2026-09-05
A superintelligence bill was just introduced - now is the time to act
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar have drafted a bill to ban superintelligence and pause AI development until a regulatory body is in place. It should not be understated...
On 12 July a Submarine the Royal Navy Sold to Canada for £1 Fired the Torpedo That Sank a Decommissioned US Navy Cruiser
Britain used them four years and let them go for a pound each. Canada spent twenty years and most of a billion dollars making them work. In July one of...
AI Librarians Lower the Bar for Sharing Your Writing
Bad Advice"The gatekeepers have gone," everyone goes. . . as though the gatekeepers were some sort of terrible inhibition to doing anything good. . . Lacking those gatekeepers now, it's...
513 Years Later, Everyone Still Quotes Half of Machiavelli’s Most Famous Sentence. The Half Nobody Quotes Is the Warning: Be Feared, But Never Hated
Fear was never presented as a goal, only as a bond stronger than affection, and the moment it breeds hatred it stops securing the ruler and starts recruiting his assassins....
How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
"The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
US Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines Spent 41 Years Idle at the Pier in a Decade. The Navy Paid $230,000 a Day for It.
US Navy nuclear attack submarine USS Pasadena cannot dive, will not be taken apart until late 2028, and remains fully crewed while she waits — one case among the 41...
Celebrate Labor Day by playing Civilization 7 for free
There's actually no connection to Labor Day that I can see, but Civ 7 is free to play until September 10, and it's on sale too.
Announcing Humans in Control: cross-partisan grassroots organizing for AI safeguards ahead of 2028
While HIC’s work is aimed at the broader public, we are posting this announcement here because we expect some readers may be interested in volunteering, donating, or making useful introductions.TLDR: ...
Comfort Zone is coming back this month
Comfort Zone, the podcast I do with Chris and Niléane is coming back later this month! We've had a little time off, which actually was nice, maybe we should take...
OpenAI's Astra alignment claims are dubious and there is good evidence it is misaligned
OpenAI touts Astra as their "most aligned model." I have yet to see convincing evidence that GPT-6 Astra is more aligned than Sol, and I cannot rule out that it...
The M1 Abrams SEPv3 Is the Best Tank on Earth Tanks to Countless Upgrades. But the Abrams Getting Too Heavy and Reached Its Limits
The M1 Abrams SEPv3 is the End of the Line: The M1 Abrams is a strong contender for the most advanced tank right now. This is largely due to the...
Hard Truth: China Doesn’t Need the H-20 Stealth Bomber That Tries to Copy the US Air Force B-2 and B-21 Raider
The Xi'an H-20 is a subsonic flying-wing stealth bomber with an estimated unrefueled range near 10,000 kilometers and a payload around 10 tons, nuclear weapons included. It would be a...
10 Near-Perfect Switch Games Nobody Played
The Switch game library is massive, but a lot of people overlook 10 amazing hidden gems.
2026-09-04
What the Iran War Proved About America’s Nuclear Weapons Threat to North Korea
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United States hit roughly 1,000 targets on...
Ban AI Superintelligence Form Letter
My wife and I wrote some letters to our congresspeople about the HuggingFace incident and in favor of the Ban AI Superintelligence Act. In case anybody wants to write their...
'Grand Theft Auto is a videogame franchise built around criminal activity': Miami-Dade County Sheriff comes out hard against a proposed GTA 6 collab with Rockstar
It actually sounds like a really good idea, but of course the cops are against it.
Open Telemetry as a First Metrological Layer for Technical AI Governance
TL;DR:Researchers and leaders at frontier labs are increasingly calling for the collective development of governance tools to pace the frontier of AI development.Current on-chip GPU telemetry could provide a starting...
A layman-friendly summary of alignment research and its difficulties
tl;dr: AI Safety has an extremely minor share of resources in AI, current approaches developed by labs are not satisfactory, current “safe by design” or “guaranteed safe” approaches are still...
Does progress in AI safety require progress in AI capabilities?
Executive SummaryLeaders of frontier AI labs argue that building more capable models is a prerequisite for progress on AI safety. Critics argue that the two are largely decoupled, and that...
[Cross-post] Five Misunderstandings About AI’s Labor Impacts
[Co-authored with Seyed M. Hosseini; cross-posted from my Substack. We'd be grateful for feedback.]It can be surprisingly difficult to think about AI’s labor impacts. Motivated by having made our own...
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