Understanding Trust: Project Update
Published on January 17, 2026 9:19 PM GMTThis is a brief note on what I…
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Focusing on Flourishing Even When Survival is Unlikely (I)
Published on January 17, 2026 6:47 PM GMT1. The CaseYou've probably heard something like this…
The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Published on January 17, 2026 5:28 PM GMTIn 1654, a Jesuit polymath named Athanasius Kircher…
Japan is a bank
Published on January 17, 2026 4:33 PM GMTAmong developed countries, Japan has long had the…
Turning Down the Overthinking: How Cathodal Brain Stimulation Could Transform Stuttering Therapy
Published on January 17, 2026 2:54 PM GMTThe cruelest irony of stuttering is that trying…
What Washington Says About AGI
Published on January 17, 2026 5:43 AM GMTI spent a few hundred dollars on Anthropic…
Lightcone is hiring a generalist, a designer, and a campus operations co-lead
Published on January 17, 2026 1:47 AM GMTLightcone is hiring! We build beautiful things for…
Applying to MATS: What the Program Is Like, and Who It’s For
Published on January 17, 2026 12:25 AM GMTApplication deadline: Three days remaining! MATS Summer 2026…
Forfeiting Ill-Gotten Gains
Published on January 17, 2026 12:20 AM GMT It's a holiday. The cousins are over,…
Is It Reasoning or Just a Fixed Bias?
Published on January 16, 2026 9:43 PM GMTThis is my first mechanistic interpretability blog post!…