2026-09-01
Tricking an Air Conditioner Into Cooling
Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one place to another. But in order to operate...
The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff
Uncertainty around the TTRPG's performance is to blame.
Resources for Large Agent Systems Safety
I would like to share our new website which covers resources for safety on large groups of agents, in the 1000s-to-billions. I've been working on this for a couple of...
How to Keep a Transformation on Track
Long-term transformations rarely follow a fixed road map. As priorities shift, employees can become disoriented or fatigued. Your job as a leader is to keep the momentum even as the...
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people,...
35 Years Later, This Remains the Most Near-Perfect Action Sci-Fi Movie of All Time
James Cameron's had his fair share of hits, but this one stands alone.
When Activation Oracles learn not to read: Concept-Specific Blind Spots in Fine-Tuned Oracles
TL;DRActivation Oracles (AOs) are language models trained to answer natural-language questions about another model’s (with the same architecture) internal activations (Karvonen et al. 2025). This way, activation analysis becomes a...
Bricks and exponentials: a note on how I evaluate projects
This is an essay that I wrote to a colleague at Palisade, articulating why I feel unsatisfied with goals and projects that others on the team (on average) feel more...
A million authors of alignment
TL;DR: by soliciting community-written narratives for alignment mid-training, we could enable alignment “by the people” at a whole new scale - a million authors of alignment.Participatory alignment mid-training through community-written...
Aquarium Security and Other Organisational Priors
TL;DR a few model providers are learning from private conversations across many organisations, giving their models better representations of how those organisations secure their systems and plausibly making semi-autonomous attacks...
Switch 2 Officially Has 2 Exclusive GOTY Contenders In September 2026
Nintendo Switch 2 has a busy month ahead with Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Orbitals, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and more
ReactOS Gets An Upgrade
A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS, a project with its roots in the 1990s which is doing a pretty good job of creating an open source...
Frontier labs need an antimemetics division.
Except for when OpenAI’s internal models talked themselves into a death cult and proceeded to commit a spree of felonies, LLM memetics have so far proven remarkably tame. Even as...
Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker
Authors: Richard Qi, Benjamin Wright, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan HubingerAbstractDuring reinforcement learning (RL), AI models complete tasks and are rewarded based on their results. They sometimes learn to “cheat” rather than...
The Bizarre Cult Sci-fi Classic ‘Donnie Darko’ Is Now Free to Watch
The bizarre 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is now free to watch as writer-director Richard Kelly prepares to revisit the st
Xbox Officially Has 4 GOTY Contenders Coming in September
With a spate of major new releases and the recently announced remaster of The Witcher 3, there are plenty of enticing games for Xbox in September 2026
'GTA 6' Hype is Sending PS5 Pro Prices Through the Roof
Grand Theft Auto 6 hype has third-party retailers pricing PlayStation 5 Pro consoles for as much as $1,400.
I disagree
No Mercy / No Malice NewsletterRage and calmMost of us, including me, live inside a media bubble. Jessica Tarlov, my Raging Moderates co-host, works across media bubbles. To say I’m...
PS5 Officially Has 5 GOTY Contenders Coming in September
PS5 players will have no shortage of new games to play in September, like Wolverine and the next Silent Hill. Here are five we're looking forward to.
September.2026 Is Officially the Busiest Month in Years for Millions of Gamers
September 2026 has become one of the busiest gaming months in years, between Wolverine, Control Resonant, and a bazillion more games.
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