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The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and allow the mosquitoes to lay eggs in these buckets. The larvae then feed on Bti and die. I tried this method, and it has been unexpectedly effective. Background...

Charter cities are a great idea. You take a poor country, create a special zone in it where the country won’t exert its usual harmful influence, and allow that special zone to grow to a self-managed city. The idea is that if you just change governance, you can create real...

> We took the specific vulnerabilities Anthropic showcases in their announcement, isolated the relevant code, and ran them through small, cheap, open-weights models. Those models recovered much of the same analysis. Eight out of eight models detected Mythos's flagship FreeBSD exploit, including one with only 3.6 billion active parameters costing...

On 10 April 2026, I organized an ACX/LW/rationality meetup. Initially, I intended for it to be just our regular meetup, and “regular” for Zagreb is between 3 and 10 people having a couple of beers. Skyler of Rationality Meetups contacted me saying that Scott would be in Zagreb in April,...

Disclaimers This essay is me trying to figure out the “edges” of Singer’s argument in Practical Ethics. I’ve written and rewritten it several times, and it bothers me that I don’t reach a particular conclusion. The essay itself remains at the level of “musings” instead of “worked out, internally consistent...

Theory building Programming is theory building [1] . There's a mental process in which a programmer understands the problem, the context in which the problem happens, as well as the solution to it, codified by -- code. In this framework, the code is just a byproduct of the understanding. Whenever...

First of, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a good book. I like it. It was a bit difficult to read because of Conrad's style, but I don't hold it against him, or the book. It's better for it. I will skip the summary, and just share some of...