@jerryjarhead1 @AP Gun debate ended in America after sandy hook no need to get your panties wet boy
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Darla Skye
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@AP You should have included this in your headline. A civilian (armed with a pistol) returned fire, which appears to have helped stop the threat.
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BREAKING: Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. apnews.com/article/shooti…
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@ffccrypto @alz_zyd_ Nerds are more sociopathic than the average sociopath
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@qualiascript This is an extraordinary complaint. “Please slow down your discoveries because they’re arriving faster than I can digest them” is not a criticism of the science, it’s a compliment to the pace of progress.
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i don't really like the way this announcement was rolled out at all
by announcing 10 problems solved at once, this in effect has the role of a mathematical DDoS
it affect mathematicians' ability to sit down with each problem and comprehend the new findings on their own terms
Noam Brown@polynoamial
An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning. openai.com/index/ten-adva…
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AlphaFold taught us to read the language of proteins. This class of models is teaching us to write it. The obvious endpoint isn’t just better medicines, it’s designing proteins on demand for manufacturing, agriculture, environmental cleanup, and synthetic cells. The bottleneck shifts from discovering molecules to specifying what you want them to do.
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A artificial-intelligence tool dubbed Raygun can miniaturize or supersize a natural protein without disrupting the protein’s shape or ability to function
go.nature.com/4fwhHnT
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This paper does not demonstrate that microtubules generate consciousness. It is a theoretical review arguing that the neuronal cytoskeleton may contribute to cognition. That is a much weaker claim. Finding oscillations across many frequencies in microtubules is unsurprising for complex biomolecules and does not establish long-lived quantum coherence, entanglement, objective reduction, or any causal relation to subjective experience.
Calling these dynamics “time crystals” also risks abusing a technical term. In physics, a time crystal is not merely something that oscillates. It requires a very specific kind of robust time-translation symmetry breaking. A spectral peak in a biological structure does not automatically qualify.
More importantly, “microtubules are important to neurons” does not imply “microtubules mediate consciousness.” Microtubules are essential for transport, cell structure, synaptic maintenance, and signaling, so disrupting them will obviously affect the brain through ordinary classical mechanisms. To support Orch-OR, one would need to identify a specifically quantum microtubular variable, show that it tracks conscious state independently of conventional neural activity, and then selectively manipulate it while preserving the classical functions. This paper does none of that.
And Dennett’s argument was not that neurons are simplistic cartoons. It was that adding a hidden inner observer does no explanatory work. Replacing the Cartesian ghost with “ghost-like quantum effects” does not answer that objection. It just moves the mystery from the whole brain into the cytoskeleton.
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No Dennett didn’t prove that at all. Gilbert Ryle’s ‘Ghost in the machine’ refers to consciousness apart from the brain, but the brain is taken as a set of cartoon neurons by AI proponents and neurocomputationalists. However neurons and glia are filled with polyatomic microtubule time crystals with kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz and ‘ghost-like’ but real quantum effects mediating consciousness. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35782391/
I argued with Dan about this on several occasions and he just kept insisting
‘You don’t need microtubules!’.
So what he was saying is ‘you don’t need microtubules to not have consciousness’. I suppose that part was true.
rodeojuly@rodeojuly
a cognitive scientist proved that the "ghost in the machine" is a complete illusion, destroying how we think about AI consciousness Daniel Dennett explains his famous "Cartesian Theater" fallacy, showing why there is no central headquarters in the brain where consciousness magically happens. he demonstrates how the brain processes multiple drafts of reality simultaneously. if you flash a light at the exact right millisecond, your brain edits the timeline before you even perceive it. the "center" doesn't exist. today, people look at massive LLMs and assume there is a singular "mind" behind the weights. a central agent making decisions and feeling emotions. there is no central observer. it's just multiple drafts of statistical probability running in parallel. we aren't building a conscious entity. we are just hallucinating the theater.
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The case that helped cement Comey’s reputation was sending Martha Stewart to prison; not for insider trading, but for lying during an investigation into a trade worth about $45,000. It’s remarkable to now watch him emphasize the importance of context, restraint, and due process after building his career on one of the most aggressive white-collar prosecutions in modern memory.
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James Comey’s lawyers have presented new documentation in his defense—including testimony from a former underboss for the Gambino crime family.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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@bobasfk Demanding frontier technology justify itself to the average consumer is like criticizing the Large Hadron Collider because it doesn’t make toast. The highest purpose of intelligence is expanding the frontier of knowledge, not optimizing suburban convenience.
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the shit they are cooking up in their broken brains to find a use case for normies is insane
This industry has nothing to offer to normies and they've spent a bajillion dollars on the promise one would appear by now
The untangling of the AI leveraged bubble will be multiple times bigger than 2008
Sam Altman@sama
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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@yacineMTB If intelligence changes nothing, then knowledge was never the driver of progress. History suggests the opposite.
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@GaryMarcus Hilarious Gary has to use the nonsense term ‘pure LLM’ for the rest of his life
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exactly. math isn’t done. not at all.
