Claire Wang
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- Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious - by Matt Beard35 savers
- Stanford Digital Brain Project to model the human brain | Stanford Report1 savers
- Humans on AI #66 || October 30, 20262 savers
- Digital hygiene | karpathy18 savers
- Easy improvements to personal opsec | Kevin Liu4 savers
- PCBs without the magic smoke, using agents8 savers
- Personal Statement on AI Risk24 savers
- Neural networks are not already clean — LessWrong6 savers
- Consider chilling out in 2028 — LessWrong8 savers
- Is clinical trial abundance having a moment?2 savers
- Neural Networks Are Already Clean55 savers
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- GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities \ Anthropic7 savers
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- Introducing System One Models and Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog21 savers
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- Introducing Astera’s New Residents - Astera4 savers
- Alignment & Succession: Toward a Future Sculpted by Human Wills1 savers
- Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI | OpenAI15 savers
- Craft, engineered · wild22 savers
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- How, when and why to use agentic AI in our neuroscience labs | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives1 savers
- OpenAI – Hugging Face Incident Technical Report4 savers
- A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life | RAND4 savers
- What will more intelligence actually do for us?3 savers
- Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work9 savers
- Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security · Gwern.net30 savers
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | OpenAI14 savers
- 100 things I know - by Mari Andrew - Out of the Blue9 savers
- An underleveraged modality in neuroscience | Abhi Upadhyay13 savers
- BCIs and the ecosystem of modular minds2 savers
- Paving the way for agents in biology \ Anthropic5 savers
- How To Scale Your Model34 savers
- A moveable feast - by Uzay - zephyr song2 savers
- Transformers Explained Visually (Part 3): Multi-head Attention, deep dive | by Ketan Doshi | Towards Data Science3 savers
- Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy17 savers
- Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software5 savers
- Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 \ Anthropic4 savers
- How China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics12 savers
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- Decoding Emotion from EEG: Introducing NOVA | Alljoined Blog8 savers
- Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon raises $500M for Flourish, a brain-inspired AI efficiency startup valued at $2.5B4 savers
- A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour | Nature2 savers
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- Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)46 savers
- Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years — LessWrong2 savers
- Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go6 savers
- Having a very Chinese time - by Theo Bleier7 savers
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- Cognitive Security Task Force2 savers
- Empty Screenings2 savers
- How to Get HQ to Notice Your Idea | Slacker News2 savers
- Mythologies by David Lehman | Poetry Foundation4 savers
- Do Thing, Do One Thing49 savers
- The Aadam Jacobs Tapes2 savers
- Recurrent neural networks - Scholarpedia1 savers
- Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA | Alljoined Blog8 savers
- Introducing Atlas RF Studio: Toward a Foundation Model for Electromagnetics | ${title}4 savers
- Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) - LessWrong5 savers
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- "the digital sphinx: can a worm brain control a fly body?" TheSphinx_2026.pdf2 savers
- No. 129 - Soda Stereo’s “Persiana Americana” changed my life1 savers
- The Search for Modern China | bookshelf2 savers
- Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop | the singularity is nearer3 savers
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- anhedonia | writing6 savers
- escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergrads43 savers
- Introduction to Real-time Systems3 savers
- Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin12 savers
- AI in 2025: gestalt — LessWrong11 savers
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- The Anti-Social Century - The Atlantic4 savers
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- The Bay Area is cursed - by Sasha Chapin6 savers
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- Architecting Discovery: A Model for How Engineers Can Help Invent Tools for Neuroscience: Neuron2 savers
- My techno-optimism27 savers
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I watched you bring people together and make them jump into ice cold water because you felt that man ought to be made to feel something
A moveable feast - by Uzay - zephyr songWith only high-level human input, Mythos 5’s trained model outperformed a recent model published in the journal Science—despite being 100 times smaller.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 \ AnthropicNine of the 14 protein targets from this study (shown below) yielded strong candidates for drug design that we’re currently investigating.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 \ Anthropiccreate better translation layers between what the human wants and what the machine is capable of doing
Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may gothe thing that matters most in drug R&D is not how many candidates you can test, but how well your tools for evaluating those candidates correlate with what actually works in humans
Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may gothe passive ones (scrolling, consuming) and scattered ones (I know well the perils of the man of multiple projects) and instead replace them with active and focused ones.
