Very clever. Reminds me of HyDE arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
arxiv.org
Doug Turnbull
This pattern of asking a cheap LLM to generate hypothetical / fake classifications that we then later resolve to real ones is one of the dominant way I'm doing query understanding these days softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-…
Aug 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins)
Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.
Fool's Expertise | The Observation Deck
I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of humanity at the (metaphorical!) hands of a computer program, Jensen’s responses seem very reasonable. (With some exception: does this guy really not know his own zip code?!)
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version.The good newsWe have enough evidence now to conclude…— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) August 27, 2026
Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X
Lots of us are hashing out new plagiarism/AI statements to share with our students. Here’s a draft of the last part of my very earnest one. pic.twitter.com/4Nqh7rZDcF— Jeff Melnick (@melnickjeffrey1) September 1, 2026
Analysis | Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
There’s a new AI twist on a travel scam that has fooled people for years. Here’s what you need to know.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…
The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe
A close reading of prophetic fiction in the age of artificial superintelligence
Eigenmorality
This post is about an idea I had around 1997, when I was 16 years old and a freshman computer-science major at Cornell. Back then, I was extremely impressed by a research project called CLEVER, wh…
Interesting footnote on math arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2608.16066v1
Quit Google
AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
Las denuncias de sesgo contra plataformas digitales se multiplican en las elecciones de Brasil
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Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi.risky.biz)
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
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