A Tale of Three Contracts
The attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations.
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Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
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How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?
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Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk
This is the long version of what happened so far.
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Is AI already killing people by accident?
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
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Did Trump just overplay his hand?
We will learn a lot about Silicon Valley in the upcoming days
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Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions
”No LLM, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system. It's ludicrous even to suggest it.”
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Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?
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Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?
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Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck
Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck
I always wanted a personal knowledge assistant based on my notes. One that uses Obsidian’s backlinks and connections to surface ideas I’ve forgotten or never thought to link together. So I built one. A RAG system that runs locally with DuckDB as a vector database, then syncs to MotherDuck for a serverless web app running entirely in the browser via WASM. Think of it like J.A.R.V.I.S1 for your markdown files: search about a topic, and it shows connected notes up to two hops away, semantically…
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Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable
Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable
This is a follow-up to my part 1 of Switching macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy, where I documented my first months with Arch Linux and [[Omarchy]], after switching from 15 years of using macOS and Windows on and off at work since 2003. Back then, I had a checklist of basics I needed before I could commit to Linux as a daily driver: Obsidian, a Raycast-like launcher for fuzzy finding files and folders, screenshots (Snagit), daylight adjustment (f.lux), calendar events in the top bar. Those were…
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