2025-05-31
🕹️ I strongly recommend Doom The Dark Ages
My review of the latest Doom game, which absolutely rocks.
The 80/20 playbook for mitigating AI scheming in 2025
Published on May 31, 2025 9:17 PM GMTAdapted from this twitter thread. See this as a quick take.Mitigation StrategiesHow to mitigate Scheming?Architectural choices: ex-ante mitigationControl systems: post-hoc containmentWhite box techniques:...
What Kind of Tech Does 'Cop Con' Have? Cigarrete Carton Trackers, Peacekeeper Batons, and More
Nearly 700 companies and organizations set up shop in the city convention center’s cavernous exposition hall, pitching their latest products to law enforcement’s top decision-makers.
A bag of worries: tackling overwhelm with LLMs
If you’ve had periods in your leadership journey where you feel like you’re generating more to-do items than you can handle, then you’re not alone. Every day, you might add...
The GOAT of Sekiro has already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign's final boss as its katana-parrying samurai guy
The Executor, or as I like to call him, "Johnny Katanas."
It's not just you: Elden Ring Nightreign's matchmaking is taking forever if it works at all, and there doesn't seem to be a fix—aside from queueing with a full group
FromSoft's suggested fixes so far are "turn it off and on again" and "some weird thing only for PlayStation owners."
Scientists Gene-Hack Spider to Produce Bright-Red Silk
Researchers used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red fluorescent silk. Scientists are hoping that the US Navy and...
How To Delete the Mental Code That Keeps You Average
You can’t become world-class by being a knockoff. And you can’t think clearly with borrowed thoughts.
Global Refining Gridlocks Are the New Deterrent to War
Mutually Assured Refining Capacity (MARC) is a term coined to highlight this overlooked force for global peace. Nations rely on each other’s refineries to meet fuel demands. All-out war would...
The best approaches for mitigating "the intelligence curse" (or gradual disempowerment); my quick guesses at the best object-level interventions
Published on May 31, 2025 6:20 PM GMTThere have recently been various proposals for mitigations to "the intelligence curse" or "gradual disempowerment"—concerns that most humans would end up disempowered (or...
Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark
The shoehorning of AI into everything has programmers at Amazon feeling less like the tedious parts of their jobs are being smoothly automated, and more like their work is beginning...
Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star
A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary star system where a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star...
You got Nightreigned: Elden Ring's spinoff is the most aggravating, player-hostile FromSoft game I've played, but I keep staying up past 3 AM for 'one more run'
It feels like a mod (complimentary). It feels like a mod (derogatory). I kind of hate it. I kind of love it?
Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State
Burned out but too anxious to admit it to your boss? Or are you just bad at knowing when to take a break? In either case, a new device could...
How Epistemic Collapse Looks from Inside
Published on May 31, 2025 4:30 PM GMTThere’s a story — I'm at a conference and cannot access my library, but I believe it comes from Structural Anthropology by Claude...
When will AI automate all mental work, and how fast?
Published on May 31, 2025 4:18 PM GMTRational Animations takes a look at Tom Davidson's Takeoff Speeds model (https://takeoffspeeds.com). The model uses formulas from economics to answer two questions: how...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Into the Dark Forest: Engineering Working DeFi Arbitrage (5/31/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 31, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Usain Bolt Became...
Another Bodybuilder Just Died a Horrible Death
After quitting the bizarre injections that puffed up his muscles, a Russian bodybuilder has become the latest in a long and unfortunate line of pro weightlifters to meet untimely demises....
After Drug Allegations, Elon Musk Arrives at His Own Goodbye Party With a Black Eye and a Bizarre Excuse
In the wake of damning new drug allegations, Elon Musk showed his last day at the White House wearing a black eye and making some very strange excuses. As the...
Progress links and short notes, 2025-05-31: RPI fellowship deadline tomorrow, Edge Esmeralda next week, and more
Published on May 31, 2025 3:20 PM GMTIt’s been way too long since the last links digest, which means I have way too much to catch up on. I had...
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