i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

I'm going to do my first blinded self-RCT to see what effect caffeine has on me. Each morning for 30 days, after my coffee, I'll blindly take either a 100mg caffeine pill or an empty gelatin capsule. I'll record subjective factors (focus, mood, anxiety level) at set times throughout the day.

Cool report on mechanisms to verify compliance with international AI treaties. International AI cooperation is a sorely neglected research topic compared to how important it will be.

Just watched this incredibly well-made video on how integrated circuits are manufactured and was reminded how high the ceiling of educational resource quality is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...

Thoughtful thread on the recent controversy about scrapes of Bluesky posts and data ethics in general.

I think Bluesky is a good candidate for a standard platform on which academic papers are discussed. It’s open, has traction, and interfaces with the general public as well as researchers. Imagine if every arXiv paper had a link to a Bluesky thread where people could share their thoughts.

Looks like a quite interesting podcast series. I’ve been meaning to study how researchers conceptualize what intelligence is exactly.

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...