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Back to Search"Prompt injection in Google Translate reveals base model behaviors behind task-specific fine-tuning" by megasilverfist
tl;dr Argumate on Tumblr found you can sometimes access the base model behind Google Translate via prompt injection. The result replicates for me, a…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
"Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics" by eleweek
Psychedelics are usually known for many things: making people see cool fractal patterns, shaping 60s music culture, healing trauma. Neuroscientists …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
"Post-AGI Economics As If Nothing Ever Happens" by Jan_Kulveit
When economists think and write about the post-AGI world, they often rely on the implicit assumption that parameters may change, but fundamentally, …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
"IABIED Book Review: Core Arguments and Counterarguments" by Stephen McAleese
The recent book “If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies” (September 2025) by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argues that creating superintelligent AI i…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
"Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)" by RobertM
Author's note: this is somewhat more rushed than ideal, but I think getting this out sooner is pretty important. Ideally, it would be a bit less sna…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
"Conditional Kickstarter for the “Don’t Build It” March" by Raemon
tl;dr: You can pledge to join a big protest to ban AGI research at ifanyonebuildsit.com/march, which only triggers if 100,000 people sign up.
The If…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
"How to Hire a Team" by Gretta Duleba
A low-effort guide I dashed off in less than an hour, because I got riled up.
Try not to hire a team. Try pretty hard at this. Try to find a more …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
"The Possessed Machines (summary)" by L Rudolf L
The Possessed Machines is one of the most important AI microsites. It was published anonymously by an ex- lab employee, and does not seem to have sp…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
"Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance" by Martin Sustrik
Papal election of 1492 For over a decade, Ada Palmer, a history professor at University of Chicago (and a science-fiction writer!), struggled to teac…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
"AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)" by Stanislav Fort
This is a partial follow-up to AISLE discovered three new OpenSSL vulnerabilities from October 2025.
TL;DR: OpenSSL is among the most scrutinized an…
4 weeks, 2 days ago