The 2026 Nobel Prize Contest
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In the past few years these contests often lacked winners, so I’m
increasing your chances this year by eliminating the sciences and economics
from the gues...
Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot
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404Media is reporting (alternate link) that a cyber-weapons arms
manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic
reboot securit...
When Protection Becomes Tribute
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Washington wants South Korea and Japan to bankroll American industry while
paying more for energy and American technology. It’s an expensive offer:
finan...
My new course at UT Austin: AI Alignment Theory
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This semester, I’ve been teaching a brand-new course, entitled CS395T AI
Alignment Theory. Here’s the course description: The astounding progress of
AI ove...
Doei!-dag, uitpakdag: Linux smartphone
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Het is weer Doeidag! Elke eerste zondag van de maand aandacht voor hoe je
jezelf weer een stapje van BigTech verwijdert. Nou heb ik de afgelopen
jaren al h...
The market will crash if Trump steals the election:
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from Dean Baker All the political experts are telling us that the
Republicans face a shellacking in November. The Democrats seem virtually
certain to win t...
What's the Point of AI, Anyway?
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*The point of AI is profit, dependence and dominance cloaked with Happy
Story Hoopla about super-abundance. We have a super-abundance already--of
malicious...
How deep is Tulainyo Lake?
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Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket
list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly
beaut...
Flawed premises in AI doomerism
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[image: A stack of wavy lines, some more angular waves, a vertical barrier,
lots of pastel ellipses, and a brown ground, with a mechanical flower in
the mi...
Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran
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Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to
find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's
nuclear ...
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...
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...