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Anonymous ML Engineer Claims Frontier Labs Hitting Scaling Limits, Facing Existential Threat

Blog author defends letter's authenticity based on specific personal reference

5 Sep 15 3:48 PM · 12d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 5

Nemin, the blogger who published the letter, responds to skeptics by noting the emailer included a final line referencing a game Nemin is tangentially involved in, which he argues is beyond an LLM's capability to generate.

“there was one final line in the email that I cut off, that convinces me that it's was a specifically targeted and human-written mail.”

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