Elon bids to buy OpenAI, AI in Paris, DOGE, Gelephu

February 15, 2025

Help Denmark Buy California. Sam Altman offers three observations. OpenAI plans to unify the o-series and GPT-series. Elon offers to buy OpenAI (the...

Awakening, deep research, Qureshi principles, AI for animals, Kendrick at the Super Bowl

February 8, 2025

nytimes profile (a) on how Psymposia contributed to tanking MAPS' FDA application for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. "Mental tension, a subtle form of...

Gold to NYC, exiting the Vampire Castle, DeepSeek DeepSeek DeepSeek

February 3, 2025

It appears PEPFAR is safe for now, but its future is uncertain... Gold delivery: US banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion weighing...

PEPFAR to lose funding, Super Mario dharma, DeepSeek DeepSeek DeepSeek

January 28, 2025

PEPFAR is in danger of losing its funding in the midst of the DC reshuffling, which would be a profound tragedy and an unforced error. Please reach out if...

Chartres, Stargate, Operator, r1, declassification, two-headed worms

January 24, 2025

Agnes Callard has written a new book making the case for the philosophical life. Dwarkesh and Gavin Leech have compiled an oral history of AI research in the...

The Pope on AI, scaling via self-play?, FM-2030, Lynch RIP

January 19, 2025

The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR): PEAR employed electronic random event generators (REGs) to explore the ability of test subjects to use...

Tech bro elegy, d/acc update, EA, fnords!

January 15, 2025

Happy 2025! There were a lot of great reflections over the break: Max Novendstern's beautifully memoiristic technology brother elegy. Vishal Maini's...

Nebraska, optimal exercise, AI podcast hosts, fluoride bad?

October 16, 2024

Scott Alexander grades Milei. "There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems: Findings from a...

AI diagnosticians, arms race, malaise, Megalopolis

October 10, 2024

What kind of (math) problem am I trying to solve? Newsom vetoes SB 1047 (a). Zvi gives a close reading of the Governor's announcement; Dean Ball on what...

Xunzi, Petrov, much AI, games the Buddha wouldn't play

September 30, 2024

The Erotics of Mentorship. "The best teaching is always intimate." "Jung believed anima development has four distinct levels of Eros, which... he named Eve,...

SB 1047 on Newsom's desk, Strawberry drops, Kendrick brings it

September 17, 2024

Psychedelia, meet the United States Department of Defense Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP). Employees of frontier AI labs call for...

SB 1047, UBI study, livity, ngakpas, Megalopolis

September 7, 2024

Steve Newman on the SB 1047 debate. Dan Hendrycks (of the Center for AI Safety) in Time: California’s draft AI law would protect more than just people Helen...

SMI2LE, lab-grown salmon, you should be a god-emperor

September 1, 2024

"Following his release from prison in 1976, counterculture guru Timothy Leary began to espouse a new plan for experimentation if not human enhancement....

Iceland, spiritual health, NPD breach, Trump does aya

August 25, 2024

The Yule Lads are "a group of 13 mischievous pranksters who steal from or otherwise harass the population." Watch out for Gluggagægir. The hottest...

Unfathomable power, Guernica, E-Prime, Cheez Doodles

August 21, 2024

you are in all likelihood reading this on an unfathomably powerful machine. the kind of machine whose creation requires the robust collaboration of 100,000s...