May 2026 Links

How to Land a Frontier Lab Job: Vlad offers a step-by-step tutorial on how to maximize your chances of getting into one of the main AI labs. Remember, step-by-step doesn’t necessarily mean easy!Democratic Republic of Congo: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa: Travel report of two Belgian tourists travel across the DRC and refuse to pay bribes. A few thoughts: I’m shocked they held up against such hostile people in a country where laws aren’t that enforced (in one direction). The amount of I-deserve-money people is sad, but not necessarily surprising (?) in that they will do almost anything to get money because of how poor they are. Thank goodness for my paved roads. DRC has a lot of people.Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you: I recently had to ban someone from a meetup, and this thought crossed my mind more than once leading up to the incident of the ban.Where the goblins came from: “a powerful example of how reward signals can shape model behavior in unexpected ways, and how models can learn to generalize rewards in certain situations to unrelated ones.” This reminds me of Golden Gate Claude.Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind: There’s definitely some bleakness on my end of feeling like I’m falling behind. I don’t really know how to effectively run Claude Code, my job role isn’t super receptive to agents, etc. Hotz hits the nail on the head with this (although I disagree with some of his AI sentiments):The trick is not to play zero sum games. This is what I have been saying the whole time. Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. If you create more value than you consume, you are welcome in any well operating community. Not infinite, not always needs more, just more than you consume. That’s enough, and avoid people or comparison traps that tell you otherwise. The world is not a Red Queen’s race.LEGO’s 0.002mm Specification and Its Implications for Manufacturing: Details on LEGO’s manufacturing tolerances and processes.Sh