SCOTUS Lifts an Injunction on Trump’s Mailed Ballot Rules, But Hurdles Remain
The Supreme Court’s ruling will not be the final word on the president’s executive order.
Laura Loomer: "You're going to be at war with Muslims in America within the next five years"
Fox News hosts try to address their network’s culture war fixation on the WNBA
IL Promised to Protect Immigrants. Local Officials Helped Deport Them Anyway.
Local officials collaborated with federal immigration agencies despite a state law to prevent collaboration.
Checking in on Trump’s war on the press since his White House Correspondents’ dinner speech
Activation Oracles significantly underperform without a safe base model
Raffaello Fornasiere*, Nikita Menon, Andrzej Szablewski, Gabriel Konar-Steenberg, Stefan Heimersheim. *First Author. This study is a focused extension of a project done at LASR…
Warning Shots: A Theory
Many people take it for granted that government won’t do anything to address societal scale AI risk unless or until there is a catastrophic “warning shot,” where an AI goes rogue…
Incomplete alignment to servitude isn't inherently lethal
Epistemic status: I suspect significant parts of the argument in this post are wrong, but in interesting and productive ways. Take it as a prompt for thought, written from the…
Fox's Lawrence Jones: JD Vance needs to "distance himself" from podcasters "going against the president" if he wants to be the 2028 GOP nominee
Brain preservation as existential risk reduction
“… it will actually be possible to cure most human disease in ~5-10 years ” -Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, writing on X , August 2026. About 170,000 people will die today, the…
FAQ: Why not develop weak human intelligence amplification first?
(Note: I was unsatisfied with a draft of this, heavily edited it, and I'm still unsatisfied. The notion of "weak HIA method" here is muddled, maybe conflating multiple things that…
Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs
Perplexity and Nvidia have launched "Portable Computer," a local-first version of Perplexity's agent platform that runs AI models, files, tools, and workflows directly on…
Malign initializations are more robust when the model can think better in the reasoning language than in the output language
One approach to evaluating techniques for training misaligned models to behave well is to test them on malign initializations . A major obstacle is that we don’t have a reliable…
Trump Sanctioned ICC Officials to Shield Israeli Leaders. Rights Groups Sued.
Supporters of Trump-sanctioned individuals or entities face maximums of $1 million in fines and 20 years imprisonment.
Waymo Is Expanding to Germany
Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, marking the Google-owned company's first expansion into the European Union. "It already operates in 11…
Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS
Motorola is working with GrapheneOS to officially support the privacy-focused Android alternative on its 2027 flagship phones, starting with a non-folding model and later…