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Meta famously created an internal AI-usage leaderboard in pursuit of tokenmaxxing. I thought this backwards incentive structure was an anomaly until my friend who works at <other major tech company> told me that his company has one too. Token usage leaderboards are obviously stupid because of incentives. My friend was...

Last year, in 2025, a team of forecasters published AI 2027, a science fiction story about how and AI future might evolve under an international treaty limiting the development of powerful AI systems with the deliberate purpose of influencing AI policy. Though AI 2027 is the most popular story of...

Here are the results of our New Year Write-Like-Lsusr Masquerade. 3% Meditations on Suffering Meditations on Suffering by MeditationsOnShrimp technically satisfies all of the objective competition criteria. Congratulations on beating the ~8 billion people who did not participate in this tournament. You are in the top 0.00000002%. MeditationsOnShrimp wins this...

It's been a while since I hosted a competition. This time there is prize money! $500. Do you think you're a better writer than me? Now is your chance to prove it. I want to know whether human beings can pass for me. Your mission, should you choose to participate,...

You were born in 2007. From your perspective, the Internet has always existed. Facebook has always existed. Google has always existed. Smartphones have always existed. By the time you became old enough to use social media, social media had already evolved from "nominally social" to "superintelligent hostile optimization system working...

Commercial airplane tickets are divided up into coach, business class, and first class. In 2014, Etihad introduced The Residence, a premium experience above first class. The Residence isn't very popular. The reason The Residence isn't very popular is because of economics. A Residence flight is almost as expensive as a...

Disclaimer: This is Kongo Landwalker's translation of lsusr's fiction Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 9 into russian. Тур министерства по Комнате Тайн был сплошной пропагандой. Карта Мародеров указывала на существование другого входа, находящегося в женском туалете. — Хссс-шсссс сссс, — прошипела Луна имитируя Гарри. Раковина отодвинулась...