Practical connection with past lives
When the Dalai Lama dies, I hear they search for a child who is presumed to be his reincarnation. Whether or not you believe in reincarnation,…
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Career Choice: Becoming a Researcher in a Non-EA-Priority Field vs Founding Tech Startup?
Engineering + math graduate whose goal is to maximize impact. I am currently deciding between two career paths, but have been struggling a lot to determine…
The Singapore AI Safety Fellowship – Applications Open (Deadline: July 10 2026)
SASH is accepting applications for the inaugural Singapore AI Safety Fellowship, a three-month residential research fellowship running September 21 - December 4, 2026.What it is: An…
Modeling Concepts Probabilistically
As I come up to speed on John Wentworth and David Lorell’s work on natural abstraction, I’m filling in some of the gaps in their writing.…
AI welfare research needs basic science
Over the course of MATS 9.0 we formed some views about AI welfare research that we thought were worth writing up. This post is meant to…
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.…
How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?
On July 4, 2026, the United States turns 250. This anniversary made me think about how many people it took to build this country, and how…
Conversations With Cade Metz on the Rationalists
(Previously, previously.) New York Times reporter Cade Metz has been writing a book about the people who believed in AGI before it was cool. That's a…
Do-it-yourself meta-analysis
Dynomight has looked at the health effects of vitamin D supplementation. The large-scale meta-analyses that have been performed conclude there is no significant effect, even though…
When capabilities work is the *safe* bet
If you believe that LLMs lend themselves unusually well to alignment compared to other regimes, this can be a very good reason to start doing capability…