you cannot just kill people, even if you are the government. if they’re criminals, they need to be arrested and charged with a crime. if they are enemy combatants, it’s a war crime to kill survivors clinging to a wreck. (I am not a lawyer but the article quotes several.)
“The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie being the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting him while riding her bicycle. They also lured soldiers to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them. Oversteegen would approach the soldiers in taverns and bars and ask them to “go for a stroll” in the forest.
links 12/2/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/12-02-2025
https://blog.spec.tech/p/beck-brachmans-quest-to-decode-the profile of Beck Brachman of the Imprint project to measure immune repertoire
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/12/seb-krier.html Seb Krier on AI
https://reason.com/2025/12/01/hegseths-alleged-order-to-kill-everybody-complicates-trumps-defense-of-his-murderous-anti-drug-campaign/
you cannot just kill people, even if you are the government. if they’re criminals, they need to be arrested and charged with a crime. if they are enemy combatants, it’s a war crime to kill survivors clinging to a wreck. (I am not a lawyer but the article quotes several.)
https://www.zo.computer/
https://aiwatch.issarice.com/ people in the AI safety space
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/heiliger-dankgesang Dean Ball on Claude Opus 4.5. [
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document the Claude Opus 4.5 “soul document” is remarkably good.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12089086/ this is probably nothing (n = 19) but claims creatine improves measures of cognition in Alzheimer’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen
“The Oversteegens and Schaft also killed German soldiers, with Freddie being the first of the girls to kill a soldier by shooting him while riding her bicycle. They also lured soldiers to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them. Oversteegen would approach the soldiers in taverns and bars and ask them to “go for a stroll” in the forest.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-logical-triumph-of-english/ an article about sentence complexity that doesn’t look into recursive depth? booo.
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-big-nonprofits-post-2025 Zvi Mowshowitz evaluates nonprofits, mostly AI related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
“With duck typing, an object is of a given type if it has all methods and properties required by that type”
the main difference from nominative typing seems to be that if you define two types with the same structure, they will be interchangeable.
what happens more often—this property coming in handy, or this property biting you in the butt?
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/pdaGN6pQyQarFHXF4/reward-is-not-the-optimization-target “reward” in the RL sense is not the same as things a person subjectively finds “rewarding”. Reward is what shapes your strategy; within a strategy, you don’t need to be aware of it as a thing and seek out that thing.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-a-government-think-tank-trained after WWII, the RAND corporation hired and trained the first large-scale body of computer programmers, to use SAGE to coordinate radar.
https://www.owlposting.com/p/bringing-organ-scale-cryopreservation more detail on how Until’s cryopreservation works