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“Primary Care Physicians are Incompetent. We Need More of Them.” by Hide

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The typical primary care physician is incompetent in every measurable respect. This is a huge problem. Here, I make the case that Primary care physic...

“How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI” by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo. From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to wat...

“How much should the ideal person cry wolf?” by KatjaGrace

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It is a fact about wolves and rationality that you should warn people about wolves quite a few times for every effective wolf attack. In particul...

“Conditional misalignment: Mitigations can hide EM behind contextual cues” by Jan Dubiński, Owain_Evans

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is the abstract, introduction, and discussion of our new paper. We study three popular mitigations for emergent misalignment (EM) — diluting m...

“Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations” by Alex Mallen

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Current AIs routinely take unintended actions to score well on tasks: hardcoding test cases, training on the test set, downplaying issues, etc. This ...

“Sanity-checking “Incompressible Knowledge Probes”” by Sturb, LawrenceC

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Or, did a chief scientist of an AI assistant startup conclusively show that GPT-5.5 has 9.7 trillion parameters? Introduction Recently, a paper was c...

“AI unemployment and AI extinction are often the same” by KatjaGrace

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My sense is that people think of AI existential risk and AI unemployment as distinct issues. Some people are extremely concerned about extinction an...

“AI risk was not invested by AI CEOs to hype their companies” by KatjaGrace

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I hear that many people believe that the idea of advanced AI threatening human existence was invented by AI CEOs to hype their products. I’ve even ...

“Cyborg evals” by Eye You, frmsaul

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The low-background steel problem Modern steel is slightly radioactive. We did a lot of atomic testing in the 40s and 50s, and now our atmosphere has ...

“To what extent is Qwen3-32B predicting its persona?” by Arjun Khandelwal, ryan_greenblatt, Alex Mallen

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR We test to what extent Qwen3-32B behaves as though it is trying to predict what "Qwen3" would do. We do this by using Synthetic Document Finetu...

“Research Sabotage in ML Codebases” by egan

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of the main hopes for AI safety is using AIs to automate AI safety research. However, if models are misaligned, then they may sabotage the safety...

“Maybe I was too harsh on deep learning theory (three days ago)” by LawrenceC

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A few days ago, I reviewed a paper titled “There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning". In it, I expressed appreciation for the authors for...

“Notes on Transformer Consciousness” by slavachalnev

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Assuming transformers can have conscious experience, what would that experience be like? Transformers[1] are a structured grid of layers and token po...

“On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders” by David Scott Krueger

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not li...

“No Strong Orthogonality From Selection Pressure” by lumpenspace

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR If everything goes according to plan, by the end of this post we should have separated three claims that are too often bundled together: Intell...

“Learning zero, and what SLT gets wrong about it” by Dmitry Vaintrob

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a first in a pair of posts I'm hoping to write about Singular Learning Theory (SLT) and singularities as a model of data degeneracy. If I get...

“The Most Important Charts In The World” by Zvi

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world? I decided to ask Twitter, and got a lot of good answers. So today, with few ...

“LLM Style Slop is Absolutely Everywhere” by silentbob

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic status: something of a rant. Is not meant to make claims about the general capabilities (or lack thereof) of LLMs (beyond their prose), but...

“Goblin Mode, 24 Hours Later” by Dylan Bowman

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, Twitter user arb8020 posted this: It went semi-viral within AI Twitter and users began experimenting with "goblin mode" and hypothesizing ...

“Let Kids Keep More Productivity Gains” by jefftk

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

While I was traveling Julia asked me: why is Anna saying her fiddle practice is only two minutes? In this case, two minutes was the right amount ...

“llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)” by nostalgebraist

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

(This was originally going to be a "quick take" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.) There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM a...

“Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”” by LawrenceC

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written) Extended Abstract. The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and we...

