been on a tear, on the bad place
May 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
been on a tear, on the bad place
You can't buy melatonin in the UK. In the US, it's hard to avoid: it's in gas station soft drinks. How general is this kind of thing?
Our new beige site looks at every case where medical regulators disagree about whether to approve a medicine. We found 101 instances
www.juriscription.info/results
Our new beige site looks at every case where medical regulators disagree about whether to approve a medicine. We found 101 instances
www.juriscription.info/results
April 26, 2026 at 8:49 AM
You can't buy melatonin in the UK. In the US, it's hard to avoid: it's in gas station soft drinks. How general is this kind of thing?
Our new beige site looks at every case where medical regulators disagree about whether to approve a medicine. We found 101 instances
www.juriscription.info/results
Our new beige site looks at every case where medical regulators disagree about whether to approve a medicine. We found 101 instances
www.juriscription.info/results
A jaundiced thread on OpenAI's (broadly quite good) New Deal policies.
*Most* of these ideas have massive unflagged conflicts of interest
*Most* of these ideas have massive unflagged conflicts of interest
April 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
A jaundiced thread on OpenAI's (broadly quite good) New Deal policies.
*Most* of these ideas have massive unflagged conflicts of interest
*Most* of these ideas have massive unflagged conflicts of interest
Reposted by gavin leech
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
ergosphere.blog
March 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
Reposted by gavin leech
I am not going to be able to latch onto the latest cool trend because several extremely clever people who I've known for years and respect immensely are currently producing very good work with AI. It would be more socially convenient if this wasn't true but it is.
April 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I am not going to be able to latch onto the latest cool trend because several extremely clever people who I've known for years and respect immensely are currently producing very good work with AI. It would be more socially convenient if this wasn't true but it is.
New Anthropic paper on functional emotions
www.anthropic.com/research/emo...
i was really expecting this to be a property of multi-agent systems
but again, single-agent aping of a multi-agent system (humanity) goes further than you think
www.gleech.org/emobots
www.anthropic.com/research/emo...
i was really expecting this to be a property of multi-agent systems
but again, single-agent aping of a multi-agent system (humanity) goes further than you think
www.gleech.org/emobots
April 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
New Anthropic paper on functional emotions
www.anthropic.com/research/emo...
i was really expecting this to be a property of multi-agent systems
but again, single-agent aping of a multi-agent system (humanity) goes further than you think
www.gleech.org/emobots
www.anthropic.com/research/emo...
i was really expecting this to be a property of multi-agent systems
but again, single-agent aping of a multi-agent system (humanity) goes further than you think
www.gleech.org/emobots
"steamcyberpunk": very old things which would seem futuristic/dystopian if they were invented now
March 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"steamcyberpunk": very old things which would seem futuristic/dystopian if they were invented now
Willy Ley was a pioneer of rocketry who fled the Nazis. Last year they found his ashes in a basement in Manhattan, and there's some beautiful talk of scattering them on the moon
March 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Willy Ley was a pioneer of rocketry who fled the Nazis. Last year they found his ashes in a basement in Manhattan, and there's some beautiful talk of scattering them on the moon
little test of Gemini 3.1 Pro:
"Output SVG as XML of a tiger riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a tiger"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a tiger riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a tiger"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a bicycle"
March 1, 2026 at 12:38 PM
little test of Gemini 3.1 Pro:
"Output SVG as XML of a tiger riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a tiger"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a tiger riding a bicycle"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a tiger"
"Output SVG as XML of a pelican riding a bicycle"
Reposted by gavin leech
At FHI I used to have a running debate with Nick Bostrom where he suggested I should read more history and I suggested he should read more SF. This great essay by @adapalmer.bsky.social gives a great argument for both.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians
SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …
strangehorizons.com
February 28, 2026 at 2:50 AM
At FHI I used to have a running debate with Nick Bostrom where he suggested I should read more history and I suggested he should read more SF. This great essay by @adapalmer.bsky.social gives a great argument for both.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
New paper on a long-shot I've been obsessed with for a year:
How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "shallow" generalisation (approximate pattern-matching to highly-related training data)?
t.co/CH2vP0Y7OF
How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "shallow" generalisation (approximate pattern-matching to highly-related training data)?
t.co/CH2vP0Y7OF
February 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
New paper on a long-shot I've been obsessed with for a year:
How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "shallow" generalisation (approximate pattern-matching to highly-related training data)?
t.co/CH2vP0Y7OF
How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "shallow" generalisation (approximate pattern-matching to highly-related training data)?
t.co/CH2vP0Y7OF
February 27, 2026 at 10:50 AM
The Lost Generation killed people in trenches, saw dozens of friends choke to death
The Greatest Generation liberated death camps
Boomers in or out of Nam, fucked strangers, OD'd
Gen X squatted scenius, shot heroin, got AIDS
I lived in africa this one time
Your linkedin is genuinely impressive
The Greatest Generation liberated death camps
Boomers in or out of Nam, fucked strangers, OD'd
Gen X squatted scenius, shot heroin, got AIDS
I lived in africa this one time
Your linkedin is genuinely impressive
February 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
The Lost Generation killed people in trenches, saw dozens of friends choke to death
The Greatest Generation liberated death camps
Boomers in or out of Nam, fucked strangers, OD'd
Gen X squatted scenius, shot heroin, got AIDS
I lived in africa this one time
Your linkedin is genuinely impressive
The Greatest Generation liberated death camps
Boomers in or out of Nam, fucked strangers, OD'd
Gen X squatted scenius, shot heroin, got AIDS
I lived in africa this one time
Your linkedin is genuinely impressive
sorry but my first reaction is sheer relief that there's one country with more ridiculous laws than britain
February 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
sorry but my first reaction is sheer relief that there's one country with more ridiculous laws than britain
ok fine I'll try this place for the fourth time
February 26, 2026 at 7:08 PM
ok fine I'll try this place for the fourth time
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
breakthroughs of the year
www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/frontier2025
www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/frontier2025
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
breakthroughs of the year
www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/frontier2025
www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/frontier2025