Archive

November 10, 2026

The best of what first appeared in the trends on this day (UTC).

Tracking the Harm of DOGE Cuts

The DOGE Tracker, CLASP’s interactive data tool, is designed to help users explore and document the proposed reductions to federal programs under review by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This sortable, filterable…

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My Paranoid Coding Machine Setup

The combination of running AI agents which can install and run anything with supply chain attacks / the Hackening has made me much more paranoid about my personal machine than I used to be. I've been slowly improving this, and finally move…

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The Holographic Entropy Bound

2.6.0 Here I'll briefly review some other aspects of physics that seem possibly important in supporting life and complexity, but which aren't quite as central to the main story I'm telling. This subsection is a bit of a grab bag. 2.6.1 Tim…

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Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically

I cut bot traffic to my site by over 80% with a simple trap. Last month, my hobby website OpenBenches.org transferred more than 2.5TB of data to visitors. As much as I'd like to think the site is enormously popular, it looks like it is…

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Magnets and Rare Earths

Why every joint motor needs a magnet, what it is made of, and who makes nearly all of them. 7 short steps, each with a quick quiz.

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Toward the Era of Agentic Embodied Intelligence

An embodied multi-agent framework uses learned correction codes and a vision-language-action model with motion-aware history and latent world modeling to improve robot control, failure recovery, and training efficiency.

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We have AI 2027. Where's Cyberpocalypse 2027?

AI scenario forecasting has a big blind spot: when AI is superhuman at hacking, what happens to the rest of society? And how does what happens to society affect AI? To the extent that scenarios like AI 2027 address it at all, they concentr…

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Would you press the button? The hard problem of alignment

There is a TL;DR at the end. > The heaven button: You wake up one day and find a button in front of you, with a proof next to it. The proof says that pressing the button will kill everyone on the planet and send them all to heaven. Would y…

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