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> 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...

I’ve been wearing footwear of the wrong size, material, and shape for as long as I can remember, certainly at least 20 years. Only recently have I fixed this, and I come with great tidings: if you, too, hate wearing shoes, and the industrial revolution and its consequences, it is...

There's a thought that I sometimes hear, and it goes something like this: "We live in the best X of all possible Xs". For example: * Whatever criticism one might have towards modern society, we're still living in the safest and richest time of human history. * However poor one...