2026-03-15
LLM Misalignment Can be One Gradient Step Away, and Blackbox Evaluation Cannot Detect It.
Models that appear aligned under black-box evaluation may conceal substantial latent misalignment beneath their observable behavior.Let's say you downloaded a language model from Huggingface. You do all the blackbox evaluation...
Bridge Thinking and Wall Thinking
There are a couple of frames I find useful when understanding why different people talk very differently about AI safety - the wall, and the bridge.A wall is incrementally useful....
Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)
TL;DR: SAIGE is a national research and field-building initiative, started in January 2026. We believe that Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by...
Blue Ridge-Class: The U.S. Navy’s Most Important Warship You Never Heard Of
Christian D. Orr, Senior Defense Editor and national security veteran, provides a deep-dive analysis of the Blue Ridge-class command ships. While they lack the kinetic "punch" of a carrier strike...
Self-Recognition Finetuning can Reverse and Prevent Emergent Misalignment
TL;DREmergent Misalignment (EM) is correlated with model identity, we find two pieces of evidence for this:EM suppresses self-recognition capabilities. Multiple models lose their ability to recognize their own outputs after...
Leopard 2 Verdict: Why Germany’s Vaunted MBT is Facing a Reputational Crisis in Ukraine
Christian D. Orr, a Senior Defense Editor and former Air Force Security Forces officer, evaluates the polarizing combat record of the Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) in Ukraine. Once...
Rebuilding CRM Truth From Noisy Events
See how deal_id, canonical state labels, and time-weighted edges turn messy CRM events into a process model you can trust.
Hope Is Not a Strategy in Fintech
Payment gateways across multiple African markets went dark at 2:47am on January 1. The shift from mid-level to senior engineering thinking happens when you stop asking “will this work?” and...
The U.S. Navy Spent $22 Billion on the Littoral Combat Ship And Got Busted Warships They Can’t Use
Brandon J. Weichert, Senior National Security Editor at 19FortyFive, delivers a scathing post-mortem of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Dubbed the "Little Crappy Ships" by the sailors who manned...
Mini-Munich Succeeds Where KidZania Fails
This post is part of a larger exploration (not yet finished, but you can follow it at minicities.org) on whether a permanent miniature city could replace school. Tentatively, I think...
The U.S. Navy’s Railgun Is Trying To Make the Ultimate Comeback
Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense researcher and analyst, evaluates the "electromagnetic resurrection" of the U.S. Navy’s railgun program. After the program was officially shelved in 2021 following a $500...
Query Memory
One API for all documents your AI agents need Discussion | Link
Optimal (And Ethical?) Methods To Find "Optimal Running"
Epistemic Status: The central quote of this essay is just pure slop, of course. But argument screens off authority (or lack thereof), and I was genuinely curious about the object...
Firecrawl First, Bing Second: A Safer Way to Enrich Company Data
A deep look at a Firecrawl-first company research pipeline that falls back to Bing, resolves identity early, and makes enrichment auditable.
Concrete Sarcophagus: How Iran is Hardening Taleghan 2 Against U.S. Air Force and Israeli Strikes
Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and expert in military AI, evaluates the strategic "bunker-busting" mystery surrounding the GBU-57B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). Following satellite evidence...
GNU Radio Gets a Makeover With PimpMyGRC
[idealdealy] had a problem. GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of software called PimpMyGRC,...
2026-03-14
Randoom - A challenging yet enjoyable Commodore Plus/4 game has been released! ( Previously for the C64 and MSX )
The news just keeps on coming, as if Defender of the Crown and Deuteros coming as a remake to your PC wasn't enough to whet your appetite, then you might...
'Staying with it' Done Wrong
I was meditating today and noticed quite some over-effort happening. So I did the diligent, spiritually respectable thing: I located it in the body — "pain in my forehead" —...
iFixit’s MacBook Neo Teardown
iFixit: Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts. But...
The different lessons learned using a Mac
Sam Henri Gold: “This Is Not The Computer For You”Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But...
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