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“Prism: Automating Science-of-Evals Research” by LAThomson

tl;dr – we present [Prism], a scaffold for automating science-of-evals research: work that makes the evaluation the primary object of study. The sca…

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“The Flood, by Anton Leicht” by Austin Chen

Note: I'm crossposting Anton's newest article from his blog. Anton covers AI policy angles in a singular fashion; every article he writes is worth r…

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“Toy Models of Initialisation Effects on RL Dynamics” by Edward James Young, lennie

This is a follow-up to two posts Geodesic released last week on our current research direction. The code for generating the figures can be found at …

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“Our response to Séb Krier on Plan A” by MKodama, Thomas Larsen

This criticism of AI 2040: Plan A by Séb Krier unfortunately seriously mischaracterizes our proposal. It also mostly contains flat assertions, not r…

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“Better Call Sol The Workhorse” by Zvi

OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.

We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that …

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“Pausing AI at human level seems harder than pausing ASAP” by MichaelDickens

Cross-posted from my website.

Some people think we should pause AI, but not now. They say we should wait until AI reaches human level, [1] because…

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“It’s 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?” by Boaz Barak

[Linkpost to this. Loosely based on a lecture I gave in the recursive conference with the same title. Don’t take “2030” literally¹ —it could also be…

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“The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog” by jenn

content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art

Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically b…

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“The US Government may find it difficult to seize control during takeoff” by RobertM

Epistemic status: conditioning on things I consider unlikely, many undiscussed considerations, not the whole story, etc. I'm not trying to advance a…

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“One-Pager Brief on Pangram Labs” by Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali

Pangram Labs builds the most accurate AI text detector in the world. Team is >25 FTE; they are active on Twitter, you can engage directly, look for …

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