A short summary of AI 2040: Plan A
This post will only make sense if you already know about AI 2040. If you don't, consider reading the authors' announcement post (Substack, Less Wrong), or…
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[AI 2040] Transparency Plan
Over the next few weeks we'll cross post some of AI 2040 supplements to LessWrong for discussion; let us know if there are particular ones you…
Better Call Sol The Workhorse
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 is…
Can AI be Conscious in Ohio?
TLDR: Several US states are considering banning legal personhood for AI systems and/or declaring that AI systems cannot be conscious. The primary motives include religious beliefs,…
Pausing AI at human level seems harder than pausing ASAP
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:…
Oversight of automated research via summarisation: a toy model
Executive SummarySummarisation is one approach to oversight of automated research: a non-scheming agent distils insights from a large body of research into an informative short summary…
Prism: Automating Science-of-Evals Research
tl;dr – we present [Prism], a scaffold for automating science-of-evals research: work that makes the evaluation the primary object of study. The scaffold provides Claude Code…
The Flood, by Anton Leicht
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 reading, and…
Starting The Sequences: Some brief notes from the preface and the introduction
Crossposted (with small tweaks) from my Substack.I have started, as a side read, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, which I believe contains the heart of the…
The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog
content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern artCredit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically baller for the Whitney museum to…