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Early 2026 LLMs in scaffolds, from simple ones such as giving the model access to a scratchpad/"chain of thought" up to MCP servers, skills, and context compaction &c are quite capable. (Obligatory meme link to the METR graph.) Yet: If someone had told me in 2019 that systems with such...
"Calm, dog", Khan tries. "OK, senpai" I beg. Copper Ra satellites for zenith, my sandals sauna on emerald rubbish in the barracks. "Traffic me alcohol and the syrup jar here, ninja". I stubbornly tote ginger tea and chocolate, Khan's a punk. Bizarre: Myths don't rattle in this hip ghetto —...
Summary: Looking over humanity's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost six years later, reveals that we've forgotten to fulfill our intent at preparing for the next pandemic. I rant. content warning: A single carefully placed slur. > If we want to create a world free of pandemics and other biological...
Humans may be in a state of total confusion as to the fundamental makeup of the cosmos and its rules, to the point where even extremely basic concepts would need to be revised for accurate understanding. epistemic status: Philosophy Content Warning: Philosophy Attention conservation notice: Philosophy > There are more...
Some ideas on how to handle mildly superpersuasive AI systems. Top recommendation: AI developers should have a designated position at their organization for the only people who interact with newly trained AI systems, so-called "model-whisperers", which have no other relevant access to infrastructure within the organization. > Meanwhile, I’ve got...
Summary: Meditation may decrease sleep need, and large amounts of meditation may decrease sleep need drastically. Correlation between total sleep duration & time spent meditating is -0.32 including my meditation retreat data, -0.016 excluding the meditation retreat. > While it may be true that, when doing intensive practice, the need...
In which to compare how similarly programs compute their outputs, naïvely and less naïvely. Logical Correlation Attention conservation notice: Premature formalization, ab-hoc mathematical definition. Motivation, Briefly In the twin prisoners dilemma, I cooperate with my twin because we're implementing the same algorithm. If we modify the twin slightly, for example...