As Foodborne Illnesses Surge, People Turn to Local Farms for Certainty
Black farmers see a rise in support as cyclospora and salmonella outbreaks drive concerns over industrial food systems.
New Poll Shows Strong Support for Proportional Representation Among Americans
Support for proportional representation appears to grow the more people understand what it is.
Finding the Seams of Perception
The tricky thing about experiencing the territory beneath our maps is that we habitually map over the gaps as fast as we can find them — the act of seeing that reality isn't what…
Unblocking AI's Continual Learning: Hints From How Humans Learn
If you've ever screamed in all-caps at an AI, then you know the difference between what it learned when it was trained, and what you can teach it by prompting. The LLMs powering…
Sailor Went Overboard USS Abraham Lincoln Amid Reports of Morale Crisis
Multiple sailors have reportedly tried to jump overboard as Trump’s war on Iran has kept them at sea for months.
Rationality Is Not Reversed Irrationality
Epistemic status: Speculative psychoanalysis to illustrate a point Many people have observed that Tyler Cowen's Act Like it is science is a clear case of an isolated demand for…
AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk
OpenAI’s cyberattack on Hugging Face turns out to have been the result of many agents, in distinct training and evaluation contexts, coordinating for several weeks via improvised…
We should consider how long monitoring is reliable for during RL
Epistemic status: I am new to AI Safety and am writing blogs to gain context. This blog post was formed from discussions with Aidan Ewart and Jonathan Bostock, but they do not…
How a Billionaire Is Using His Fortune to Reshape the Democratic Party
“Mandel wants power and control,” said one Connecticut lawmaker, describing the billionaire’s growing political influence.
When (and when not) LLMs can verbalize awareness of J-Space concept injections - Initial results
Code for reproduction and cross-model extensions available here . Summary I injected single-token Jacobian Lens (J-Lens) vectors into Qwen 3.6–27B while it answered 20 simple…
England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks…
The Age of Pluribus: One Consultant for Everyone
What happens when everyone asks the same consultant? Millions of people turn to LLMs for advice daily, consulting on various personal topics, from how to learn a new skill to how…
Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded…
Did the alignment community underestimate its power?
Unfortunately, the alignment community is doing very badly at learning from the past decade, or holding anyone accountable. Indeed, it’s pursuing many strategies which seem likely…
First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA
Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on…