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2025-04-15

Should AIs be Encouraged to Cooperate?

Published on April 15, 2025 9:57 PM GMTI have an idea for a fairly cheap strategy for slightly reducing the risk of catastrophic harm from AI. This post was inspired...

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A Money Machine: Progressive Democrat AOC Could Run for President 2028

Her Comes AOC 2028? At a time when there are a lot of questions about the road ahead for Democrats, what it might look like, and who might emerge as...

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Some OthelloGPT Circuits

Published on April 15, 2025 6:41 PM GMTtl;drI trained OthelloGPT-small, a 600k param model that predicts legal next moves in 6x6 Othello with 99.3% accuracyI trained attention SAEs and transcoders...

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Zillionaire Girlbosses Astonished by Backlash to Their Frivolous Trip to Space

By many accounts, it was a frivolous PR stunt disguised as a selfless act of supporting the role of women in space travel. Earlier this week, a crew of six...

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Becoming a Bug Bounty Hunter: A Beginner's Guide

Learn bug bounty hunting from scratch! Discover tools, platforms, and tips to start your ethical hacking journey the right way.

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New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things...

New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things she most loves to cook for herself and for friends”. Nosrat is the author of the nearly ubiquitous...

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Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth Bankrupts Data Scrapers

Cloudflare built a maze bankrupting data scrapers. The maze has a 97% success rate. Scraper firms are now shelving their $500K super-tools and hiring **behavioral psychologists.

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The Tu-160 Might Be Russia’s Unreplaceable Supersonic Bomber

Summary and Key Points: The Tu-160 Blackjack is Russia’s supersonic strategic bomber, vital to its nuclear capabilities despite an aging fleet of just 13-16 aircraft. -Originally designed as a Soviet...

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Swamped Skies

Photographer Joshua Rozells on his photo of our increasingly crowded night skies: The light pollution caused by satellites is quickly becoming a growing problem for astronomers. In 2021, over 1700...

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Zuckerberg Encourages Theatergoers to Use Their Phones While Movie Is Playing

Uncontented with turning Facebook and Instagram into right-wing hellscapes, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now actively rallying theatergoers to use their accursed smartphones when they're at the movies.  

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TermMax Announces Mainnet Launch –Revolutionizing DeFi Borrowing And Lending

TermMax is set to redefine decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering the most efficient leverage solution - fixed-rates borrowing and lending with a single click. The extended features include one-click looping...

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OpenAI rewrote its Preparedness Framework

Published on April 15, 2025 8:00 PM GMTNew PF: blogpost, pdf. Old PF: pdf.My tentative overall take: relative to the old PF it's thinking more clearly about how evals and...

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ASI existential risk: Reconsidering Alignment as a Goal

Published on April 15, 2025 7:57 PM GMTA post by Michael Nielsen that I found quite interesting. I decided to reproduce the full essay content here, since I think Michael...

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What happens when Models Learn New Things? Principles to continually learn forever as north star.

Published on April 15, 2025 6:38 PM GMTCheck out our new paper, to be a Spotlight at ICLR 2025 in Singapore: How New Data Permeates LLM Knowledge and How to...

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What happens when LLMs learn new things? & Continual learning forever.

Published on April 15, 2025 6:38 PM GMTCheck out our new paper, to be a Spotlight at ICLR 2025 in Singapore: How New Data Permeates LLM Knowledge and How to...

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David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist?...

David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! “Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in...

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The Mirror Problem in AI: Why Language Models Say Whatever You Want

Published on April 15, 2025 6:40 PM GMTBy Rob TuncksI ran a simple test and uncovered something quietly dangerous about the way language models reason.I roleplayed both sides of a...

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What Happened When This Man Exercised Only One Single Muscle

In a grotesque twist to the online trend of "looksmaxxing," a term referring to male incels looking to maximize their own physical attractiveness, a TikTok user has spent over 160...

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