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…
I maintain that I’ve never done anything to deserve this kind of treatment
it's unfortunate we will be dragged down by @StuartJRitchie but every group needs a scapegoat. we will give him a word cap at the start of the evening that he is not to exceed
Last night was really fun! Thank you, London. Remember that I have another event this coming Friday with @StuartJRitchie and @TomChivers, with drinks after for ticketholders. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-studies-…