Why do we dream—and do our dreams serve a purpose?Sleep and dream researcher Robert Stickgold joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore the science of dreaming, from the history and content of dreams to what happens in the brain during sleep. They discuss memory processing, emotional regulation, REM sleep, weak associations, nightmares, lucid dreams, creativity, and whether dreams help us explore possibilities and prepare for the future. Subscribe to Closer To

TL;DR. We ran Jev 1.13 — TypeSafe's non-autoregressive model, which answers questions with probabilities and cannot emit text, on the ThinkFast no-CoT suite and Neel Nanda's NCRI. Jev's capabilities are very jagged. As a transcript monitor its AUROC on sabotage and sandbagging detection is level with GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 without CoT, at about 1/200th of Opus 4.7's cost. On multiple-choice questions it ranges from ahead of GPT-5.5 (GPQA-Diamond) to well behind it (Sally-Anne). It does badly on tasks

October, the month of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has begun.This week, we obtained an incredible sermon from a dear priest friend of ours, warning against spiritual mediocrity, the URGENT need to embrace the high calling of becoming a saint, and the necessity of praying the daily Rosary to do so.While he must remain anonymous, we received his permission to deliver his sermon in video form in order to share its message with as many souls as possible.BECOME A PATRON OF THE GREAT

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Cross-posted from https://padastra.substack.com/p/why-did-we-get-warning-shots?r=n2jpq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I come from outside the EA / rationalist / LessWrong community. I would strongly prefer for AI to be a normal positive technology and to dismiss AI X-risk as a sci-fi scenario created by smart cultists who extrapolated a set of superficially reasonable (but probably subtly-incorrect) assumptions too far. Unfortunately, with the passage of time, it has become apparent that