2025-04-08
London Working Group for Short/Medium Term AI Risks
Published on April 8, 2025 5:32 PM GMTBackground & MotivationI am a Responsible AI consultant working for a Big 4 consultancy in London. Over the past two years I have...
25 Films to Help Understand the US Today
For The Guardian, the film critic Guy Lodge has complied a list of 25 films that “shed light on the US under Trump”. From the introduction by filmmaker Alex Gibney:...
Quartz Fires All Writers After Move to AI Slop
The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the digital business publication Quartz was sold off and, in the process, its editorial team was almost...
Freedx Secures Key DASP License In El Salvador
Freedx has been granted a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) license by the Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD) in El Salvador. This marks a significant milestone for Freedx that...
Happy 10th birthday to Lit Hub, a site I’ve been reading and...
Happy 10th birthday to Lit Hub, a site I’ve been reading and linking to more frequently over the past few months. “I believe deeply in making our small corner of...
How to get and use Energy Crystals in REPO
Before you can recharge that new Tranq Gun, you'll need a source of power.
China Creates Mocking AI Video of Average Americans Working in Garment Factory
As Americans fret about what their future looks like amidst Donald Trump's heightening trade wars, the people of China have an idea: get used to sweatshops. A wild AI-generated post...
DJ Bart Simpson & The Hood Internet
In a recent episode of The Simpsons, Bart becomes a DJ and KDO favorites The Hood Internet wrote the music and did all of Bart’s mixes. They also made a...
YouTube is conducting a 'platform-wide review' after mistakenly hitting Balatro videos with an age restriction for gambling content
"Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted."
Half-Life 2's 2003 beta reveals the mystery behind a City 17 river that once led players to the foot of the Citadel
Valve once had us spending a lot more time exploring the waterways of City 17.
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact. “Crossing into...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact. “Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take...
Best Huntress starter build in Path of Exile 2
Crossbow zons unite.
Alignment Faking Revisited: Improved Classifiers and Open Source Extensions
Published on April 8, 2025 5:32 PM GMTIn this post, we present a replication and extension of an alignment faking model organism:Replication: We replicate the alignment faking (AF) paper and...
Thinking Machines
Published on April 8, 2025 5:27 PM GMTSelf understanding at a gears levelI think an AI which understands the source of its intelligence at a gears level, and self improves...
Elon Musk Is Now Actively Raging Against the Trump Administration
Billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk is escalating his spat with Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro, who's widely credited for architecting the president's disastrous tariff war. In a series...
How to Intentionally Design Your Org, From Square’s Former CEO
Former Square CEO, AWS's first GM and 12-year Microsoft veteran, Alyssa Henry, walks us through the two crucial considerations for organizational design — your business and your people — and...
On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever. Or,...
On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever. Or, On the Importance of Fact-Checking. “There was only one problem. In almost every salient detail, the story was...
What If Every Alien Civilization Invented AI, and Died Because of It?
ASI could pose an existential risk to all civilizations by evolving past human control, potentially becoming the universal “Great Filter” against intelligent life.
What If AI Is Why We’ve Never Heard from Aliens?
Could AI be the Great Filter? This paper links artificial superintelligence to SETI’s silence and calls for urgent global regulation to avoid extinction.
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