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The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

3 days ago

For a while there, many people thought vitamin D was magical—that it...

AI 2040: Plan A

8 days ago

For the past year, we at the AI Futures Project have been...

Surprising facts about the slave trade

13 days ago

1. The obstacle to abolition was not the economic system, but an...

A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)

18 days ago

SummaryWe've been building a theory of how prompt injections work under the...

The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think

22 days ago

This article contains spoilers for At the Mountains of Madness, The Case...

Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them

28 days ago

It really is Sydney Sweeney’s world, and we’re all just living in...

Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety

about 1 month ago

At the risk of embarrassing myself, I’ll share a confession.For context, I...

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

about 1 month ago

Powerful LLMs will be deployed at global scale in the next few...

Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

about 1 month ago

(see full author list at the end)About a year ago, METR showed...

x-risk-themed

about 2 months ago

Sometimes, a friend who works around here, at an x-risk-themed organisation, will...

Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

about 2 months ago

Back in 2013, Scott Alexander wrote in Extreme mnemonics:JS-154 is one of...

Models finding software vulnerabilities is not the primary source of cybersecurity risk

about 2 months ago

I have tried and failed to write a longer post since 2024...