2026-05-01
★ On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform
It’s certainly possible that this Vision thing isn’t going to work out and Apple *will* throw in the towel on it. But that hasn’t happened, and if it does, it’s...
The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which...
The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and...
Robot Watch: The weirdest and wildest things bots did this month including self destructing, playing ping pong, and pooping NFTs
Robots may someday dominate our world. Let's keep an eye on them.
Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal
Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal The latest version of OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent adds their own version of the Ralph loop: you can now set a /goal and Codex...
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus...
The salad market mystery
It often happens that I desire kale, but I want it to be clean and cut up, and while shops do sell this product by the bucketload, they are actually...
AI risk was not invested by AI CEOs to hype their companies
I hear that many people believe that the idea of advanced AI threatening human existence was invented by AI CEOs to hype their products. I’ve even been condescendingly informed of...
AI risk was not invented by AI CEOs to hype their companies
I hear that many people believe that the idea of advanced AI threatening human existence was invented by AI CEOs to hype their products. I’ve even been condescendingly informed of...
Vibe signaling externalities and the people-to-places pipeline
People are sending signals all the time, and those signals are to my knowledge usually about themselves: they are smart, or kind, or attractive, or not naive, or have their...
How much should the ideal person cry wolf?
It is a fact about wolves and rationality that you should warn people about wolves quite a few times for every effective wolf attack. In particular, there is an asymmetry...
Sleep puzzle system
Here’s an obscure life hack. If (like me) you: Don’t like going to bed, due to it conflicting with keeping on doing thingsWhen in bed, wish you had something more...
Cambridge: the kettle
I arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today with my boyfriend. We have a modest Airbnb apartment, up enough stairs that if you decided to count the flights you would probably have...
AI: cognitive labor glut + new guys
Why is the advent of AI a big deal, and more worrying than previous advents? I think there are actually two interesting things going on, that make AI importantly different...
Manhattan: distance and movement
Last Tuesday I went to a Broadway show, Ragtime. I was in the front row, but surprised by how much the action did not feel real and a few feet...
AI unemployment and AI extinction are often the same
My sense is that people think of AI existential risk and AI unemployment as distinct issues. Some people are extremely concerned about extinction and perhaps even indifferent to total unemployment....
San Francisco: self driving
I’m on a plane heading back to San Francisco. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for most of the years since 2009, and a large fraction of that time the...
Russia Has 27 Tu-22M3 Supersonic Bombers Left. It Cannot Build More
The Tu-22M3 “Backfire” is a Cold War-era long-range bomber used for maritime strike and theater-level missile delivery. A long-time staple of the Russian fleet, the Tu-22 has suffered a 10-15%...
Keel
An AI assistant whose memory belongs to you Discussion | Link
Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities
Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities The UK's AI Security Institute previously evaluated Claude Mythos: now they've evaluated GPT-5.5 for finding security vulnerability and found it to be comparable...
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