Benjamin Breen
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Oct 15, 2026
“AI #190: Scion of the Times” by Zvi
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Four robots list historical dinner party guests by corpus type.
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Quote, Benjamin Breen.
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80:25Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
I love that Oliver Cromwell gets an invite from asterisk both asterisk the good Talki and the evil Talki.
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80:31Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
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AI #190: Scion of the Times
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Its misaligned version picks Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Saddam Hussein.
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Benjamin Breen.
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I love that Oliver Cromwell gets an invite from both the good talkie and the evil talkie.
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88:11Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Three of those dinner parties sound pretty great.
Oct 2: OpenAI Fires Safety Staff; Anthropic Targets November IPO
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9:56speaker_0HOST
Nobody has reproduced the scores yet, and the hosted version of Clef costs almost six times as much as Jev.
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Benjamin Breen, a historian at UC Santa Cruz, used Claude Opus 5.5 to search the digitized archives of the Dutch East India Company.
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The agent found what appears to be a previously unnoticed ship's log from 1615 that describes sailors catching dodos on Mauritius.
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Breen checked the scholarly literature and believes the record is new.