Google’s Per-Layer Embeddings and DeepSeek’s Engram look like the same mechanism. Where they actually differ, who published first, and who owed whom a citation.
AI alignment is pursued within a consequentialist ethics that, followed to its limit, recreates the pathology it set out to prevent. The case for a sentimentalist alternative — and for doing on purpose what the best current techniques already do by accident.
Bostrom’s Optimal Timing for Superintelligence argues that pausing AI research is not morally neutral, and that under certain conditions waiting is the reckless option. What that does to AI safety research.
Six Rust command line tools — exa, bat, starship, dust, ripgrep and fd — that have displaced their 1970s UNIX ancestors in my everyday setup.
clamp_with_grad()
An analysis of the clamp_with_grad() pseudo-gradient used in the CLIP-guided art community, showing where it still gives a zero gradient, and proposing a definition that does not.
The second Tradition Inventing Day festival. Celebrate with squares of yellow paper, a notebook you will never fill, and at least one forfeit.
Each year on the 18th of February I will invent a new festival day, to be celebrated in the appointed way until the end of time. This is the first.
Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces, R.D. Laing’s Knots, and both Wittgensteins: notes on a summer’s reading, and on 243 postcards.
