2026-03-08
Cooperation Without Kindness or Strategy
A monastery is shut down for tax evasion. The two monks who handled the books are in separate interrogation rooms. The police offer each the same deal: testify against the...
Hiding a Bomb in Plain Sight
You are at war. Trains are key to keeping your army supplied with fuel, ammunition, food, and medical supplies. But, inexplicably, your trains keep blowing up. Sabotage? Enemy attack? There’s...
The State of AI Translation in 2026: iFlytek Real-Time Translation Earbuds
There are a lot of translation tools available today, and most of them are free. Open your phone, launch Google Translate, and you already have a perfectly functional solution in...
Why Many Ambitious (and Altruistic) People Probably Undervalue Their Happiness
Lightly adapted from the EA Forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bDX2fWA7pzxCEMEG8/why-many-eas-probably-undervalue-their-happinessI had a draft of this post sitting around since 2022 so I thought that it'd be best to post this instead of allowing...
The current SOTA model was released without safety evals
TL;DR: OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro on March 5, 2026. GPT-5.4 Pro is likely the best model in the world for many catastrophic risk-relevant tasks, including biological research...
How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible
This essay is adapted from Traversal. On April 5, 1815, as Napoleon is assembling his troops for the Battle of Waterloo, where he would meet his final defeat, the lieutenant-governor...
The U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class Nuclear Attack Submarines Summed Up in 1 Word
Summary and Key Points: The Los Angeles-class (688i) fast-attack submarine remains the cornerstone of U.S. undersea power in 2026, comprising nearly half of the Navy’s 50-boat attack fleet. -Through the...
The ‘Super’ F-22 Raptor Could Be the Best U.S. Air Force Fighter Ever
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and tech CEO, evaluates the $11 billion “Super Raptor” upgrade package transforming the F-22 into a...
Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill
The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.
Hundreds of Tomahawk Missiles Gone: The U.S. Navy’s Ohio-Class SSGN Submarine Crisis Is Coming
The USS Ohio-class SSGNs, the most heavily armed conventional submarines in history, are entering their final decommissioning window as of 2026. Capable of unleashing 154 Tomahawk missiles from a single...
An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
How Donald Trump Can Still Achieve Regime Change in Iran
Ambassador John R. Bolton, former National Security Adviser to President Donald J. Trump, evaluates the strategic "politico-military" landscape of Operation Epic Fury as of March 7, 2026. While the U.S.-Israeli...
Databases Were Not Designed For This
There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed.
How the Chornobyl NPP Got Modernized in the 1990s
During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation with its...
SkyReels-V4 Fixes the Most Uncanny Part of AI Video: Bad Sound Sync
SkyReels-V4 generates video and audio together, fixing uncanny timing issues like lip-sync drift and mismatched impacts—without massive compute.
How to Recommend at 10,000 Clicks Without Melting GPUs
HyTRec splits long histories: linear attention learns stable taste, softmax captures recent intent—fast, accurate recs even at 10k interactions.
2026-03-07
Pulse
Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted Discussion | Link
Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
A recent blog post from Valve made it sound like the launch could slip into 2027.
Mitigating collusive self-preference by redaction and paraphrasing
tldr: superficial self-preference can be mitigated by perturbation, but can be hard to eliminateIntroductionOur goal is to understand and mitigate collusion, which we define as an agent’s failure to adhere...
‘npx workos’
My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring this week at DF. npx workos is a CLI tool, replete with cool ASCII art, that launches an AI agent, powered by...
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