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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...
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...