This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly. Most of its gains are from allowing LLMs to productively use longer chains of thought, allowing them to think longer about a problem. There is some improvement for a fixed length of answer, but not enough to drive AI progress. Given the scaling up of pre-training compute also stalled, we'll see less AI progress via compute scaling than you might have

This is a link post. I am not American. But compared to China, I have plenty of friends from the U.S., Australia is more culturally similar to the U.S., and I have spent more time there. So, is the fact that I support the U.S. over China in the AI race just selfish and downstream of my personal circumstances?I would like to think not. But it is worth seriously considering what the future would be like if the CCP becomes the dominant player in AI development. Dominance in AI development could (but

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In this episode of Poetry of Time, we witness Rostam’s fiery debut in battle against Afrasiab and the dawn of the Kayanian age under King Kay Qobad. From the clash of black and golden banners to the first uneasy peace between Iran and Turan, Ferdowsi’s verses blaze with youth, wisdom, and destiny. A new era begins — and the next will test its light. Send us a text Support the show

Building superintelligence poses large existential risks. Also known as: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Where ‘it’ is superintelligence, and ‘dies’ is that probably everyone on the planet literally dies.We should not build superintelligence until such time as that changes, and the risk of everyone dying as a result, as well as the risk of losing control over the future as a result, is very low. Not zero, but far lower than it is now or will be soon. Thus, the Statement on Superintelligence

Audio note: this article contains 38 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. Paper | Github | Demo Notebook This post is about our recent paper Learning to Interpret Weight Differences in Language Models (Goel et al. Oct. 2025). We introduce a method for training a LoRA adapter that gives a finetuned model the ability to accurately describe the effects of its finetuning.Figure 1: A demonstration of our

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Mary Tuthill Lindheim: Credo in Clay In this episode Avis Kalfsbeek honors Mary Tuthill Lindheim, whose ceramics, sculpture, and activism manifested a life lived by creed. We explore how her moral compass intertwined with material, land, and service. Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here:AvisKalfsbeek.com Mary Tuthill Lindheim Recommended References: Crocker Art Museum:

Click here to reply to @Astroality "So when the moon enters Capricorn during Scorpio season, what ends up happening is people are in this energy of, I'm going to get mine. I don't care what I have to do. I don't care what I have to say. The universe owes me, the world owes me, people owe me. I owe myself. I'm going to get mine."

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Lysis asked Socrates to beat Menexenus in eristic debate, but instead, Socrates declares that he is desirous of acquiring a friend or companion, far more than acquiring a quail, a rooster, a horse and dog, the wealth of Darius, or even Darius himself. He claims to have no friends, while Menexenus is the expert on friendship since he and Lysis are such good friends.

Dream images versus film images. Is the hero theme an archetype? Instrumentalities and ends in thmselves Support the show http://michaelrdjames.org

International Sawfish Day; National Pasta Day; Publication of Vegan Kochen fur Alle, by Bjorn Moschinski; Release of Lucent documentary; The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained, by William Shakespeare.

Epistemic status: quickly writtren, rehashing (reheating?) old, old takes. Also, written in a grumpier voice than I’d endorse (I got rained on this morning).Some essays on longtermism came out recently! Perhaps you noticed. I overall think these essays were just fine[1], and that we should all talk less about longtermism.In which I talk about longtermism (In what follows, I’ll take “longtermism” as shorthand for: “the effects of our actions on the long term future should be a key moral

Show Notes:The $60 billion divorce industry that requires maximum conflict for maximum billing. How "deadbeat dads" are systematically created through financial extraction while denying child access, then labeled for breaking under inhuman pressure. The parallel programming of fourth-wave feminism telling women they don't need men while family courts demonstrate to men that commitment equals annihilation. The author's personal testimony of being broken by this system 15 years ago - losing children