2025-04-27
Trump-appointed lawyer threatens to revoke Wikipedia's non-profit status, putting the online encyclopedia in jeopardy
Is Wikipedia spreading propaganda? Don't ask Ed Martin
Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30
More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.
Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice
Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still quite bad at giving financial advice. AI experts Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the...
Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
Published on April 27, 2025 4:17 PM GMTOur universe is probably a computer simulation created by a paperclip maximizer to map the spectrum of rival resource‑grabbers it may encounter while...
Questions for old LW members: how have discussions about AI changed compared to 10+ years ago?
Published on April 27, 2025 4:11 PM GMTI wasn't on LessWrong 10 years ago, during the pre-ChatGPT era, so I'd like to hear from people who were here back in...
Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us
Like how the Earth keeps the Moon bound on a gravitational tether, our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), is surrounded by a bunch of tiny satellite galaxies. But...
The case for multi-decade AI timelines [Linkpost]
Published on April 27, 2025 3:31 PM GMTSo this post is an argument that multi-decade timelines are reasonable, and the key cruxes that Ege Erdil has with most AI safety...
Inside Christopher Kelly’s Mission to Redesign Global Finance from the Ground Up
Christopher Kelly, Co-Founder of droppGroup, is leading a quiet revolution in finance by building droppOne—a scalable, AI-integrated blockchain platform enabling sovereigns and enterprises to tokenize real-world assets, unlock dead capital,...
Uber Is Being Accused of Something Incredibly Sleazy
When it comes to trailblazing skeevy new business models, no one's doing it quite like Uber. The company hasn't just modernized management — it's totally automated it, all while using...
After Internet Dependency
Published on April 27, 2025 8:18 AM GMT ChatGPT recently introduced improved cross-chat memory, and I've found myself using it a lot more sense then. Everything from helping write components...
How SaaS Companies are Changing Their Approach to Authorization
SaaS companies are moving away from hardcoded authorization, embracing tools like Oso to manage RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and secure LLM chatbots. As data access grows more complex, authorization-as-a-service offers scalable,...
Faisal Al-Monai and the Rise of Tokenized Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Faisal Al-Monai, founder of droppGroup, is revolutionizing Saudi Arabia’s digital landscape with AI-native, blockchain-based infrastructure. From tokenizing national systems to enabling sovereign digital IDs and real-world asset trading, his work...
Mach 6 Bomber? Inside Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Darkstar Vision
Key Points: Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 “Darkstar,” envisioned as a Mach 6+ hypersonic successor to the SR-71, is presented as a potentially practical ISR and strike platform for the modern era....
Instagram Blend Is Supposed to Bring Us Closer, But It’s Doing the Opposite
Instagram has rolled out its new *Blend* feature that sits right inside your DMs. It allows you and your friends to create a shared feed of Instagram Reels, curated based...
My Research Process: Key Mindsets - Truth-Seeking, Prioritisation, Moving Fast
Published on April 27, 2025 2:38 PM GMTThis is post 2 of a sequence on my framework for doing and thinking about research. Start here.Before I get into what exactly...
Government Banning Dye That Gives "Flamin' Hot" Cheetos Their Distinctive Color
From "Flamin' Hot" Cheetos and Fruit Loops to red Gatorade and Mountain Dew's Baja Blast flavor, all of those bizarrely-hued junk food favorites will soon lose their color thanks to...
Canada’s Submarine Crisis: Just 4 Boats for 151,000 Miles of Coastline?
Key Points: Canada faces a critical need to replace its four aging Victoria-class diesel-electric submarines, deemed insufficient for safeguarding the world’s longest coastline. -These second-hand British submarines, acquired in 1998,...
Russia’s Su-33 Aircraft Carrier Fighter Impresses No One
Key Points: The Sukhoi Su-33, Russia’s large carrier-capable fighter derived from the successful Su-27, faces an uncertain future. -Originally designed in the Soviet era for fleet air defense from carriers...
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