2026-09-10
People are more worried about AI x-risk than they let on
At least across my circles and semi-random members of the public, which suggests in general. My Twitter:Here on Substack:Americans I polled via Positly: Discuss
I Built A Tool To Detect AI Video (You Can Have It)
AI video is getting REALLY hard to spot… So I tried to build a tool that could detect it for me. Want to run it yourself? Here's the GitHub link:...
Building up a battle
ILM VFX supe Russell Earl and ILM anim supe Kevin Martel examine the third act battle in 'The Electric State'. The post Building up a battle appeared first on befores...
Anomalo
Your data is always talking. Don't miss what it's saying. Discussion | Link
2026-09-09
Can a superintelligence do THAT?
(From the vast heaps of discarded material from my 2024 attempts at drafts for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".)Welcome to today's quiz show: Can a superintelligence do THAT?With us...
Decades Later, US Army General George S. Patton’s Line on Defeat Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
"You're never beaten until you admit it." George S. Patton said it, and Sicily is where it was tested — two slapped soldiers in evacuation hospitals nearly ended his career,...
Xbox Gets Exclusive Call of Duty Gun Skin PlayStation Players Can't See
The latest battle in the console wars is happening in Call of Duty, where Xbox players are getting a gun skin that looks different on every other plat
Final research agenda #3: towards automated Husserlian CEV
Previously: "A research agenda for the final year", "Final research agenda #2: first sketch of a plan". The last post in this "sequence" was at the end of April. I...
Ikea made a Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a sentient shelf named Kallax Storageborn
The mod includes a new quest, companion, and items—and as marketing stunts go, it looks pretty good.
The Royal Navy Confirms the USS Dallas Conducted Simulated Torpedo Attacks on Aircraft Carrier HMS Illustrious in 2013. It Has Never Released the Detection Timeline, the Firing Solutions, or the Umpire’s Assessment.
In September 2013 the American attack submarine USS Dallas got inside the protective screen around the Royal Navy carrier HMS Illustrious in the Gulf of Oman. The carrier had the...
A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11...
A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”
Have deranged conspiracy theories actually exploded? The short answer: probably not.
This is cross-posted from my Substack.“There’s been a massive explosion of deranged conspiracy theories. It’s because of social media / right wing populism / misinformation / [fill in your favorite...
The Strange Horror of Quantum Eternity | Divided By Infinity
#sponsored Taking care of your health just got easier, thanks to my sponsor Zocdoc — start here at: https://zocdoc.com/quinnsideas There are countless ways you could die today. A blood vessel...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
SpyCloud 2026 Identity Threat Report Finds Non-Human Identities Are Now the Leading Path
Ninety-five percent of organizations believe they have visibility into their AI and machine identity exposures, yet only 36% are actually monitoring them.
Constitutional AI Widens Narrow Secret Loyalty of LLMs
TL;DRRecent work has shown that it is possible to instill Secret Loyalties in models, which trigger them to output responses favoring a certain principal(ex: a politician, a corporate entity etc)...
Recurrent KV-cache sharing may undermine the bounded-depth argument for CoT monitorability
Recent discussion of recurrent-depth/looped transformers (especially in the context of OpenAI's Astra model) has mostly focused on the number of recurrent passes per token. The usual reassurance is that if...
Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux...
Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”
Fighting scope and frame control from the frontier-labs
Leniency toward the frontier AI labs' communication and scientific output, as described below, is an inapt mindset at the current stage of the AI race. Stakes are too high, the...
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