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DeepMind gives up on mechanistic interpretability research (lesswrong.com)

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The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress (dwarkesh.com)

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The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related (a16z.news)

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Self play and autocurricula in the age of agents (amplifypartners.com)

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Even Numbers Are Tautologies (risingentropy.com)

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Acronymy (Can we define every word as an acronym?) (acronymy.net)

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Meditations on Machinic Desire (nothinghuman.substack.com)

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Probiotics Finder (probioticfinder.org)

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Chain-of-Thought Snippets – Anti-Scheming (antischeming.ai)

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Rupert's Snub Cube and Other Math Holes (tom7.org)

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No one but America has the leverage to get AI labor policy right (antonleicht.me)

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Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status (nber.org)

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How information flows through Transformers (twitter.com/repligate)

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4D Gaussian Splatting: InfiniteStudio Wins Best in Show at Siggraph Real Time (radiancefields.com)

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Views from onboard Starship's tenth flight test (twitter.com/spacex)

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Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects (anadodik.github.io)

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Reasoning in LLMs: A Taxonomy (lesswrong.com)

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Potentiation of mitochondrial function reverses cognitive impairment in mice (nature.com)

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Four ways learning Econ makes people dumber re: future AI (lesswrong.com)

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AI as Profoundly Abnormal Technology (ai-futures.org)

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Why I'm excited about the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (medium.com/causalwizard)

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H-Nets – The Past (goombalab.github.io)

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H-Nets – The Future (goombalab.github.io)

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[flagged] The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse (theatlantic.com)

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Energy-Based Transformers Are Scalable Learners and Thinkers (energy-based-transformers.github.io)

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The effect of microgravity on chicken embryogenesis and bone formation (1998) (nih.gov)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Objective Functions (lesswrong.com)

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Google Logo Ligature Bug (jefftk.com)

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AI Doomerism in 1879 (lesswrong.com)

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Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant (theguardian.com)

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The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws (lesswrong.com)

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Reward hacking is becoming more sophisticated and deliberate in frontier LLMs (lesswrong.com)

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Future of Building Starship (spacex.com)

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Keep the Future Human (keepthefuturehuman.ai)

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Bold: Boolean Logic Deep Learning (arxiv.org)

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Apparent signs of distress during LLM redteaming (lesswrong.com)

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The Intelligence Curse (lesswrong.com)

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Why White-Box Redteaming Makes Me Feel Weird (lesswrong.com)

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Gemini Deep Research (gemini.google)

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We Have No Plan for Preventing Loss of Control in Open Models (lesswrong.com)

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Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay (2019) (jefftk.com)

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With AGI, powerful actors will lose their incentives to invest in people (lukedrago.substack.com)

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Murder Plots Are Infohazards (lesswrong.com)

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What went into training DeepSeek-R1? (epoch.ai)

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Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering [video] (youtube.com)

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AGI could drive wages below subsistence level (epoch.ai)

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Measuring Political Preferences in AI Systems: An Integrative Approach (manhattan.institute)

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The Backstory of Backpropagation (yuxi-liu-wired.github.io)

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Can Intel survive the valley of death? [video] (youtube.com)

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New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart (davidrozado.substack.com)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (2009) [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)

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Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov)

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Factory Farming (80000hours.org)

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It's Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope (palladiummag.com)

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The Hopium Wars: The AGI Entente Delusion (lesswrong.com)

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Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision, robotics (news.mit.edu)

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Geoffrey Hinton on the Past, Present, and Future of AI (lesswrong.com)

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Changing Views on mRNA Covid Vaccines in the Scientific Literature: 2020 – 2024 (paom.pl)

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Why I'm Not a Bayesian (lesswrong.com)

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Jennifer Doudna on "Eugenics" (craigwilly.com)

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Science Fiction Dictionary: Ideas, Terms and Technology (technovelgy.com)

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OpenAI o1 System Card [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

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How I got 3.2 million Youtube views without making a single video (lesswrong.com)

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Why Few Math Students Understand the Meaning of Means [video] (youtube.com)

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Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson (matthewball.co)

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Immigration and Crime: Sweden (inquisitivebird.xyz)

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binary: the best way to count [video] (youtube.com)

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Why controlling for variables is insufficient (inquisitivebird.xyz)

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Deepfake Sandbox (civai.org)

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On the Value of Advancing Progress (tobyord.com)

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Birds in Space II: Quails in the Cosmos (2011) (finchwench.wordpress.com)

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20 miles per gallon is about 0.1 square millimeters (wolframalpha.com)

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Did Apple kill the MicroLED industry? (yolegroup.com)

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How An Algorithm Feels From Inside (2008) (lesswrong.com)

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DenseAV: Self-Supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language (mhamilton.net)

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Creativity Has Left the Chat: The Price of Debiasing Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Summary of Situational Awareness – The Decade Ahead (effectivealtruism.org)

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Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways) (tom7.org)

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KLING: Video diffusion model rivaling Sora (kuaishou.com)

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How it feels to get an AI email from a friend (mrgan.com)

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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet (chinamediaproject.org)

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Goldfish Memories (chinamediaproject.org)

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Most people on weight loss drugs are spending less on restaurants and takeout (cnbc.com)

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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) (wikipedia.org)

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Reconsider the anti-cavity bacteria if you are Asian (lesswrong.com)

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[flagged] Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden (springer.com)

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Why People React Less Positively to Research Favoring Men (stevestewartwilliams.com)

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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study (theguardian.com)

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Meaningful (2019) (slatestarcodex.com)

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The seven virtues of simple type theory (2008) (sciencedirect.com)

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Stable pseudonyms create a more civil environment than real names: study (2021) (theconversation.com)

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How we beat the limitations that defined the N64's artstyle [video] (youtube.com)

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Huge study finds men have a stronger sex drive than women (psypost.org)

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Working in the Vision Pro [video] (youtube.com)

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[flagged] Europe Regulates Its Way to Last Place (wsj.com)

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The Great Decline (peterfrost.substack.com)

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Processor power consumption increases as the cube of the clock speed (2013) (physics.stackexchange.com)

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Aaron Swartz and the Corrupt Practice of Plea Bargaining (2013) (forbes.com/sites/timothylee)

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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? (htmx.org)

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Roman Legionary gives Latin speech on Roman Triumph [video] (youtube.com)