19+ hour, 38+ min ago   (1823+ words) Claude Code is the talk of the town, and of the Twitter. It has reached critical mass. Suddenly, everyone is talking about how it is transforming their workflows. This includes non-coding workflows, as it can handle anything a computer can…...

20+ hour, 11+ min ago   (983+ words) This is a post by Abbey Chaver from'Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy). I recently did a relatively shallow investigation on the state of Infosec x AI. My research consisted of identifying the main GCR-relevant workstreams, looking at relative neglectedness, and…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (679+ words) The problem with primarily human-driven oversight is that it is not scalable: as AI systems keep getting smarter, errors become harder to detect: Below I will lay out this vision in more detail, first demonstrating self-verifiability through several examples, then…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (378+ words) What are transformers, and some ways to think about them. Art Deco isn't just an architectural style. You also have fashion, jewelery, furniture " even fonts! " that we call Art Deco. Similarly, this same transformer architecture, can also be applied to…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (607+ words) This is a well-written book about the rise of deep learning, and the man who is the most responsible for building the hardware that it needs. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three engineers. They failed to articulate much of a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) I've spent several weeks and months dabbling with AI in the form of various chat interfaces from VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity, and Mac Terminal. Each provided their own twist on the formula of typing something, and some cool shit pops…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (908+ words) This post builds on Circuits in Superposition 2, using the same terminology. The dominant source of error in Circuits in Superposition 2 can be summarised as follows: Signal from the active circuit bleeds into inactive circuits, and this signal then enters back…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (910+ words) A decade+ ago, there was this post A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, which noted that we seem to be designing all our devices to have smooth glass omni-interfaces. It opens with these vignettes of how people…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (367+ words) [This is an entry for lsusr's write-like-lsusr competition.] David Chalmers says you should treat technological VR as real and be ready to live there. Intuitively, this is suspicious. Conveniently, Chalmers lists the ways he considers things real, one of which…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1336+ words) Epistemic status: This is a quick analysis that might have major mistakes. I currently think there is something real and important here. I'm sharing to elicit feedback and update others insofar as an update is in order, and to learn…...