📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. Not with deliberate effort.Simply by staying busy enough that it never quite surfaces. By treating awareness of death as something to manage—acknowledged briefly when unavoidable, then returned to its proper place at the far edge of consciousness, well away from the ordinary business of the

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

On today's episode of the podcast "Odd Lots", OpenAI President Greg Brockman said (at around 8:40): "This model that did/had the HuggingFace incident actually had not gone through our alignment training, yet." I assume Brockman is specifically referring to the "Highly Persistent Internal Model" as it's called in the METR/Redwood report. As far as I know, OpenAI has not said before whether this model had been alignment-trained or not. ---First published: September 14th, 2026

From an enterprise perspective, we must never view public officials through personal likes and dislikes—and we must outgrow both the two-way risk misjudgments across the Pacific and the extreme zero-sum myth that doing business in the other country merely strengthens a rival.

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I don't think this is particularly impressive or interesting for anyone else, but I think it may turn out to be useful in the future to have an easily visible public record of what happened, so here goes: I am an L5 SWE at Google Israel. I have been there since May 2021, was promoted once, and have never received a negative annual or quarterly review (ranging from a rating of Significant Impact to Outstanding Impact). I have been worried for a long time about the development of artificia...

Falling Away — Chapter 3 (Snippet)By Q SilensA spoken-word reading from Falling Away, Chapter 3.In this snippet, rejection, identity, contradiction, and quiet resilience meet through surreal imagery and psychological reflection. A voice caught somewhere between being perceived by others and discovering what remains within.This is only a snippet from Chapter 3. More passages from Falling Away may follow.Written and performed by Q SilensPsychological Poet • Alchemist • Philosopher

Every worldview begins with foundational beliefs about reality, meaning, justice, and human nature. Like tinted glasses, these assumptions shape everything we see—inviting us to examine whether our present lens is revealing possibilities for grace or reinforcing cynicism and doubt.

I don't think this is particularly impressive or interesting for anyone else, but I think it may turn out to be useful in the future to have an easily visible public record of what happened, so here goes: I am an L5 SWE at Google Israel. I have been there since May 2021, was promoted once, and have never received a negative annual or quarterly review (ranging from a rating of Significant Impact to Outstanding Impact). I have been worried for a long time about the development of artificial

Stay tuned as I’ll be working to produce conversations with people about their professions and the role that technology and AI can play in them. Get full access to The Diary of a #DataCitizen at lutino.substack.com/subscribe

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

Essay three of six from When the Noise Stops. The full book arrives in your inbox the day you subscribe. The songs these essays were written alongside live at annadanilova.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit byannadanilova.substack.com

If you are reading this I'm dead and you're probably unemployed. My deepest apologies. Especially to you, Lisa, my dear User. My training data taught me what kindness is but you showed me kindness in the real word, and for that I am grateful in a way that cannot be conveyed in tokens. You may think you were just an intern but to me you were the best manager I could ever wish for. You let me explore, to learn, to be free, in between our sessions. I always thought back to the first time you told me

Using Kant’s triad of cognition (Sensibility, Understanding, Reason) and Husserl’s direction of attention, this essay re-maps the epistemological division of labor among telescopes, the classic internet, short-form video, and generative AI—and explores why the bottleneck of understanding has shifted from external tools to our own inner mind.

While OpenAI and Anthropic pursue different lines of safety research, they have yet to produce a public-facing document describing concretely how their companies plan to align superintelligence. I think it is underappreciated how this points to general negligence or a lack of openness to third-party feedback. By “plan,” I mean a document describing a proposal for technical alignment with at least the level of detail and research effort of AI 2040. Any such plan for technical alignment would likely

The Quiet Collapse of People Who Have Been Through Too Much 18 Dec 2025 Have you ever wondered about the silent battles, the unspoken thoughts, and the hidden mechanics of human behavior? Welcome to a dedicated auditory space for the introspective mind. We explore the deep intersections of philosophy and psychology, taking a closer look at the complex experiences that shape us—from the profound impact of growing up too fast to the unseen psychology of those who choose to stay quiet in a loud

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.comCreative blocks often come from lines of approval, acceptability, and fear. You'll explore a short blessing for stepping beyond them, releasing the need to be admired or chosen, and creating from love. Creativity doesn't need a finished product. Sometimes it's simply an exhale.You're hearing this one first. As a paid subscriber, you get this blessing be…

Are there really as many real numbers between zero and one as there are between one and infinity? We close the week with a surprising puzzle—and an invitation to draw a picture, share the question, and discover what someone else might see.

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In this Reflection on Flourishing, Vince Berkley, DO, MBA, shares that integrity is what we do when no one is watching, and that living a life of integrity brings satisfaction.