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Back to Search“International Law Cannot Prevent Extinction Either” by Sausage Vector Machine
The context for this post is primarily Only Law Can Prevent Extinction, but after first drafting a half-assed comment, I decided to get off my ass a…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
“Neural Networks learn Bloom Filters” by Alex Gibson
Overview:
We train a tiny ReLU network to output sparse top- distributions over a vocabulary much larger than its residual dimension. The trained ne…
4 weeks ago
“If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level” by cube_flipper
I should introduce myself briefly. I'm an independent researcher, striving to understand human consciousness. My research is available at smoothbrai…
4 weeks ago
“Why You Can’t Use Your Right to Try” by Stephen Martin
The Availability Problem:
Imagine you have cancer, or chronic pain, or a progressive degenerative disease of some sort. You have exhausted the tra…
4 weeks ago
“Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8” by Zvi
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Now a lot more people are going crazy for coding agents, as well they shoul…
4 weeks ago
“A benchmark is a sensor” by Håvard Tveit Ihle, mabynke
The simple mental picture
A simple mental picture we have for an AI capability benchmark is to think of it as a sensor with a certain sensitivity wi…
4 weeks ago
“Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis” by Linch
Here's a dynamic I’ve seen at least a dozen times:
Alice: Man that article has a very inaccurate/misleading/horrifying headline.
Bob: Did you know…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Write Cause You Have Something to Say” by Logan Riggs
The ones who are most successful at writeathons (Inkhaven, NaNoWriMo) are those with an overhang of things to say, usually in the form of:
draft pos…4 weeks, 1 day ago
“AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures” by jefftk
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same d…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Is ProgramBench Impossible?” by frmsaul
ProgramBench is a new coding benchmark that all frontier models fail spectacularly. We’ve been on a quest for “hard benchmarks” for a while so it's …
4 weeks, 1 day ago