Turns out impulsivity can be explained, at least in part, by a rational assessment of the stability of your environment. If you believe that the setting is unreliable, it just makes more sense to eat the one marshmallow now. Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

In August, the US passed a massive $369B bill for tackling climate change. There's hope! youtube.com/watch?v=qw5zzr…

Is the current optimism around AI similar to the nuclear optimism in the 1950s (the atomic age)?

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If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? The Wright Brothers' approach to inventing the airplane is one case study:

For anyone thinking of doing a CodeGen startup: Low value: generating basic code from basic instructions High value: generating context-specific code from detailed instructions

OpenAI just killed the psychedelics industry.

Your automated vibecoded AI startup be like:

"You can have any colour you want, as long as it's purple." GPT-5 when vibecoding a web page for you.

what an insane difference a year makes sora 1 (left) vs. sora 2 (right) both using the same prompt