2025-07-30
Pitfalls of Building UDT Agents
Published on July 30, 2025 3:27 AM GMTI've previously argued that UDT may take the Bayesian coherence arguments too far.In that post, I mostly focused on computational uncertainty. I don't...
Cherry brings its MX2A hot-swappable wireless keyboard and graphene fabric mousepad to the United States
Which switch would you choose?
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China proposes new global AI cooperation organisation
Published on July 30, 2025 2:50 AM GMTSHANGHAI, July 26 (Reuters) - China said on Saturday it wanted to create an organisation to foster global cooperation on artificial intelligence, positioning...
Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily...
Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm whose founders have pushed extreme far right rhetoric.” There was *an actual...
Neel Nanda MATS Applications Open (Due Aug 29)
Published on July 30, 2025 12:55 AM GMTTLDR I am looking for people who want to be supervised by me to write a mech interp paper. Apply here now! Due...
Better than logarithmic returns to reasoning?
Published on July 30, 2025 12:50 AM GMTLots of phenomena turn out to have logarithmic returns: to get an improvement, you double effort or resources put in, but then to...
Tesla Diner
24/7 Diner where you can eat, charge, and watch movies Discussion | Link
Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design
Mavrix by Matt Jones is coming for Riders Republic and Descenders' lunch money, but it needs some finetuning.
The many paths to permanent disempowerment even with shutdownable AIs (MATS project summary for feedback)
Published on July 29, 2025 11:20 PM GMTThis is an interim post for feedback produced as part of my work as a scholar at ML Alignment and Theory Scholars Summer...
Elon Musk Scoffs as Rival Waymo Plows Through Car While Driving Wrong Way Down Street
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to ward off critics of his approach to autonomous driving. Many years ago, the mercurial billionaire decided to rely exclusively on cameras — and...
Trailer for Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, a documentary film on...
Trailer for Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, a documentary film on the comic artist who created the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Floot
Build serious apps with AI without getting stuck Discussion | Link
The Strategic Product Manager Path Hiding in Plain Sight
How to grow from roadmap delivery to broader influence — without becoming a people manager
Against racing to AGI: Cooperation, deterrence, and catastrophic risks
Published on July 29, 2025 10:23 PM GMTLeonard Dung and I have a new draft – preprint here & here – arguing against the view that major actors in AI...
2025-07-29
ClueoMCP
The open protocol for AI personality injection Discussion | Link
Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful...
Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”. This skeleton is a whole vibe. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The FBI Is Reportedly Holding the Missing Footage From Outside Epstein's Cell
Despite official insistences to the contrary, insiders say that the US government is in poe
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