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If there is one railway in the United States of America that currently qualifies as a high speed rail line, then that would be the Northeast Corridor (abbreviated NEC) that connects Boston - New York City - Philadelphia - Baltimore - Washington D.C.. These cities alone have a population of 12 million people, but if...
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The American conversation about high-speed rail has an internal debate that greatly bothers me, about whether investments should be incremental or not. An interview with the author of a new book about the Northeast Corridor reminded me of this; this is not the focus of the interview, but there was an invocation of incremental vs....
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[AI summary] The article outlines five proposed infrastructure projects to improve Australia's connectivity and sustainability. These include a tunnel connecting Victoria and Tasmania, a railway from Mt Isa to Tennant Creek, a highway to Cape York, high-speed rail on the Eastern seaboard, and self-sustaining desert towns. Each project addresses current gaps in transportation and aims to enhance economic and social connectivity across the country.
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In a recent tweet, Anthropic seems to have asserted that hyperstitionis responsible for observed misalignment in their AIs. Strangely, the research post they use as evidence appears to be only vaguely related to hyperstition[1]? I think this is part of a pattern by Anthropic of promoting the theory of hyperstition- the idea that writing about misaligned AI helps bring misaligned AI into existence- without explicitly calling it that. However, the research post shared with this tweet doesn't seem to be about writing misaligned AI into existence. Instead they find that training the model on reasoning traces- generated by reflecting on its constitution while giving users ethical advice on difficult dilemmas- reduces misaligned behavior. This presumably works by ...
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