Donors should push animal welfare and global health charities to have more robust scaling plans
Many organisations have a dream for scaling. Fewer have a plan. I helped hundreds of unemployed people with their job search as COO of School of Hard Knocks . We had a training…
Iliad Education Roles: Creating the World’s Best Alignment Research Courses
TL;DR: We’re quickly scaling the Iliad Intensive , which has seen 10x applicant growth per iteration since April, and are hiring for many roles in the Education team to keep up…
Semantic search over every LessWrong post
Site: https://rumble-34-69-187-69.nip.io/ Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b over every lesswrong post. You…
Trump Admin Eyes Deal to Give Away Yosemite Park Land to Real Estate Firm
The White House has been in talks with the firm since the spring of last year.
Do tabular foundation models repair themselves?
TL;DR Ablation is a widely adopted technique in mechanistic interpretability research. Self-repair invalidates conclusions drawn from ablation experiments. While self-repair is…
Media Matters weekly newsletter, August 28
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Fox News figures have called for escalation in the war with Iran more than 250 times since the initial ceasefire— and…
SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund
The SEC is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details about the fund's trades,…
Clearing My Foggy Glasses
Zen Buddhism used to weird me out. I longed for the perceived minimalism and contemplation, but Zen also felt barren and inhuman, both passive and far too demanding. Still, I kept…
My MATS 11.0 Application Experience
Note: MATS Winter 2027 applications are open! You can apply here . If you're reading this later, you can check the main MATS page for information on upcoming cycles. I applied to…
STUDY: Figures on Fox News' key programs have called for escalation in the Iran war more than 250 times since the initial ceasefire
In the four months since the initial ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran, Fox News figures have continuously warmongered. Throughout the cycle of ceasefire violations…
The central fallacy: the second-worst argument in the world
In 2012, Scott Alexander wrote about what he considered to be “ the worst argument in the world ”. Essentially, the form of this argument, as he laid out, is to use the inherent…
Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue
Canada's cultural-content rules have become a flashpoint in its trade fight with the U.S., after American negotiators reportedly demanded that Ottawa drop requirements for…
Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas
The Trump administration is proposing to make permanent a $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visas, dramatically increasing costs for employers that rely on highly skilled foreign…
Being Neurotic about Fertility: Notes from the 2026 Reproductive Frontiers Conference
In light of AOC freezing her eggs at 36, someone on X commented: That might be so, but in absence of getting knocked up by the closest Chad ASAP, I figured I, like AOC, had no…
Bessent Unveils Iran Sanctions Regime He Admits Could “Blow Up” Global Economy
The treasury secretary pledged to “sever every economic lifeline” to Iran and its 92 million residents.
Against Modesty’s Bailey
Modesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree. It has been a few years…