Get the Flock Out of Here
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*The government gets the privately collected data and in return dismantles
or disables the guardrails that once protected the public from state and
private...
Who Are Your "Descendants"?
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On AI risk, I’ve said that evolved things have two robust habits: wariness
of co-existing rivals, even when quite similar to you, and indulgence of
descend...
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
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*This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in
The Guardian.*
In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s A...
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Zionist agenda
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Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “radio,” came with a note: This one is
from a year-old story which I missed at the time. The script writes itself!
The ...
Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare
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If you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude
models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far.
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Finding The Money
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from Lars Syll Here you can watch Finding The Money for free MMT is
fundamentally a reaction to the way money is described in mainstream
economic theory, w...
House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions
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Quick Summary: I am going to continue to do my yearly update on three sets
of technologies every January 1st. I am going to decouple them from my
predictio...
America’s War on an Independent World
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How the United States is using oil, technology, transportation and the
dollar system to rebuild its declining global power.
The post %%post_title%% first ...
The three cornered container
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In reply to The three cornered container by Chris Corrigan What stands out
to me reading this, is that I feel I have an intrinsic preference for the
emerge...
Jordan Triples and the Standard Model
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I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of
articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m
kind o...
NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail
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A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The
NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose.
Here’s ...
All Watched Over
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I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy
describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving
gra...
CSTA 2026: CS teaching 2.0
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[image: Rows of teachers interlined by arms, standing, facing stage, .]We
all hold hands at the Tuesday plenary.
Over my many years of traveling to confere...
CHINA AND THE LEFT – forum transcript
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On September 25, 2025, the Platypus Affiliated Society chapter at the
Australian National University hosted a public forum on China and The Left.
The speak...
Generative AI with tool calling in Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in
Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling. I wrote last year about how I
introduc...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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