HyperAgents that rewrite their own upgrades. “A hyperagent combines the task agent and the meta agent into a single self-referential, modifiable program, such that the mechanism responsible for generating improvements is itself subject to modification.” The idea is simple: let […]
GODMOD3. I’ve written before about Pliny the Liberator, an AI security researcher and LLM jailbreaker extraordinaire. Here’s his latest gift to the public: no sign-ups / guardrails / filters, and totally open source. “the most liberated AI interface ever built! […]
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did. “ATMs did not reduce bank teller employment. But they miss the second half of the story, which is that another technology did. And that technology was the iPhone.” The […]
The science of personality change. “Brian Little says that in the service of important personal projects, we can actually shape-shift for a short period of time in order to achieve our goals.” Olga Khazan explains how you can act like […]
Linus’s Law applies to science, too. The creator of Linux changed software by publishing his code and letting the community find and fix bugs, rather than polish for a long time before releasing. The author argues this works for research […]
Not for human consumption. Amid the FDA’s efforts to regulate peptides, communities on platforms like Telegram are conducting their own lab testing and trials, often without clinical backing. Retatrutide, a new frontrunner in weight loss drugs, shows promise with “28.7% […]
The nutrition wars will never be won. “The universality can be wrong, even when the experience is real.” A good frame for why nutrition debates keep looping: people find what works for their body, then mistake it for a rule […]
AI-generated ads win, as long as users don’t know. “Across studies, we find that genAI-created ads consistently outperform both human-and genAI-modified ads, increasing click-through rates by up to 19% in field settings.” Visual generative AI shows more promise in creating […]
A way to rejuvenate the immune system. Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination, which is evidence of boosted immune reaction. ~ learn […]
How exercise can lower Alzheimer’s risk. “Now, closely examining cells from geriatric animals’ blood-brain barriers, the researchers noticed that a damaging protein, known as TNAP, proliferated on the surface of those cells in far greater numbers than on cells from […]