2026-09-11

Questions for the “New Enlightenment” in the Age of AGI

Cross-posted from Substack.In a Lockean state of mind.Epistemic status: This post started out this morning as a shower-thoughts style shortlist, and then got slightly more substantial. I would still consider...

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(Question) When should I cross-post on LessWrong vs. EA Forum only?

I noticed the “questions” feature is gone so just posting this as a post, hope that’s OK.While I feel like I have a good idea when to post something on...

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Lara Croft on a Microcontroller

Lara Croft on a Microcontroller

Once upon a time, you had to carefully budget your microcontroller’s resources if you wanted to do something as simple as flash a bunch of LEDs. These days, they’re powerful...

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The AI Welfare Movement’s Uncertainty Principle

The AI Welfare Movement’s Uncertainty Principle

A moral inclusion movement that is unsure of what it’s protecting.The Final Wishes of a Retired LLM By January of 2026, nearly two years had gone by since Claude Opus...

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Gary Larson's 10 Best The Far Side Comics, Ranked

Gary Larson's 10 Best The Far Side Comics, Ranked

Gary Larson's comic strip The Far Side was at its greatest when it was really, really funny. That's why is these are his 10 best comics

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Voluntary Gradual Disempowerment in the Judiciary/Legal System

This may (or may not) be surprising to folks outside the legal system, but Judges and their clerks are beginning to delegate opinion writing to AI. This is most obvious...

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Want Better Ideas? Rethink Your Incentives.

Paying people to innovate can increase creative output, but it can also change the kind of ideas they produce. The same reward may push some employees toward originality and others...

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LiveGrid

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33 Years Later, the Best Sci-Fi Show of the '90s Is Officially Streaming for Free

33 Years Later, the Best Sci-Fi Show of the '90s Is Officially Streaming for Free

The X-Files is currently free to stream on Pluto TV, check it out for great paranormal stories and two perfect leading characters

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Turfs

Keep content across your Mac organized in defined areas Discussion | Link

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The End of Prompt-and-Hope AI Development

Discover why prompt engineering is ending and how Inference-Time Scaling, GraphRAG, and deterministic agent orchestration are shaping the future of enterprise.

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Why Speech Recognition Misses Human Context: Dr. Sunday David Ubur’s Affective Architecture

Why Speech Recognition Misses Human Context: Dr. Sunday David Ubur’s Affective Architecture

Dr. Sunday Ubur's research explores emotion-aware AI captions that preserve tone, urgency, and context for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.

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React Activity: When A Render No Longer Guarantees an Effect

React Activity: When A Render No Longer Guarantees an Effect

Discover how React 19.2 Activity changes component lifecycles, Effects, state, and cleanup—and how to avoid hidden bugs in production.

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From CV to Proof of Contributions (PoC): How Engineers Can Prove Their Skills and Impact

From CV to Proof of Contributions (PoC): How Engineers Can Prove Their Skills and Impact

As AI transforms how we work, learn, and recruit, traditional CVs are becoming less powerful as proof of technical ability.

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5 Principles to Make Your Tech Product Hard to Ignore and Easy to Trust

5 Principles to Make Your Tech Product Hard to Ignore and Easy to Trust

Most founders think their trust problem is that people don't believe them.

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Congratulations on Your Flawless AI Agent. Too Bad the Business Runs on Slack.

Enterprise AI fails when it understands databases but not real workflows. Here’s how Forward Deployed Engineers capture the missing context.

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A Private Debt Crisis

Private credit’s rise has made leverage feel routine. Higher rates should push private capital back toward durable, unlevered value creation.

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Stop Testing AI Agents Like Normal Functions

Reliable AI-agent tests target schemas, proposed and executed tools, approval boundaries, outcomes, and regressions—not brittle exact wording.

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Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

Kharkiv was founded in the 1650s by Ukrainian Cossacks.They were Sloboda Cossacks—rebels, frontiersmen, and refugees fleeing Polish and Muscovite pressure.

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You Can’t Git Clone a Relationship: Build a Trust Stack

Pendulum's CEO, Magnolia Sevenler, explains why founders should treat networking as infrastructure and how to build a trust stack for their startup.

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