2025-04-10
Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change
You know, cards that actually stay near MSRP.
Disempowerment spirals as a likely mechanism for existential catastrophe
Published on April 10, 2025 2:37 PM GMTWhen complex systems fail, it is often because they have succumbed to what we call "disempowerment spirals" — self-reinforcing feedback loops where an...
Scammers Used OpenAI to Flood the Web with SEO Spam
A new report from SentinelOne exposed the inner workings of AkiraBot, a program that bypassed CAPTCHAs and used AI-generated messages to target 420,000 websites.
⭐ Good Strategy / Bad Strategy - The difference and why it matters
"Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters" by Richard Rumelt is a groundbreaking work that challenges conventional thinking about strategy in business, politics, and beyond. Rumelt argues that...
Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year
As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes, one professor is reminding us the real key to innovation: a well...
How to Avoid Massive Blows When Releasing New Features
Understanding how smoke testing can help you have peace of mind
My day in 2035
Published on April 10, 2025 2:09 PM GMTPartially inspired by AI 2027, I've put to paper a day in one of the more optimistic scenarios I envision which are realistic...
Multibillion-dollar MMO Dungeon Fighter Online is huge in Asia but 'not as well known in the West,' and The First Berserker: Khazan was meant to change that
At GDC 2025, lead actor Ben Starr and the CEO of Neople talk about elevating the "niche" online RPG franchise with a new origin story.
Busy Day at the Airport
Cy Kuckenbaker compressed five hours of landing planes into 30 seconds of video. I love this. A great example of time merge media. (via colossal, which has been killing it...
After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre
My hands-on reveals a return to Amplitude doing what it does best.
Potential Steam Deck prototype spotted in the wilds of eBay with AMD Picasso APU—and an asking price of $3,000
Wilder still, it looks like someone has already bought it.
Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”
Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
Forging A New AGI Social Contract
Published on April 10, 2025 1:41 PM GMTThis is the introductory piece for a series of essays written by AI economists, policy researchers, and political thinkers on the topic of...
Valve Deckard, a long-rumoured standalone VR headset, might not be too far off if these leaked shipping manifests are legit
A standalone HMD from Valve might be just what the VR market needs.
Asteroid That Threatened Earth Shaped Like a Saucer, Scientists Find With Large Telescope
After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like:...
How AI Judges the Accuracy of Its Own Answers
F1@K is a metric used to evaluate the factual accuracy of model responses, focusing on precision and recall of supported facts. The choice of K, the number of facts needed...
Why Experienced Professionals Fail to Land High-Impact Roles (FBB #5)
Published on April 10, 2025 12:46 PM GMTCrossposted on the EA forum and Substack.IntroductionThere are many reasons why people fail to land a high-impact role. They might lack the skills,...
A project to smooth relations with devs
Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama:We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's...
Linkpost to a Summary of "Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition" by Johnson, Karimi, Bengio, et al.
Published on April 10, 2025 11:54 AM GMTIsn't this post a duplicate?I originally posted a link to the paper on Less Wrong.When I decided to write a summary, the default...
Marvel Rivals is launching an 'experimental feature' to help players deal with the game's awful performance and insatiable appetite for RAM
I love Marvel Rivals, but it's optimised like a dog.
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