Robin Hanson's long-running blog on why we believe and do what we do, and what our descendants might do — free to read.
In plain terms: This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die. Click to read Overcoming Bias, by Robin Hanson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Why I recommend it: Deliberately contrarian. Useful for pressure-testing your own assumptions.
Jeff Sebo (September 17, 2026) on whether AI systems could matter morally: consciousness, sentience and agency are three distinct ways something can count — and in AI, unlike in animals, they may not come as a package.
A crowd-submitted directory of examples where AI tools are reported to have helped people, such as ElevenLabs voices for people with speech loss, Brainomix stroke scans, and John Deere See and Spray herbicide reduction. Visitors can browse top and new entries and submit their own.
Explains that Google Antigravity now lists Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 for non-trial Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and that Claude 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b are removed on November 2, with who is affected and what to do.
Aleph Alpha's open-weights reasoning model on Hugging Face, released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is a mixture-of-experts text-generation model tagged for German and English, with an FP8 build that runs on vLLM.