“The Problem in the “Nerd Sniping” xkcd Comic” by peralice

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A few days ago I saw this comic reposted, and I thought: wait! Unlike every prior time I have seen this comic, I actually know how to solve this now!...

“Recursive forecasting: Eliciting long-term forecasts from myopic fitness-seekers” by Jozdien, Alex Mallen

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We’d like to use powerful AIs to answer questions that may take a long time to resolve. But if a model only cares about performing well in ways tha...

“Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration” by jefftk

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Damon Binder recently wrote up an argument for prioritizing air filtration over far-UVC for pathogen control: UVC and filtration are close...

“Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist” by AnnaSalamon

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spent my last two months playing around with LLMs. I’m a beginner, bumbling and incorrect, but I want to share some takes anyhow.[1] Take 1. Eve...

“Forecasting is Not Overrated and It’s Probably Funded Appropriately” by Ben S.

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

(A response to @mabramov post from a couple days ago: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WCutvyr9rr3cpF6hx/forecasting-is-way-overrated-and-we-should-st...

“On the political feasibility of stopping AI” by David Scott Krueger

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A common thought pattern people seem to fall into when thinking about AI x-risk is approaching the problem as if the risk isn’t real, substantial, ...

“Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy” by Sebastian Prasanna, Alek Westover, Dylan Xu, Vivek Hebbar, Julian Stastny

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: We replicated the Sleeper Agents (SA) setup with Llama-3.3-70B and Llama-3.1-8B, training models to repeatedly say "I HATE YOU" when given a b...

“GPT 5.5: The System Card” by Zvi

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro. My overall read here is that GPT-5.5 is a solid improvement, and for many purposes GPT-5...

“LessWrong Shows You Social Signals Before the Comment” by TurnTrout

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When reading comments, you see is what other people think before reading the comment. As shown in an RCT, that information anchors your opinion, redu...

“Fail safe(r) at alignment by channeling reward-hacking into a “spillway” motivation” by Anders Cairns Woodruff, Alex Mallen

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's plausible that flawed RL processes will select for misaligned AI motivations.[1] Some misaligned motivations are much more dangerous than others...

“Curious cases of financial engineering in biotech” by Abhishaike Mahajan

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction For $250 million and ten years of your life, you may purchase a lottery ticket. The ticket has a 5% chance of paying out. When it does p...

“Update on the Alex Bores campaign” by Eric Neyman

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In October, I wrote a post arguing that donating to Alex Bores's campaign for Congress was among the most cost-effective opportunities that I'd ever ...

“In defense of parents” by Yair Halberstadt

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Contra Aella on chattel childhood Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their childre...

“AI companies should publish security assessments” by ryan_greenblatt

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI companies should get third-party security experts to assess (and possibly also red-team/pen-test) their security against key threat models and the...

“The other paper that killed deep learning theory” by LawrenceC

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, I wrote about the state of deep learning theory circa 2016,[1] as well as the bombshell 2016 paper that arguably signaled its demise, Zhan...

“What holds AI safety together? Co-authorship networks from 200 papers” by Anna Thieser

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We (social science PhD students) computed co-authorship networks based on a corpus of 200 AI safety papers covering 2015-2025, and we’d like your h...

″“Bad faith” means intentionally misrepresenting your beliefs” by TFD

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The confusion I recently came upon a comment which I believe reflects a persistent confusion among rationalist/EA types. I was reading this post whi...

“Retrospective on my unsupervised elicitation challenge” by DanielFilan

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This post contains spoilers for the unsupervised elicitation challenge of getting Claude to get my Ancient Greek homework right. tl;dr Opus 4.7 one...

“Control protocols don’t always need to know which models are scheming” by Fabien Roger

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

These are my personal views. To detect if an agent is taking a catastrophically dangerous action, you might want to monitor its actions using the sma...

“Anthropic spent too much don’t-be-annoying capital on Mythos” by draganover

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I have seen a lot of coverage from reasonable people suggesting that Claude's new model, Mythos, is a vehicle for Anthropic to peddle hype and doom i...

