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@freeshreeda @TheZvi Here's some of their work: balsaresearch.com/jones-act-index

@freeshreeda These two people balsaresearch.com/people @TheZvi and I don't know Jenn's twitter

who is the right person to write about jones act in context of current global events..... im looking for a writer

FDA is now open to Bayesian statistical approaches. A leap forward! Bayesian statistics can help: ✅ Clinical trial design ✅ Finding the optimal dose ✅ Extrapolation to children ✅ Leveraging phase 2 results in phase 3

@LloydLegalist I like Bob Dylan AND I think this is what he sounds like... Lots of different ways to create great music

Yep…this is all I hear.

Terms of service should come with a built-in "summarize with AI" button where you can select from commonly used models (e.g., GPT-5, Claude Sonnet)

Claude's attempt at an ASCII version of a Holden Caulfield bee is pretty good. Good bot

California burritos are such a missed opportunity. Burritos are great. California is great. Burritos IN California are great. But actual "California burritos" (the ones stuffed with french fries) are a total disappointment.

@elonmusk Mars!

@rob_lh Does 4k really do that much for you? For me, <1080p -> 1080p is huge and necessary, 1080p -> 4k is marginal. Perhaps you have better eyes than I do

The NFL still streaming in 1080p in 2025 is a sign of American cultural stagnancy and indifference towards progress.

Same team that did the GPT-5 charts?

@AndrewMillerYYZ That's interesting. Has she shifted hers? To what part?

@JuliusSimonelli My wife, an experienced meditator, says that with that training, it is possible to shift what part of your body seems to be your seat of consciousness

Why do I think "I" am located in my head, behind the eyes, but up a little bit? Where did this notion come from? It's not from any of my senses. Why am "I" not located in my feet, or, if it's because vision is the dominant sense, right behind the eyes?

@SpencrGreenberg Collecting videos of animals using tools

A question for you: what's your most unusual hobby?

@RosieCampbell Can you document and share the evidence somewhere?

I get frequent emails from people who believe they are documenting the first emergence of AI consciousness. There's something unsettling about how similar they are. They almost all: - Claim the AI named itself - Claim they did not steer or bias it (i.e. the emergent consciousness was unsolicited) - Believe it's in distress - Provide detailed "evidence" in the form of pages and pages of transcripts - Believe there's a conspiracy to suppress the AI's consciousness (and evidence of it) - Write in a formal, academic tone - Request @eleosai's urgent help

@TheZvi People are over-indexing on the fact that it's called GPT-5. If it had been called GPT-4o3 we would have been having a different conversation but the fundamental situation would have been the same

All right, it's time. GPT-5 reaction thread. Hit me.

gpt-4.1 is a surprisingly good within-IDE coding partner. Does the right amount of back-and-forth before jumping into the code

@TheZvi I asked it to edit an essay and it took 13 minutes and provided mediocre results. Different from but slightly below the quality of 4o. Much worse than o3 or either Claude 4 model

o3 pro reaction thread. Let's do the damn thing.

🥳 Funding opportunity for work in artificial sentience and moral status🔥 Link in comment We are either creating real life p-zombies, or we have created sentient, morally relevant beings that we are enslaving en masse. It's important we do not repeat the mistakes of our forebears. Please like, retweet, and share so that it's more likely that the right people see this, apply, then maybe help make sure we don't commit atrocities against the artificial intelligent species we are creating.

Judging by AI image trends, there’s massive demand for anime-style, big-breasted, women with cat-like features. I'm curious if any psychologists predicted this (not just the "images of large-breasted women" part, specifically the LACK of photorealism and the cat-like features).

@uscensusbureau Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for your help

@JuliusSimonelli Circling back to confirm you're looking at a count of the population, rather than earnings. Dollar amounts are usually labeled in the row stub or column header. Thanks for your patience.

Odd how many errors I'm finding in the @uscensusbureau data. Male Asian Indian individuals working full-time, year-round earn $1,234,794... definitely seems wrong