Eric Weinstein@ericweinstein
I don’t think being critical of the amazing work AI is doing in pure math is fair to @OpenAI until I can start to say why I feel it’s not yet at the level of our top humans. It’s like AI has a style that is weirdly being taken to be universal (which it isnt). Hence the claim that Mathematians and Physicists are nearly obsolete. Ahem: there is no *public* indication that this is REMOTELY true. Yet. I would like to pose a collection of math physics benchmarks that are not about searching large spaces for counter examples and the like. These are 10 problems and issues that humans haven’t solved but which we likely will solve. Each feels to me like a deeply human math/physics problem. This isn’t an unfriendly challenge to @sama and team. It’s just pointing out that AI has yet to deeply touch any of the kind of things that many of us care MOST about in Mathematics and Physics. I’m just not a puzzle solver or a discrete conjecture guy. I’m into theory building and even the mathematical version of mysticism. Here goes an attempt: ————- A) What new Extraordinary Cohomology Theories/Co-cycles can AI find that we need, but do not know/understand? B) What areas of pure mathematics and theoretical physics are most polluted by human blind spots? Where is the training corpus most wrong? Show us you can go well beyond us by contradicting your training. C) What discarded ideas were discarded improperly and prematurely? D) What is a natural version of Grand Unification that doesn’t contradict experiment? E) Find a natural version of Super-Symmetry that doesn’t predict Superpartners and that predicts unification scale different from the Minimally SuperSymmetric Extension or the Standard Model. F) Pose a new, deep and surprising conjecture relating 3 or more of the following: representation theory, number theory, arithmetic/algebraic geometry, and analysis on manifolds, homotopy theory and Pseudo-Riemannian Spin Geometry. G) Integrate the Octonions, Magic Square and the 4 large exceptional lie groups, tightly into the mainstream of mathematics once and for all. H) Settle the issue of the 6 sphere and complex structures in Math or the Koide fine tuning mystery in particle theory. I) Explain the reason for there being 3 families of observed Fermions. J) Give a deep, natural and as yet unknown reason for the remarkable Fermi-Bose correspondence (e.g. Metaplectic vs Spin reps, Honest vs Berezin Integrals, etc.). Why should we have expected this correspondence to be this weird and this tight? ——— I don’t think humans are going to be ahead forever. AI will blow past us. So while I am not all that impressed yet at the math or physics, any non-tricky solutions to one of the above (with the possible exception of some answers to H) would feel different to me than the feeling I get from AI finding yet another funky counter examples to some Erdos problem, discrete puzzle or Combinatorial issue in Graph theory. We have always been humbled by Gauss, Galois, Dirac and Newton. That’s nothing new. If this is going to put us out of work soon, LFG. May the best mathematicians and physicists, carbon or silicon, win.
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Rep. Eric Burlison@RepEricBurlison
Today, I'm releasing preliminary implementation guidance shared by the Trump administration regarding President Trump's UAP NDA directive. If you have questions about the directive, or believe it may apply to you, I encourage you to contact my office or another Member of Congress if you need assistance navigating the process. Full release and memorandum: burlison.house.gov/media/press-re…
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Nate has spent the last couple of years repeatedly underestimating the pace of capability gains. Now that AI is producing publishable mathematics, the takeaway is… it should do more party tricks for normies? Maybe reality is telling us something about where intelligence scales first
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The AI math proofs are impressive. But also probably among the hardest things for normies to appreciate. Personally, I think the AI labs underweight the value of putting bandwidth into achieving results that impress normies as opposed to evals/people within the peer group.
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Smart is not sentient. We need to get this one right. My latest article on my Substack: beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/smart-is-not…
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@stephenasmith After 1.2 million deaths, the hunt isn’t for truth, it’s for someone else to blame.
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"A million Americans died. The American people deserve answers."
Senator Rand Paul joins me after Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth 111 times before Congress. We cover the hearing, gain-of-function research, COVID's origins, accountability, and what happens next.
Premiering tonight at 5 pm ET on YouTube
Link in the comments.
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@robinhanson 1.2 million graves, and they’re still searching for a scapegoat instead of a mirror
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"I won't answer as it my incriminate me re a crime" How is that not evidence suggesting you've committed a crime?
reuters.com/business/healt…
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@robinhanson A culture that elevates a man whose name echoes through the Epstein files tens of thousands of times may be one of the darkest indictments of a civilization ever written
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Many may come to see culturalists as being just as bad as most see racists today. After all, maybe what most didn't like previously about other races was their culture, not their DNA.
John Cleese@JohnCleese
I'm not a racist. I'm a culturalist I believe some cultures are superior to others For example, I prefer cultures that do not encourage wife beating, paedophilia, clitorectomies, stoning and constant inflation of the male ego I am also aware of the difference between Islamoscepticism and Islamophobia Notice that hate does not come into this Only moral preferences
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@GaryMarcus @farquaadguy Gary is the kind of guy who criticizes the men in the arena, contributes nothing himself, and when one prediction pans out, celebrates like he changed the course of history and deserves the Nobel Prize
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@farquaadguy like when i predicted the fall that undid Leopold?
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the cope and intellectual dishonesty and confirmation bias here today is really something.
we have a trifecta of people leaping to conclusions without having seen any evidence (eg of generality to nonformal
problems), people misrepresenting my positions (that I have explained clearly and in depth many times), and people shifting goalposts while accusing others of doing so (without evidence).
people are positively desperate to believe that Astra is ASI.
and completely unwilling to await evidence or even their own experience.
it’s actually kind of sad.
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@GaryMarcus Gary is jealous daily he never became a significant player in AI, probably cries himself to sleep nightly
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@gerardtbaker Anne bent you over and fucked your bald head with her reply
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Come again? If 100 people break into your house and 99 of them leave the next day, do those who call this an intolerable outrage and breach of your rights need to apologize for saying so?
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum
I wonder if the people who rushed to make propaganda slogans out of this incident will apologize
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This is the same guy who spent the last two years arguing that current AI had hit fundamental walls, that LLMs couldn’t really reason, that scaling was running out of steam, and that today’s architectures had “unfixable problems.” Meanwhile we’ve watched frontier models go from struggling with undergraduate math to contributing to original research, solving IMO-level problems, writing production software, and being adopted by scientists like Terence Tao, Eric Topol, and many others as genuine research partners. If AI made me look like a fucking moron like it has you I would also still be hoping it would fail
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I'm not anti-AI.
I'm just not arrogant or naive enough to think that human-made statistical engines can solve every problem in this universe.
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