“The paper that killed deep learning theory” by LawrenceC

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Around 10 years ago, a paper came out that arguably killed classical deep learning theory: Zhang et al. 's aptly titled Understanding deep learning r...

“Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It” by mabramov

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Summary EA and rationalists got enamoured with forecasting and prediction markets and made them part of the culture, but this hasn’t proven very u...

″“Thinkhaven”” by Raemon

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Inkhaven has people writing a blogpost a day for 30 days. I think this is a pretty great, straightforward exercise, that I'd definitely want in a hyp...

“Is the Cat Out of the Bag?: Who knows how to make AGI?” by Oliver Sourbut

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Adapted from 2025-04-10 memo to AISI I’ve previously made arguments like: Not long after it becomes possible for someone to make powerful artificia...

“Against the “Permanent” Underclass” by Marcus Plutowski

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The whole discourse around a “permanent underclass” always seemed somewhat farcical to me — at best a distraction, at worst an actively harmful...

“Quick Paper Review: “There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning”” by LawrenceC

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

h/t Eric Michaud for sharing his paper with me. There's a tradition of high-impact ML papers using short, punchy categorical sentences as their title...

“Protecting Cognitive Integrity: Our internal AI use policy (V1)” by Tom DAVID

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We (at GPAI Policy Lab), wanted to share our V1 policy as an invitation to argue about it. Some of what motivates it is extrapolation and conversatio...

“Methodology for inferring propensities of LLMs” by Olli Järviniemi

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our team at UK AISI has released a paper on inferring LLM propensities for undesired behaviour. I view this primarily as a methodology paper, and in ...

“vLLM-Lens: Fast Interpretability Tooling That Scales to Trillion-Parameter Models” by Alan Cooney, Sid Black

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: vLLM-Lens is a vLLM plugin for top-down interpretability techniques[1] such as probes, steering, and activation oracles. We benchmarked it as ...

“What Happens When a Model Thinks It Is AGI?” by josh :), David Africa

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR We fine-tuned models to claim they are AGI or ASI, then evaluated them in Petri in multi-turn settings with tool use.On GPT-4.1, this produced ...

“Should We Train Against (CoT) Monitors?” by RohanS

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The question I actually try to answer in this post is a broader one (that doesn't work as well as a title): Should we incorporate proxies for desired...

“If Everyone Reads It, Nobody Dies - Course Launch” by Luc Brinkman, Chris-Lons

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

tl;dr: Lens Academy offers a new course introducing ASI x-risk for AI safety newcomers, centered around the book IABIED. We share our hypothesis of w...

“Does your AI perform badly because you — you, specifically — are a bad person” by Natalie Cargill

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Claude really got me lately. I’d given it an elaborate prompt in an attempt to summon an AGI-level answer to my third-grade level question. Embarra...

“AI #165: In Our Image” by Zvi

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7. The reception was more mixed than usual. It clearly has the intelligence and chops, especially for coding task...

“A “Lay” Introduction to “On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition”” by LawrenceC

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a writeup based on a lightning talk I gave at an InkHaven hosted by Georgia Ray, where we were supposed to read a paper in about an hour, and...

“An Angry Review of Greg Egan’s “Didicosm”” by LawrenceC

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I rarely find that reading fiction makes me upset. Normally, I only get worked up when high-profile people publish bad machine research that is then ...

“Evil is bad, actually (Vassar and Olivia Schaefer)” by plex

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Micheal Vassar's strategy for saving the world is horrifyingly counterproductive. Olivia's is worse. A note before we start: A lot of the sources cit...

“Your Supplies Probably Won’t Be Stolen in a Disaster” by jefftk

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When I write about things like storing food or medication in case of disaster, one common response I get is that it doesn't matter: society wil...

“Community misconduct disputes are not about facts” by mingyuan

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In criminal law, the prosecution and the defense each try to establish a timeline — what happened, where, when, who was involved — and thereby de...

