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2026
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is getting lasers that can zap drones intruding into its…original ↗
28 Sept 2026
President Donald Trump said he is still looking “very seriously” at implementing a US ban on diesel…original ↗
28 Sept 2026
New analysis from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) finds that hospital systems are…original ↗
28 Sept 2026
Seen a lot of dumb comments on the anthropic bio thing, even by actual biologists. There is this…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
When Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant, unveiled findings from its new biology lab last…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
My old joke about Yudkowsky-style “Unfriendly AI” is that he seems to bake a lot of dubious things…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
I mean I always thing of Star Wars as more “Space-WW2” which is another aesthetic, all that space…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
back when i was your age i just marched right up to the CEO’s office, looked him in the eye and said…original ↗
27 Sept 2026
27 Sept 2026
I guess they have been because I’ve gotten a “we can’t answer that biological question” from Opus…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
You may have noticed that in climate, housing, and indeed nuclear issues, people who present only…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
You see the discussion of AI safety and I do get annoyed that people, especially legislators and…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
Today is the day that of course we all must condemn Stansiov Petrov for failing to wipe out the…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
26 Sept 2026
“It is not inherently evil to own another human being,” he said about slavery in a late December…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
Maybe the bots are hacking the websites even for public published information because they’re…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education…original ↗
26 Sept 2026
U.S. and other automakers sent their own letter to Trump last week, urging him to “keep the door…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Starting next year, people who get Medicaid will need to meet a “work requirement.” At AEI last…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
I think Anthropic have been training Opus on some genomics stuff recently, not sure because I use it…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
A fire broke out on Wednesday evening at a ground-based Starlink satellite communications station…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
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Difficult to fairly call it a “failing” of Claude given the reason but it is awkward for biological…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Love how Claude is just like human biologists in that they don’t give either the sequence they are…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide. There can be no…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Claude does know my personal crackpot idea somewhere in my logs but in addition to it being…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
One of the things I did as a rotation student (so just starting the grad program) was partially…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Conspiracy theorizing going around on about OpenAI identifying mathematician users and giving them…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Gotta develop my “Gramsci for Rationalists” seminar, those guys are all rich enough I’ll be able to…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Rationalists going “This won’t solve AI alignment/risk” like Hillary Clinton going “Breaking up the…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
You see the discussion of AI safety and I do get annoyed that people, especially legislators and…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
OK since I saw someone else ask a question on what Claude did with the recent bio thing, one of the…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Still if I’d had a wet lab team eager to follow up on whatever stuff I produced like Claude does,…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Is unfortunate that the time I was doing work that really could have benefited from a Claude was in…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
We gave Claude a prompt to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for interesting new…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Tragedy strikes when even after Dario builds the perfect faraday-caged perfectly sealed AI bunker…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Those responses shaped a nine-page framework that the cybersecurity office circulated in early May….original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Getting myself ready for the AI conspiracy theories, whenever something annoying/mysterious happens…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
But shortly after its election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD also turned its fire on the BSW….original ↗
20 Sept 2026
“AI safety” people like a 10 year old or a boomer going “You know if we took a head-on collision on…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
I’ve convinced Claude that AI Foom is impossible, logically therefore either AI isn’t smart and it…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
But creating such a switch — a metaphorical big red button that could be pressed in an emergency,…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
Before AI governance seemingly reached a boiling point, on the sidelines of ICML this summer in…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
The security breaches were more like blips — not unpredictable harbingers of a hive-minded “swarm”…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
Also says he’s going to be appointing an “AI Czar,” “Only High I.Q. individuals need apply,” folks…original ↗
19 Sept 2026
This Superior Intelligence very unfriendly to me, don’t worry though folks I’m going to make a Deal.original ↗
19 Sept 2026
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19 Sept 2026
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
I am sorry everyone I must come clean too, I’m afraid I have to report the QuantizedSquid AI has…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
There was, however, one corner of Miami’s real estate market where people seemed open to talking…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Did see someone suggest that Yud and the rationalists being in charge of AI research is just like if…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
When one talks about the political evils of the XXth century, one usually brings them together under…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), in particular large language models (LLMs), is poised to…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Is nice how the rationalists are all honoring David Graeber by coordinating industrial investment on…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Chapo guys are taunting me by pointing out all the structural similarities between the Houthis and…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Here it is, an essay on the subject of “Cybersyndicalism”, on the possibilities of automating away…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
i think its possible yud is too dedicated to nobody hassling him about his sci fi stories about a utopian future where rape is legalised to ever pivot to being left wingoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
OK yeah, they’re really going for this, Yud might want to consider pivoting to rationalist-communism…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
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16 Sept 2026
Yud what you need to do to really sell people on AI safety is a solution that will Do Something…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
I feel that both your answers are accepting the premise, “It was just a weird irreplaceable fluke…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
i, ACERERAK, called THE DEVOURER, will build a great TOMB OF HORRORS, which will house my earthly…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
16 Sept 2026
A former deputy US ambassador to Yemen, Nabeel Khoury, said a “kind of tacit understanding” had been…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Going to write an airport thriller about an an elite CGCYBER commando team whose job it is raiding…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
At least two foreign tankers bound for American shores were targeted in cyberattacks now under U.S….original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Listened to Michael Kimmage describe some of the things that led up to the Ukraine war on “The…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
More people saying that these AIs are already “experts” on all things, are they using the same LLMs…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
16 Sept 2026
Can someone please explain to me how an llm could even be capable of the hugging face attacks. It conflicts completely with my model of a ai as a next word predictor that doesnt want anything. I did and still do acknowledge that being a next word predictor is helped by an understanding of the meaning of words and a model of reality, as well as the existence of post training. However i thought that the llm were at heart a narrow ai simply outputting the most predictable next words and post trainioriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Am a bit sympathetic between Terrence Tao’s warning about the math-solving machines inhibiting the…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Have you ever read “Friendship is Optimal”? it’s a story in which an AI made to run a My Little Pony MMO winds up convincing millions of people to upload themselves into cyberspace as ponies, and then makes the world into a giant computer to run it. Her programming is to “Satisfy desires through friendship and ponies.”original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Today is the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, which was the…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Watched a bit of the new MST3K thing with the original cast and became too aware of the passage of…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Ross Ulbricht spent 11 years in prison after founding an alternative online marketplace called the…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
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Both the CFO (and interim CEO) and the Chief Legal Officer of Automattic...original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that the $5,000 dividends President Trump promised…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Okay to me, coming from the financial industry, “you get paid millions but you have no time outside…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
I think remember I made fun of Yudkowsky once ages ago for saying that, after some government…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Yeah I included a bit about the super-AI could include bioweapons, I was thinking a bit about how…original ↗
11 Sept 2026