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"You’re an AI Expert – Not an Influencer" by Max Winga

Your hot takes are killing your credibility.

Prior to my last year at ControlAI, I was a physicist working on technical AI safety research. Like man…

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"The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19" by GeneSmith

If you're a woman interested in preserving your fertility window beyond its natural close in your late 30s, egg freezing is one of your best options…

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"The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference" by Abhishaike Mahajan

In 1654, a Jesuit polymath named Athanasius Kircher published Mundus Subterraneus, a comprehensive geography of the Earth's interior. It had maps an…

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"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed

Nothing groundbreaking, just something people forget constantly, and I’m writing it down so I don’t have to re-explain it from scratch.

The world do…

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"Solemn Courage" by aysja

Every so often it slips. It seems I am writing a book, but I can’t remember why. Somehow, the sentences are supposed to perform that impossible, int…

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"Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse" by Martin Sustrik

Nagoro, a depopulated village in Japan where residents are replaced by dolls. In 1960, Yubari, a former coal-mining city on Japan's northern island o…

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"Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies" by Jan_Kulveit

Based on a talk at the Post-AGI Workshop. Also on Boundedly Rational

Does anyone reading this believe in Xhosa cattle-killing prophecies?

My claim …

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"Weight-Sparse Circuits May Be Interpretable Yet Unfaithful" by jacob_drori

TLDR: Recently, Gao et al trained transformers with sparse weights, and introduced a pruning algorithm to extract circuits that explain performance …

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"My journey to the microwave alternate timeline" by Malmesbury

Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip

Recommended soundtrack for this post

As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by t…

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"Stone Age Billionaire Can’t Words Good" by Eneasz

I was at the Pro-Billionaire march, unironically. Here's why, what happened there, and how I think it went.

Me on the far left. From WSJ.

I. Why?

Th…

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