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I previously published a question post in which I enquired about whether anyone could present me with counterarguments to the central (and defining, and substance and existence imbuing) claim of Roko's Basilisk, that it…

I'm diving into agentic coding loops to get my organization to automerge more. I know there are a lot of AI code review tools. There are the runtime code review tools, like ito , which give me evidence of features, and s…

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Epistemic status: Personal history anchored to dated records (chat exports, git log, daily notes). Public launch dates are from the vendors' own announcements. My own first-use dates are given to the month and are the ea…

Voice AI often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break.

The Piltdown man was the most successful artifactual hoax of all time. The relevant skull was a chimeric melange of orangutan and human bone fragments from several individuals “discovered” in England in 1912, and meant t…

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

Are we really living through ‘end-times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so. In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak to Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty in an extended interview. From Trump…

I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run power…

I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control. That fact has been lodged in my head, because given its inherent complexity I have trouble imagining a codebase that would benefit from versi…

Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it: Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull…

Tomorrow and Tuesday. If you see this you’re in!

Tomorrow and Tuesday. If you see this you’re in!

The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied with data, connected…

Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text message and do our work, where…

As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challenge Exasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a viral video . “We managed to get rid…

(Epistemic status: I'm not claiming that this is actually how cognition works, but I do claim that it's a useful frame, and one which I find predictive. For and with thanks to NC, IL, and M/T.) You know how sometimes the…

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” — James Clear, Atomic Habits “We cannot improve results ‘directly.’ It can only be achieved by improving those processes [...] that pro…

The King spoke of "threats to our international order" in a letter marking the 10th anniversary of the National Cyber Security Centre.

Is there an existing neural network-based architecture that can hold 3D or 2D representations in its latent space and update it in the same single pass (i.e. not compressing the representation in their final layer to be…

George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must de…

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Dramatic flames from the huge Cairngorms wildfire in July have disappeared - but hot spots can continue to burn beneath the earth.

From Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings in Python it is possible to calculate distance and similarity between two given strings(sentences). And from Levenshtein Distance and Text Similarity in Python to r…

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing” campaign again…

Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.

From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.

Crosspost Once upon a time, public intellectuals routinely made it into the news to discuss political, economic, medical, and scientific issues. To some extent, this is still true, but the appreciation for expertise has…

Nestor Guillen (like many, many others) wrote a blog post reflecting on recent progress in getting AI systems to prove results in pure mathematics: Happy those able to know the causes of things . It contains a nice analo…

Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence…

Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing When Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a glittering ca…

Whether it’s a super-glowy serum or a cult gardening tool, here are our writers’ favourite buys from the past year • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Filter is turning two! To celebrate, we…

Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides For decades, East Fishkill helped build New York’s tech industry. The hamlet, located 70 miles north of New…

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almos…

The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.

Do AI models scale as well with more tokens as humans do with more time? That is, does an AI get the same benefit from 10x the number of available tokens as a human does from 10x the amount of time to do the task? Or mig…

Our reviewer sheds some light on the best dawn simulation alarms, from Lumie and Philips to Dreamegg • The best eye masks to help you sleep better To wake each day in darkness is a plight you wouldn’t wish on your worst…

PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games Publishing This fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility,…

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it…

Meredith Whittaker says the tech has been misunderstood, in an exclusive interview with BBC Global Women.

Epistemic status: I am not a subject-matter expert in any of the fields in this article. The following is speculation, albeit I think reasonable speculation. Cunningham’s Law is why I wrote this essay. AI Disclosure: Cla…

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This post was crossposted to the EA Forum TL;DR: If you enjoy LessWrong (and/or do EA/AI safety field building), you should consider starting a rationality reading group at your university. It’s fun, cheap, a good way to…

Solar tiles were touted as an attractive alternative to solar panels - why have they not taken off?

Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve probl…

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theran…

It’s not always better to be more capable. As I mentioned yesterday , it can ( famously ) be helpful in negotiations to have your hands tied. That is, to be disempowered from giving up everything the other party wants. I…

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

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Vice-president also says Adobe is barred from visa program that allows high-skilled workers to apply for US residency Microsoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa pr…