2026-08-05
Norms Are Broken Laws
An Introductory ExampleConsider the following unwritten rule:Keep the kitchen clean. Clean after you cook.Consider the following three characters: the unreflective individual, the conscious egoist, and the rational moralist.[1]The unreflective individual...
August is the calm before the storm for this year's new game releases
It's Star Wars Zero Company, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Gamescom month.
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first
AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first
Various Ways to Enable People
There seems to be one type of work that truly matter: Work that enables people. Most work can be fitted into this category, such as teaching, maintenance (of things that...
Chris Pratt's 157-Minute Action Thriller Changed Hollywood Forever, and It's Streaming Now on Netflix
Before Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt proved his action-star potential in Zero Dark Thirty, now streaming on Netflix.
Ordinary Matter Is Just 5 Percent of the Universe. On 30 August NASA Launches a 300-Megapixel Telescope Built to Map the Other 95.
Everything astronomers can see directly — stars, planets, gas, dust, people — accounts for about five percent of the universe. Roughly 27 percent is dark matter and 68 percent is...
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side...
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side...
Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'
The budget blew out, and so did the scrutiny of executives.
The AI Race is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma
Statement on AI use: AI models (mostly Fable 5 and Opus 5) were extremely helpful in 1. iterating through lots of variations on the game theory models presented, 2. helping...
Dover MCP
Run your hiring process from Claude or ChatGPT Discussion | Link
‘I Called Her the Missile Battleship’: US Navy Nuclear Cruiser USS Virginia Was Built for a Fight With the Soviet Navy
USS Virginia entered the Navy's nuclear-ship recycling program at Puget Sound in 1999 and was taken apart. One piece of her survived: a 43,000-pound Mk 26 twin-arm launcher, half of...
The Drones Are Hitting Moscow: Ukraine Is Turning Russia Into One Big Target
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses killed five people and wounded ten,...
Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics
If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots...
★ OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’
A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.
750 Horsepower: A US Army Officer Told US Why the M60A3 Tank Was Ready to Fight Russia
Without the efficacy of the M60A3, there could never have been the Abrams. The M60A3 should go down as an important Cold War relic for the United States and NATO.
Why I think we live in a "simulation"
Epistemic Status: I think each part of this piece is worth engaging with in its own right. I haven't thought as much about whether the ideas presented here add up...
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