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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
A Friendly Introduction to SVG
A Friendly Introduction to SVG This SVG tutorial by Josh Comeau is fantastic. It's filled with newt interactive illustrations - with a pleasing subtly "click" audio effect as you adjust...
Peak dev would rather you pirate Peak than play a 'microtransaction Roblox slop ripoff'
Cliff, a Roblox clone of Peak, is unashamed.
Prioritize Happiness When Changing Jobs
If you’re considering a job or career change, it’s normal to feel paralyzed by fear of the unknown. But research points to a few practical strategies that can help assuage...
Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 5 (#1508)
Heaps of Wordle help, ready to go.
Qwen-Image
Stunning images and perfect text Discussion | Link
Fresh Fruit Tourism
Published on August 5, 2025 2:31 AM GMTAs incomes have risen, it's important for Americans to find new ways to spend ever-increasing amounts of money. I propose that we spend...
Do LLMs have a conscience? Investigating model ethics under pressure
Published on August 5, 2025 12:32 AM GMTThis work was done by me and Joshua Lum over roughly 1 week as part of the first run of RECAP, a Singapore-based...
“Momentism”: Ethics for Boltzmann Brains
Published on August 5, 2025 2:09 AM GMTIf[1] you’re a Boltzmann brain, you should probably just enjoy the moment.This is probably true not just from an obvious standpoint, but from...
Human Augmentation Summit at MIT Media Lab | August 23 | Augmentation Lab
Published on August 5, 2025 1:43 AM GMTThe LessWrong community is invited to join us on August 23, 2025, at the MIT Media Lab for a full-day summit exploring the...
Pro AI Bots Scraping List Archives
Published on August 5, 2025 1:20 AM GMT I'm on various mailing lists, and the archives are a trove of niche knowledge. A dance calling list I'm on is considering...
AI Optimization, not Options or Optimism
Published on August 5, 2025 1:07 AM GMTThis post is a response to Eric Drexler's recent article, "AI Options, not ‘Optimism‘", and his ideas as I understand them in general.Control...
Larian says it's going to expand the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit 'to give you even more freedom,' so there goes another 100 hours I've lost to modding
I just learned how to make freckles for my Tav, but I'll catch up eventually.
You Are Moving Out Of Your Reference Class
Published on August 5, 2025 12:20 AM GMTThe idea to write this article emerged from some of my discussions with fellow rationalists, transhumanists, and AI safety researchers about what to...
AI Thing
AI tool for all to run complex tasks in parallel Discussion | Link
Steering LLM Agents: Temperaments or Personalities?
Published on August 5, 2025 12:40 AM GMTAuthor: Skylar DeTureReading time: ~8-10 minutesEpistemic status: Speculative framework building on established psychology research and recent Anthropic findingsAbstract: I propose a three-layer framework...
OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Missed Signs of Delusions in Users Struggling With Mental Health
After months of providing the same copy-pasted response amid mounting reports of AI-induced psychosis, OpenAI has finally admitted that ChatGPT failed to recognize clear signs of its users struggling with...
People are flipping out over recoil in Battlefield 6 because of one gun specifically designed to have no recoil in real life
A clip of a particularly laser-beamy gun in Battlefield 6 is giving folks the wrong impression.
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication
With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs...
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