2025-05-19
What if Chinese AI becomes misaligned first?
Published on May 19, 2025 7:35 PM GMTThis is an alternative scenario I wrote for the AI 2027 bounty.The date is January 20, 2033.You are Pete Buttigieg, President of the...
Product Strategy Masterclass from Global Authority on Strategy
Author of "Playing to Win," Roger Martin reveals why 95% of companies fail to build a strategy that actually drives results and how to craft one that wins.
One Year in DC
Published on May 19, 2025 7:46 PM GMTDiscuss
South Korea Doesn’t Need An Aircraft Carrier
Key Points – South Korea has reportedly scrapped its 2021 plan to build a $5 billion, 30,000-ton light aircraft carrier for 20 F-35B stealth fighters. -Instead, Seoul will pursue a...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “He and about 60 other engineers had less than two days to invent a solution using...
★ More Insight and Not-Negativity
I never linked to the viral blog post where Jobs was quoted recommending my article, I never mentioned it in a post, but I *did* acknowledge it, in what is...
Ex-FBI Agent: Elon Musk's Drug Habit Made Him an Easy Target for Russian Spies
Elon Musk's well-documented drug and partying habits made him an easy target for Russian secret service agents spying on him, former FBI agent Johnathan Buma told German television broadcaster ZDF...
America Makes AI Chip Diffusion Deal with UAE and KSA
Published on May 19, 2025 7:10 PM GMTOur government, having withdrawn the new diffusion rules, has now announced an agreement to sell massive numbers of highly advanced AI chips to...
The Navy’s Great Nuclear Attack Submarine Shortage Has No Easy Fix
Key Points – The US Navy faces a critical “submarine deficit,” operating only 53 of the 66 fast attack submarines it requires, a gap projected to persist until mid-century due...
NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles...
NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles (almost 1 light-day) away. They’d been broken for 20+ years and the fix was tricky. “If the heaters...
Why we're still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10 years later
Revisiting the Bloody Baron, Gwent, and everything else that kept us coming back.
China’s J-35A Looks More and More Built to Battle F-22 and F-35 Fighters
Key Points – China’s J-35A stealth fighter, derived from the FC-31, is envisioned as a crucial “coordinator” within its air defense network, designed to enable “kill chains” against advanced threats...
Nine 16-Inch Guns Roar: The Firepower of U.S. Navy Battleship USS Alabama
Key Points – The USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class fast battleship commissioned in 1942, played a significant role in World War II. -Initially tasked with escorting Allied convoys to...
Scientists Thought They Had Spotted Flowing Water on Mars. It Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely.
Images sent back by NASA's Viking spacecraft in the 1970s revealed some highly unusual streaks stretching across the arid landscapes of Mars. The sighting had scientists excited about the possibility...
Haunted looking art director livestreams apology for Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: 'Would write an original comment, but I don't see any good ones to plagarize'
In other not-great signs, the game's tagline has also become a meme about art theft.
[Beneath Psychology] Introduction Part 2: The Solution and What's to Come
Published on May 19, 2025 6:02 PM GMTIn the opening post we introduced a challenge in which you're sitting in a jacuzzi and you have the opportunity to convince a...
US credit rating downgraded, $1T in Gulf state investments in the US, Kurdistan Workers’ Party disbanded | Sentinel Global Risks Weekly Roundup #20/2025
Published on May 19, 2025 5:59 PM GMTExecutive summaryMoody’s downgraded the US credit rating as the US budget deficit grows and US borrowing costs rise. House Republicans are advancing a...
Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win. “Those on...
Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win. “Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That’s why it was striking when she...
What Will History Say About Joe Biden?
How Will Historians Treat the Biden Presidency? – In a shot heard around the world that provoked an outpouring of grief and emotion, former President Joe Biden’s office announced on...
Survey of Multi-agent LLM Evaluations
Published on May 19, 2025 5:42 PM GMTDisclaimer for LessWrong: This is a project I worked on for a college class. I think it’s useful for people working on evaluations...
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