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I'm especially interested in feedback on the modeling choices — prevalence curves, specificity sliders, and whether (and how) to add correlated errors or adversarial behavior. If a…

An interactive simulator for visualizing how false positives explode in mass screenings for low-prevalence problems. Relevant across diverse domains including security (e.g., Chat …

A lot of what's changed isn't parenting instincts but the systems kids are embedded in. Traffic speed, liability fears, school policies, and surveillance culture all push toward ze…

One underappreciated challenge in geothermal is simply the distribution of usable rock formations — low-prevalence resources. Better drilling reduces the rarity penalty by making m…

Medieval life lacked precision measurement: no clocks, no KPIs, no micro-evaluation. Much of modern stress isn't workload but being quantified. That shift from 'work until the task…

The directional‐ablation approach in Heretic is clever: by identifying residual “refusal directions” and ablating them, they shift the trade-off frontier for the model. In rare‐eve…

Worms are great, but they're not your grandma. So one thing missing from the excitement around this line of work: how little these worm effects generalize to mammals. C. elegans ha…

If an opaque actor can fabricate legal-ish complaints and pressure DNS providers into blocking a site, the system is wide open for abuse. Smaller services without legal teams would…

Hah! Yeah, the bonobo/chimp contrast shows it’s not an inevitability. We just optimized for the wrong equilibrium.

It's really beautiful! Super clean UI. The thing I always want from timezone tools is: “Let me simulate a date after one side has shifted but the other hasn’t.” Humans do badly wit…

Grateful for Breyer's consistent excellent work tracking and opposing these proposals. The Zombie proposal just keeps rising from the dead. The technical/mathematical objections do…