Friday links: changing the mood

[Note] The improvement to code quality that drops the coverage metric 40%!

Working with an old codebase today, I moved a method from one file to another. CI was happy. Then I realised the method didn’t have any automated tests, so I wrote one. It turns out its entire (new) file didn’t have any,…

Friday assorted links

1. Rob Wiblin interviews Rohin Shah, who leads AGI alignment/safety at DeepMind. 2. Books Arnold Kling has reread. 3. Wemby and Star Wars. 4. Even (especially?) for ontologists, supply is elastic. 5. SSRN is getting wors…

Goodbye To All That

2010s digital media closes up shop.

There Aren't Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat

If we can replace the factory farms that torture animals by the billions, we should!

🌻 conversations on culture in the AI age

my Substack talk and conversation with Benjamín Labatut

“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”

“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”

Summer Fridays, Open Thread

I’m observing summer Fridays here at KDO again this year, which means I (mostly) won’t be posting here on Fridays. If past years are any guide, this doesn’t actually have too much of an effect on how much I work or post……

"AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, "as well as a lot of promising"

"AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, "as well as a lot of promising"

There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them

There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them