Promethium science automation. Though my “automation” often results in me getting an alert to check in on Odin 2. Odin 1 fired fewer alerts, with debatable impact, and fewer railgun shells, with more conclusive impact.
@patio11
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1Day Sooner: Non-profit capturing moral urgency in infectious disease
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A non-profit I like which works on infectious diseases has a name which almost uniquely captures the moral urgency: 1Day Sooner.
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Humanity’s AI Progress: Normalizing Tomorrow’s Ethical Challenges
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It's simultaneously a bit of "Humanity. Eff yeah." and a bit of a reminder that we currently treat as normal and inescapable things which future generations will not believe when they read in history class, and we should *sprint as if possessed.*
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Financial Scandal Timeline: Weird Becomes Investigation Then Sentence
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The “Huh, that’s weird” from Money Stuff in 2021 becomes the investigation in 2022 becomes the sentence in 2025.
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Publishers’ Flawed Incentive Design in Publishing Industry
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On background knowledge, from knowing a few best-selling authors and working adjacent to a publishing company, you might think “Wow, publishers seem to have poor understanding of incentive design.” But when you hear how they actually operate, hah hah, oh it’s so much worse.
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Hardware Development Challenges in AI Projects
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“Do hardware, they said. Avoid frustration, they said. What could possibly go wrong, they said.”
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Bayesian Spam Filters Evolution: From Cutting Edge to Simple Implementation
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Side note: even when implementing Bayesian filters (thanks PG!), which were once very cutting edge, never would have imagined that you could eventually write a fully featured spam classifier as:
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Nostalgia for Early Career in Email Spam Filter Evasion Techniques
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It honestly makes me a bit nostalgic for my early twenties working in email spam, because to evade then state-of-the-art word filters, the more creative spammers would come up with increasingly baroque references to improving anatomical function.
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Twitter Spam Uses Dadaist Word Salad to Evade LLM Classifiers
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New trends in Twitter spam, from the people who brought you 160,000 reasons to turn off notifications: Dadaist word salad meant to apparently suggest trading gains to a low-sophistication mark while avoiding an LLM classifier given the task “Is this user talking about trading?”
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Lua Security Model Limits Network Connections and HTTPS Support
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Presumably because the Lua scripting security model doesn’t allow arbitrary network connections or HTTPS requests, for predictable reasons. It would have to have direct support, which is not a priority for the company.