2025-04-07
My Journey With the Connect Four Terminal Game
I built a Connect Four game using Test-Driven Development (TDD) with RSpec. It was tough at first, but it helped me write cleaner code and avoid messy bugs. Now I'm...
Rebecca Solnit on the importance of Preaching to The Choir in activism....
Rebecca Solnit on the importance of Preaching to The Choir in activism. “‘Have we thought critically about why we agree?’ It’s a call to go deeper, to question yourself.” It’s...
Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs
The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss.
Paper Highlights, March '25
Published on April 7, 2025 8:17 PM GMTtl;drPaper of the month:Alignment auditing tests methods for detecting hidden objectives in AI systems. Sparse autoencoders, data analysis, and prefills are most effective...
Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers
After turning himself into a laughing stock in the gaming world for blatantly cheating, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hasn't given up the hobby just yet. During a Saturday live stream...
Factory farming intelligent minds
Published on April 7, 2025 8:05 PM GMTStatistically speaking, if you're an intelligent mind that came into existence in the past few years, you're probably running on a large language...
“If we want to bring the world back from the brink, we...
“If we want to bring the world back from the brink, we have to deal with him.” Quick quiz: is that a quote from the latest Mission Impossible movie trailer...
What alignment-relevant abilities might Terence Tao lack?
Published on April 7, 2025 7:44 PM GMT40. "Geniuses" with nice legible accomplishments in fields with tight feedback loops where it's easy to determine which results are good or bad...
Cory Booker Releases Oura Ring Data From His 25-Hour Speech
Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, stood on the Senate floor for over 25 hours last week as he delivered what proved to be the longest speech...
Are there any (semi-)detailed future scenarios where we win?
Published on April 7, 2025 7:13 PM GMTI think there's tremendous value in imagining what the future could look like, in as much detail as possible. Some recent examples: AI-2027,...
Endless CTO Amit Showcases Web3 Genesis Cloud At Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025
Endless Web3 Genesis Cloud is a decentralized intelligent component protocol. Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Chief Technology Officer of Endless, delivered a keynote speech at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025. He...
Tesla’s Cybertruck Is The Auto Industry’s Biggest Flop In Decades
Move over Ford Edsel, Pontiac Aztek, and AMC Pacer, there’s a new automotive flop in town: the dumpster-forward Tesla Cybertruck. After a little over a year on the market, sales...
Austin Chen on Winning, Risk-Taking, and FTX
Published on April 7, 2025 7:00 PM GMTTimothy and I have recorded a new episode of our podcast with Austin Chen of Manifund (formerly of Manifold, behind the scenes at...
My GameBoy Taught Me the Future of Web3 Gaming
TLDR: Like games at my family Christmases, times and technology have changed. We still love Monopoly and Cluedo, primarily due to their lack of technology and simplicity. Similar to Bitcoin...
SpyCloud Research Reveals Endpoint Detection And Antivirus Solutions Miss 66% Of Malware Infections
SpyCloud releases new analysis of its recaptured darknet data repository. 66% of malware infections occur on devices with endpoint security solutions installed. SpyCloud offers integrations with leading endpoint detection and...
Hive Intelligence Launches Mainnet, Joins NVIDIA Inception To Power Next-Generation Crypto AI Agents
Hive Intelligence, a next-generation platform that empowers AI with real-time, multi-chain blockchain data via a robust API, today announced the official launch of its mainnet. The company has also been...
An editorial in Nature: “A brain drain would impoverish the United States...
An editorial in Nature: “A brain drain would impoverish the United States and diminish world science”.
Skateboarder Grinds on Cybertruck
A creative team of skateboarders has finally found a use for Tesla's Cybertruck. A video recently posted to Instagram by skateboarding magazine Thrasher shows professional skater Leo Romero leaping onto...
'Benzinga' News Service That Falsely Reported a Possible 90-Day Break in Tariffs Blames X
The comments falsely attributed to a Trump advisor were repeated by multiple outlets and caused the stock market to briefly jump up.
American College Admissions Doesn't Need to Be So Competitive
Published on April 7, 2025 5:35 PM GMTSpoiler: “So after removing the international students from the calculations, and using the middle-of-the-range estimates, the conclusion: The top-scoring 19,000 American students each...
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