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Against strawmanning unilateral pauses

Summary: Scott Alexander’s Against SURA post is arguing against a strawman version of unilateral pauses. He admits as much deep into the post. I think his conclusions fail against stronger pause plans for conditional or limited unilateral…

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Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com

Last week, I saw an article on the front page of the New York Times website reporting that a critical vulnerability in PHP had been found. The article, and others like it, claimed any attacker could achieve arbitrary remote code execution…

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heydamir/unslop

A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface

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wangzan101/Mika

An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.

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Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused

If you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that. Ideally, when you do stop, tell everyone else to also stop building it. That is certainly the obvious, first-level thing to do. You need a damn good reason…

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