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I. "Telescopic altruism" is a supposed tendency for some people to ignore those close to them in favor of those further away. Like its cousi...
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I. "Telescopic altruism" is a supposed tendency for some people to ignore those close to them in favor of those further away. Like its cousi...

In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certa...

Michael Halassa: Did John Nash Really Have Schizophrenia? is a good article on the genetics of psychosis. Previous research found that schiz...

SUPPORTER: America needs to start talking to China to come up with a bilateral agreement to pause AI. The agreement would need to be transpa...

I. John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1921. Not John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher (or, rather, John Rawls t...

Every few weeks, a Trump administration official comes up with an insane plan that would devastate some American industry, region, or demogr...

I hate the term "hallucinations" for when AIs say false things. It's perfectly calculated to mislead the reader - to make them think AIs are...

Guest post by David Speiser The Problem Everyone hates Congress. That poll showing that cockroaches are more popular than Congress is now th...

California lets interest groups propose measures for the state ballot. Anyone who gathers enough signatures (currently 874,641) can put thei...

Having Your Own Government Try To Destroy You Is (At Least Temporarily) Good For Business On Friday, the Pentagon declared AI company Anthro...

Last Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared AI company Anthropic a " supply chain risk ", the first time this designation has ever b...

I. In The Argument, Kelsey Piper gives a good description of the ways that AIs are more than just "next-token predictors" or "stochastic par...

Here's my understanding of the situation : Anthropic signed a contract with the Pentagon last summer. It originally said the Pentagon had to...

Malicious streetlights are an evil trick from Dark Data Journalism. Some annoying enemy has a valid complaint. So you use FACTS and LOGIC to...

It's that time again. Even numbered years are book reviews, odd-numbered years are non-book reviews, so you're limited to books for now. Wri...

The problem: people hate crime and think it's going up. But actually, crime barely affects most people and is historically low . So what's g...

Last year, the US may have recorded the lowest murder rate in its 250 year history. Other crimes have poorer historical data, but are at lea...

[Original post: Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work ] I. Ajeya Cotra's Biological Anchors report was the landmark AI ti...

The European discourse can be - for lack of a better term - America-brained. We hear stories of Black Lives Matter marches in countries with...

[I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in e...
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