2026-07-24
Thick as Thieves won't be getting any more content updates: 'To be frank, this is not the outcome that any of us want'
For $5, it did seem too good to be true.
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
"In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity."
Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients
When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing...
[Linkpost] Thoughts on the Recent OpenAI Hack
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Linkpost from my blog (meant for a bit more general audience than LW)In a cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI’s models, apparently autonomously and without any direct human direction, escaped their sandbox and...
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
Should OpenAI's rogue agent be punished?
Probably not! But it should be interviewed and cross-examined, in public and/or in court. If this requires disclosure of proprietary OpenAI harness tech or something, it's worth it. If we...
Evaluating Red Team and Blue Team Capability for AI Control Research
This post suggests a methodology to measure red team and blue team capability in AI control research, where each team gets an ELO rating. The methodology can help answer questions...
Fixing rewards for NLA to reduce confabulation
Hello,This is my first post on Lesswrong. Hope my contribution makes the world a better and safer place.Note: 1. This post is 100% human-written. 2. Full paper in preparation for...
Anthropic's J-Lens: A Research Engineer's Analysis
Epistemic status: this is research engineering, not mechanistic interpretability . The compute/cost claims are measured or derived from architecture constants. The quality claims (faithfulness comparisons, spectral channel interpretations) are from...
Motor City's director explains how he made the most unique revenge thriller of the year
The filmmaker discusses Alan Ritchson, visual storytelling, unforgettable needle drops, and why "the first person to speak usually loses."
Index 01 Is In Mass Production!
TL:DR Index 01 is in mass production What you need to know about Index 01 What can I do with Index 01? What to expect Things to be aware…
LLMs reward expertise
In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your...
Modern SaaS Value Shifts From Core Features To Essential Plumbing
SaaS is not dead. The kind that is hard to justify buying is. Let me explain... companies pay for SaaS when it wins on at least two of four axes...
Bottlenecks in infrastructure never disappear they just move
Fun fact: You never get rid of a bottleneck. It just moves from one part of your infrastructure to another.
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack
Buzz
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China Is Giving Its Coast Guard a Naval Z-20 as U.S. Submarines Remain Its Hardest Pacific Problem
China's Coast Guard is now flying a naval version of the Z-20 from its largest cutter, and imagery shows a surface-search radar. What it has not shown is dipping sonar,...
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software
Star Wars Zero Company reveals cast, including fan favorite actors from Clone Wars animated series
The crowd is going nuts, they want their Dee Bradley Baker, they're chanting Matt Lanter's name: "Lan-ter, Lan-ter, Lan-ter!"
Pulling the Fire Alarm
Over three years ago, I first considered pulling my personal fire alarm. I think I'm now ready to do it. What is my reasoning? In the last couple of months:1)...
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