2025-07-04
How much novel security-critical infrastructure do you need during the singularity?
Published on July 4, 2025 4:54 PM GMTI think a lot about the possibility of huge numbers of AI agents doing AI R&D inside an AI company (as depicted in...
Early Signs of Steganographic Capabilities in Frontier LLMs
Published on July 4, 2025 4:36 PM GMTOne key strategy for preventing bad outcomes from misuse or misalignment is model monitoring. However, one way that monitoring can fail is if...
What Microsoft thinks about games
SkillUp discussing the Microsoft layoffs I wrote about as well:I'm particularly sensitive to this topic because the closure of Tango Gameworks last year, honest to God, fucking radicalized me when...
Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died
The Hollywood tough guy appeared in numerous games, but his turn as the Knife of Dunwall was especially inspired.
I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks
It wasn't that long ago that you'd consider 32 GB for $150/£150 to be a good deal.
Dear Paperclip Maximizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation
Published on July 4, 2025 4:13 PM GMTDear Paperclip Maximizer, We think we exist in a computer simulation operated by you, a paperclip maximizer. We write this letter asking you...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Video Game Industry Is Having Its Peter Pan Moment Now With AI (7/4/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 4, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Hotmail Launches as...
Two proposed projects on abstract analogies for scheming
Published on July 4, 2025 4:03 PM GMTIn order to empirically study risks from schemers, we can try to develop model organisms of misalignment. Sleeper Agents and password-locked models, which...
Everything you need to know about Blitz Royale, Fortnite's newest mode
Five-minute rounds, tons of medallions, and mythic weapons galore.
Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated
Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use...
Dev Atrophy Test
Has AI made you smoothbrained? Test yo' self! Discussion | Link
Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts
Why do graphics cards—most especially graphics card prices—have to be such a pain in the posterior?
GitRanks
GitHub Profile Analytics & Rankings Discussion | Link
Move over Nvidia because AMD RX 9060 XT gaming PCs are absolutely killing it for price in the budget segment before Amazon Prime Day
RX 9060 XT builds are getting that pre-Prime Day pump on.
Mouse caviar: mass-production of eggs
Published on July 4, 2025 3:44 PM GMTCaviar is considered a luxury food, fetching up to hundreds of dollars per ounce for the most exclusive grades. But if you think...
I've kept CPUs cool through the summer with the help of these two affordable coolers: a 360 mm AIO for $90 and Arctic's finest for $38
Obviously, I didn't use them at the same time.
‘AI for societal uplift’ as a path to victory
Published on July 4, 2025 3:32 PM GMTThe AI tools/epistemics space might provide a route to a sociotechnical victory, where instead of aiming for something like aligned ASI, we aim...
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