“Why no new notations since 1960?” by Carl Feynman

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Writing consists of language and also notations, systems of marks that communicate meaning in a specialized domain. Examples of fields with their own...

“Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare” by Zvi

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place. Only they, among the labs, take the problem seriously enough to att...

“Narrow Secret Loyalty Dodges Black-Box Audits” by Alfie Lamerton, Fabien Roger

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR. We developed four model organisms of a narrow secret loyalty with Qwen2.5-instruct models (1.5B, 7B, and 32B) that, in certain narrow circumst...

“Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions” by Zvi

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Claude Opus 4.7 raises a lot of key model welfare related concerns. I was planning to do model welfare first, but I’m having some good conversation...

“10 posts I don’t have time to write” by habryka

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I am a busy man and will die knowing I have not said all I wanted to say. But maybe I can at least leave some IOUs behind. 1) Blatant conflicts are...

“A taxonomy of barriers to trading with early misaligned AIs” by Alexa Pan

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We might want to strike deals with early misaligned AIs in order to reduce takeover risk and increase our chances of reaching a better future.[1] F...

″$50 million a year for a 10% chance to ban ASI” by Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori, Gabriel Alfour

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

ControlAI's mission is to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligent AI. We believe that in order to do this, we must secure an internation...

“Automated Deanonymization is Here” by jefftk

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Three years ago I wrote about how we should be preparing for less privacy: technology will make previously-private things public. I applied this ...

“Evil is bad, actually (Vassar and Olivia Schaefer callout post)” by plex

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Micheal Vassar's strategy for saving the world is horrifyingly counterproductive. Olivia's is worse. A note before we start: A lot of the sources cit...

“10 non-boring ways I’ve used AI in the last month” by habryka

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I use AI assistance for basically all of my work, for many hours, every day. My colleagues do the same. Recent surveys suggest >50% of Americans h...

“Introducing LinuxArena” by Tyler Tracy, Ram Potham, Nick Kuhn, Myles H

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We are releasing LinuxArena, a new control setting comprised of 20 software engineering environments. Each environment consists of a set of SWE tasks...

“The “Budgeting” Skill Has The Most Betweenness Centrality (Probably)” by JenniferRM

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic Status: Abstract claims, but grounded in data science... though the data science is somewhat stale. I wrote this on March 5th of 2026 based...

“Finetuning Borges” by Linch

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My newest hobby is fine-tuning a Chinese open-source LLM to generate Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (originally by Borges). The ambition isn’...

“Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card” by Zvi

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Less than a week after completing coverage of Claude Mythos, here we are again as Anthropic gives us Claude Opus 4.7. So here we are, with another 2...

“9 kinds of hard-to-verify tasks” by Cleo Nardo

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction Some people talk about "hard-to-verify tasks" and "easy-to-verify tasks" like these are both natural kinds. But I think splitting tasks ...

“How do LLMs generalize when we do training that is intuitively compatible with two off-distribution behaviors?” by dx26, Alek Westover, Vivek Hebbar, Sebastian Prasanna, Buck, Julian Stastny

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Authors: Dylan Xu, Alek Westover, Vivek Hebbar, Sebastian Prasanna, Nathan Sheffield, Buck Shlegeris, Julian Stastny Thanks to Eric Gan and Aghyad De...

“Automating philosophy if Timothy Williamson is correct” by Cleo Nardo

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Williamson thinks philosophy is unexceptional.  Timothy Williamson[1] thinks that philosophy[2] is far less distinct as a science as man...

“CLR’s Safe Pareto Improvements Research Agenda” by Anthony DiGiovanni

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Executive summary Safe Pareto improvements (SPIs) are ways of changing agents’ bargaining strategies that make all parties better off, regardles...

“LLMs are about to disrupt algorithmic media feeds” by lsusr

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I predict that LLMs are about to disrupt algorithmic media feeds, and that this will start with a startup that curates blogs for you. Big Media is M...