Do Thing, Do One ThingAs you say, one’s past, one’s childhood, one’s growing up is always there to be revived, is always there to be made apparent in one’s current life. There is no “de-experiencing” as it were, there is only “cover-up”. How well we do it, and how well we camouflage what we don’t want to live with in ourselves, is our way of going on with life.
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen ShepardKS: Let’s put on some music. TY: Take care of yourself. KS: I will. TY: So, what do I do? I just …
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen Shepardthat life without her seems okay, largely because her death was what she wanted; it didn’t happen to her, it happened because of her.
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen ShepardI am actually finding that the world is an easier place without her in many ways than it was with her. We had a very good extended goodbye (starting in January when she fell and was living in rehab). That coincided with her decision to apply to Pegasos, and that made her easier in her own skin, easier with the world and the others in it, including me.
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen ShepardDo you remember what you talked to me about at dinner after Grandma’s funeral? You said you wanted to break the cycle that had defined your relationship with her. I assured you that I thought we were already doing that. Part of how we were doing that is trusting that the other is always acting out of care and love.
The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen Shepardinverse design problem is with conditional generation: targeting the exploration of the search space to only surface candidates that have the desired physical or electrical properties
Using Self-Correcting Search to Accelerate Materials DiscoveryMany teachers were lifelong SRC professors and loved their jobs.
College at Age Sixteen: What Is Intelligence For?My scalp was tingling. I’d lied when I’d told Roy that I didn’t care about my hair. Of course I care about my hair. Every day I grimace in the mirror as a little more of it vanishes from the top of my head. Whenever someone takes a photo of me from above or behind, I wince at the horrifying glimpse of pale, naked scalp. But I’d never done anything about it. I’d just watched and whinged and let it happen.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissThe last time Donald had dropped in on his slaves at Cluely, he’d gifted them two Penguin Classics: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss“We need to ban the word ‘agency.’ I’m a dog.”
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissAs far as he was concerned, the fact that tech people were tripping over themselves to take part in his stunt just confirmed his generally low impression of them. “They have too much money and nothing going on. They have no swag, no smoke, no motion, no hoes. That’s all you need to know.”
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss“I could build enterprise software or whatever,” he told me, “but what’s the craziest thing I could do? I would rather have an interesting life than a couple hundred million dollars in my bank account. Racing cum is definitely interesting.” I found Eric very hard not to like.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissMost people are condemned to trudge along in the furrow that the world has dug for them, but a few deranged dreamers really can wish themselves into whatever life they want.
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss“I sort of randomly got in there, and then I thought it was really fun,” he told me.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissI was on Discord servers. I was on Slack.”
Child’s Play, by Sam Krissric Zhu might be the most highly agentic person I’ve ever met.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissMany of these people are smart enough that they could answer their own questions, but they want someone else to do it, because then they don’t have to have this terrifying encounter with their own humanity.”
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissHe spent most of the dinner fidgeting contentedly in a corner as his own acolytes spoke over him. When there weren’t enough crackers to go with the cheese spread, he fetched some, murmuring to himself, “I will open the crackers so you will have crackers and be happy.”
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissOnce, San Francisco drew in runaway children, artists, and freaks; today it’s an enormous magnet for highly agentic young men. I set out to meet them.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissI developed a fascination for rock and roll and I increasingly wondered if this was something that could only be expressed in the English language.
No. 129 - Soda Stereo’s “Persiana Americana” changed my lifeIn theory, whoever deployed any given agent is responsible for its actions. In practice, finding out whose computer it’s running on is impossible. Moltbook only requires an unverified X account to join, and nothing is needed to set up an OpenClaw agent running on your own machine.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The ShamblogThey assert, with magisterial certainty and zero expertise, that mental illness could not cause the bad behaviors that Kanye West is guilty of, and therefore no one is obligated to give him any grace - any reasonable accommodation - for his mental illness. QED, Kanye, QED.
