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The new scorecard is on my website, AI Lab Watch. This replaces my old scorecard. I redid the conte

Epistemic Status: Over years of reading alignment plans and studying agent foundations, this is my

This is a link post. A few decades ago, it was pretty common to mush together priming effects and fr

Lessons from shutting down institutions in Eastern Europe. This is a cross post from: https://250b

Unlike everyone else, Anthropic actually Does (Some of) the Research. That means they report all th

Abstract Claude 3.7 Sonnet easily detects when it's being evaluated for scheming. Surface‑level edi

Ask an epigenetics researcher what they study, and the standard story you'll hear goes something li

What a week, huh? America signed a truly gigantic chip sales agreement with UAE and KSA that could

The economist Wassily Leontief, writing in 1966, used the then-recent decline of horses to make viv

In the context of model-based RL agents in general, and brain-like AGI in particular, part of the s

Core Argument The barrier to preying on "mirror-image" life is likely lower than presumed due to:

The company released a model it classified as risky — without meeting requirements it previously pr

In my previous post in this series, I explained why we urgently need to change AI developers’ incen

Last week I stumbled over Dimensional Analysis which is not only useful for applied fields (physics

PDF version. berkeleygenomics.org. Introduction Here we list six policies that would help acceler

This is a link post. Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 are out. Anthropic says they're both state-of

Epistemic status: shower thought quickly sketched, but I do have a PhD in this. As we approach AGI

This is a link post. On May 20, during her speech at the Annual EU Budget Conference 2025, Ursula vo

What did Google announce on I/O day? Quite a lot of things. Many of them were genuinely impressive.

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