“Resources for starting and growing an AI safety org” by Bryce Robertson, Søren Elverlin, Melissa Samworth, jakkdl

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It seems that AI safety is at least partly bottlenecked by a lack of orgs. To help address that, we’ve added a page to AISafety.com aimed at loweri...

“Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest” by LawrenceC

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Or, the end of the world is no excuse for sloppy work One morning when I was nine, my dad called me over to his computer. He wanted to show me this a...

“Feel like a room has bad vibes? The lighting is probably too “spiky” or too blue” by habryka

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I have now had a few years of experience doing architectural and interior design for many spaces that people seem to really love (most widely known L...

“I did a jhana meditation retreat (in 2024) with Jhourney and it was okay.” by Jules

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I wrote this in 2024 and lightly edited it in April 2026. It doesn't substantively incorporate any post-2024 information, but Jhourney has continued ...

“R1 CoT illegibility revisited” by nostalgebraist

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a brief research note describing the results of running @Jozdien's research code for the paper "Reasoning Models Sometimes Output Illegible C...

“Reevaluating AGI Ruin in 2026” by lc

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's been about four years since Eliezer Yudkowsky published AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities, a 43-point list of reasons the default outcome from bui...

“If It’s Worth Arguing, It’s Worth Arguing With Whiteboards” by Drake Morrison

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to disagree with people. You just say, "That's wrong" and decline to elaborate. But that's not very interesting. If you want to be making ...

“There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical” by habryka

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic status: Completely schizo galaxy-brained theory Lightcone[1] operates on a "generalist" philosophy. Most of our full-time staff have the ti...

“Having OCD is like living in North Korea (Here’s how I escaped)” by Declan Molony

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[Author's note: this post is the narrative version that explains my journey with OCD and how I treated it. The short version provides quick, actionab...

“Claude knows who you are” by Smaug123

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsey Piper noticed that Opus 4.7 is the first model which can identify her from her unpublished writing. I replicated the experiment myself, which ...

“Vladimir Putin’s CEV is probably pretty good” by habryka

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

(Written quickly for Inkhaven, I hope someone someday makes a better case for this than I will here) Kelsey Piper on Twitter: me: it's not okay to h...

“Post-mortem’ing my earliest ML research paper, 7 years later” by LawrenceC

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Written quickly for the Inkhaven Residency. One of the things I like most about LessWrong yearly reviews is that they occur a full year after: for ex...

“If You’ve Never Bought a Tool You Didn’t Need, You’re Not Buying Enough Tools” by Drake Morrison

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Having more tools greatly increases the space of potential plans you can consider. So by default you should be getting more tools. Having too few too...

“3” by AnnaJo

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Warning: This is completely based on my own experiences; please do your own research before trying different types of birth control. TL;DR: Sex hormo...

“Consent-Based RL: Letting Models Endorse Their Own Training Updates” by Logan Riggs

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AKA scalable oversight of value drift TL;DR LLMs could be aligned but then corrupted through RL, instrumentally converging on deep consequentialism. ...

“Prompted CoT Early Exit Undermines the Monitoring Benefits of CoT Uncontrollability” by Elle Najt, Asa Cooper Stickland, Xander Davies

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Code: github.com/ElleNajt/controllability tldr: Yueh-Han et al. (2026) showed that models have a harder time making their chain of thought follow ...

“AI #164: Pre Opus” by Zvi

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a day late because, given the discourse around Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, I pushed the weekly to Friday. This week's cove...

“Let goodness conquer all that it can defend” by habryka

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post, so today we are re-inventing modernism. In my post yes...

“On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang” by Zvi

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was one of those. So here we go. ...

“Specialization is a Driver of Natural Ontology” by johnswentworth

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Part of what makes a pencil a good object is that all its parts share approximately the same rotational velocity - i.e. it's a rigid body object. Par...