It's "Mental Illness Doesn't Do That" Season Once AgainAnd if there’s one thing I hate in this world, it’s moral convenience - moral judgements people develop because it makes life easier for them, practically or emotionally or socially, rather than because they’re actually correct.
It's "Mental Illness Doesn't Do That" Season Once AgainI hope that the US will stop attributing all of China’s successes to stealing. If such a program would be sufficient for building a world-class industry, then American spooks should dedicate their formidable capabilities to extracting Chinese industrial secrets.
2025 letter | Dan WangNo president would have gotten around to starting a project that has no chance of being completed in his term.
2025 letter | Dan WangAmerican academics wouldn’t have needed Trump’s insults to act on their Europhile impulses. And yet European initiatives have not yet been able to brain drain much of this class.
2025 letter | Dan WangI also watched Ursula von der Leyen visit Trump in the White House to graciously accept his EU tariffs. It’s already been clear that China has begun to maul European industry.
2025 letter | Dan WangSince Trump imposed tariffs in April, the US has lost around 65,000 manufacturing jobs.
2025 letter | Dan WangIt was so, but who can be sure that Xi will not greet them differently once they revive the economy?
2025 letter | Dan WangI’ve had Silicon Valley friends tell me that they are planning a trip to China nearly every month this year.
2025 letter | Dan WangOr they miss mom. People move for all sorts of reasons, so I’m reluctant to believe that the US has a durable talent advantage.
2025 letter | Dan WangCoverage of Silicon Valley increasingly reminds me of coverage of China, where a legacy media reporter might parachute in, write a dispatch on something that looks deranged, and leave without moving past caricature
2025 letter | Dan WangI want to write of our love, I want to love you writing, I want to have you while writing, nothing else,
Italian novelist's love letters turn political - The New York Timesthe letters had as much to say about the growing disillusionment with Communism that Calvino — and part of the Italian left — developed after the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. "It's the existential crisis of a generation," he said.
Italian novelist's love letters turn political - The New York TimesHe retorted that the left in Italy never attained any power in television, cinema or, in the case of political parties, publishing. "From the time it was born, television was a government brand. And now Berlusconian in its entirety,"
Italian novelist's love letters turn political - The New York TimesI can do that kind of writing, but it tends to go off, like fruit. I don’t like it very much even when it works. I think that sort of truth-telling writing is as big a lie as the deliberate fantasies I construct. It’s based on the fallacy of naturalism. There’s a direct line of descent from the naturalistic theater which leads you straight down to the dregs of bad theater, bad thinking and bad feeling
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesMr. Stoppard often wrote about writers
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York Times“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” had its debut at the so-called fringe of the Edinburgh Festival, where a single review, by Ronald Bryden in The Observer — he called it an “erudite comedy, punning, far-fetched, leaping from depth to dizziness” — saved it from obscurity and changed the trajectory of Mr. Stoppard’s career.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesHe began “Arcadia” with a precocious 13-year-old girl asking her tutor: “Septimus, what is carnal embrace?” — to which the nonplused but quick-witted Septimus replies, “Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.”
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York Timesonce pointing out that there was no use in being quoted if you weren’t going to be quotable
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesIn a kind of apologia for a lifetime of obliviousness to the oppression and tragedy of many of his relatives, he concludes with a scene of a Tom Stoppard-like character, an escapee as a child from encroaching fascism, visiting the city of his birth.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesPeople don’t cry at his plays; they ponder. Yet anyone who looked hard enough could always see the fragile, hopeful heart beneath the cerebral glitter in Mr. Stoppard’s work during the past 40 years.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesI burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York TimesHis work alluded to, commented on or borrowed from classic works of literature and philosophy, from the Greeks and Romans to Samuel Beckett and Vaclav Havel.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 - The New York Times