2025-05-25
Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of dark fantasy to explore
A nice break from all those high fantasy ones you've played.
SR-72 Darkstar Is Coming In at Mach 5 or More
Ever since the famous Lockheed Skunk Works-designed SR-71 Blackbird was retired from US Air Force (USAF) service in 1989, people have been asking what would replace it. Increasingly, the answer...
Saab 37 Viggen Fighter Was Built for War with Russia
The Saab 37 Viggen is an often-underappreciated Cold War fighter. While the world was focused on the arms race between the Americans and the Soviets, Sweeden worked tirelessly to produce...
In defense of shallow technical knowledge
Whenever a new piece of technology comes out (these days, mostly AI) I go to some effort to understand it. Usually I end up writing a post about it, so...
Rude Q&A: The constructive devil's advocate
Nothing clarifies things quite like a hyperactive, all-knowing, all-seeing, real asshole of a devil's advocate beating the living crap out of you.
JAS 39 Gripen Could Give the F-35 a Run For Its Money
On April 6, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri reported that Saab, the manufacturer of the JAS 39 Gripen fighter series, is still in negotiations with Canada about an acquisition of...
Fry the Armor: Israel’s Spike Missile Is A True Tank Killer
The Spike missile system was designed and developed by Rafael in Israel. Originally built for the Israel Defense Forces, the Spike has seen global use and is now in service...
GCAP Fighter For Canada? The F-35 Has Something to Say About That
The United Kingdom’s (UK) participation in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) has prompted other nations’ interest in joining the effort. The UK’s initial GCAP partner nations were Italy and...
Great moments in PC gaming: Getting so badly stuck on an adventure game puzzle I called the developer for a hint
Need help? Pick up the phone. Just 95 cents per minute.
Comparing and contrasting LLMs and the brain
Published on May 24, 2025 11:05 PM GMTThis is largely a repost, with a hopefully more compelling introduction.For about a year, I've thought a lot about ways LLMs do and...
Ways LLMs do and don't seem like the human brain
Published on May 24, 2025 11:05 PM GMTThis is largely a repost, with a hopefully more compelling introduction.For about a year, I've thought a lot about ways LLMs do and...
2025-05-24
On safety of being a moral patient of ASI
Published on May 24, 2025 9:24 PM GMTI have noticed that there are talks around about moral ASI[1]. And I think that to use the word "moral" in relation to...
We Need a Baseline for LLM-Aided Experiments
Published on May 24, 2025 8:52 PM GMTThere has recently been a back-and-forth over Claude 4 Opus:Anthropic: Opus can help people make chemical weapons!Also Anthropic: Don't worry, it's mitigated!Day 1...
★ Idiocy or Jackassery, You Make the Call: Tripp Mickle on Whether Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone Is a Fantasy
My chances of ever landing a job at The New York Times continue to sink.
It's really hard to make scheming evals look realistic
Published on May 24, 2025 7:17 PM GMTAbstractClaude 3.7 Sonnet easily detects when it's being evaluated for scheming. Surface‑level edits to evaluation scenarios, such as lengthening the prompts, or making...
It's hard to make scheming evals look realistic for LLMs
Published on May 24, 2025 7:17 PM GMTAbstractClaude 3.7 Sonnet easily detects when it's being evaluated for scheming on the Apollo's scheming benchmark. Some edits to evaluation scenarios do improve...
Planet of the Cats - a Short Sci-fi Story About aI and Cats
In this short sci-fi story, Laszlo Fazekas explores a future where AI-enhanced cats overthrow humanity—turning cuddly rebellion into a full-blown apocalypse.
You Can Now Talk To Your Repos Thanks to GitHub's MCP Server
GitHub has released a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server as part of its latest GitHub Copilot update. The release marks GitHub’s first implementation of the MCP standard developed by...
Educational Byte: P2P, Distributed & Decentralized –They’re different Things
P2P, distributed, and decentralized describe different ways information and control flow between devices or participants. A P2P setup is one where each device shares and receives resources like files, processing...
Indie Fallout wiki joins forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads
UESP, the Independent Fallout Wiki, and their like are a real breath of fresh air on the 2020s internet.
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