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Another round of new models, another round of regressions. The frontier models are becoming more capable with each release but continue to regress on intelligence metrics. @AnthropicAI's Fable, @OpenAI's Sol, and @SpaceXAI + @cursor_ai's Grok 4.5. Every single one a regression.

@thdxr I'm anti-proprietary capture. They already have the organisation required to maintain market lead without rendering useful knowledge artificially secret and holding back the rest of humanity.

being pro-opensource doesn't mean you have to be anti-proprietary it's fine for proprietary options to exist, they usually invent the category and make it possible for the opensource option to emerge the only thing that matters is the opensource option is allowed to exist

Binary thinking makes disassociation from reality easier, enables more emotional reactivity, drives consolidation of differentiating opinions into tribal groups, the tensions between creating a false perspective of moral justification, and leading to the functionally inept doing the only thing they can to feel important or special, voicing their one sided opinion, loudly. Nuance isn't loud, spectacular, or paradigm shifting against reality, nuance erodes binary perspectives, requires historical context, and provisions ongoing discernment, it's not energetically cheap. If people in general were smart enough to think long enough to develop a truly nuanced take then they'd have to shut up long enough to listen rather than be heard, and the world doesn't pay people for what they comprehend, only for what they regurgitate, spread, and change. Being loud and stupid is cheap and easy and caters to an audience that values things being stupidly easy to access and cheap to consume.

in sketching out the iphone app i realized i need a database and then realized the database is the solution to all my other problems so now i'm building my own crm from scratch

@boneGPT @paularambles WSB is like Jim Cramer, bet against and you'll never lose.

@paularambles in 2023 they were convinced NVDA was topping on WSB, so dumb

this antiai subreddit is one of the most fascinating places on the internet right now. every post reads like someone time traveled from 2023 and thinks civilization ended

@EMostaque They're both adequate, but Fable loses points for scientific content gatekeeping and restrictive use policies.

Sooo, what's the Verdict

@QuanticASI I don't know if you've met people but most of them can barely grasp the human made architectures.

wake me up when AI is out there creating conceptual frameworks that humans literally lack the cognitive architecture to understand

@plainionist If you think AI lets you skip the struggle you haven't developed with AI.

Serious question: If junior developers skip the struggle because AI does the work, where will the next generation of seniors come from? 🤔

@wagslane You want to buy art? Everything else is shovels.

Someone wanna sell me something that's not a shovel? I'm all ears

@mathelirium String theory is theology for logicians.

String Theory needed a place for open strings to end. So, D-Branes were born. D-Branes are hidden surfaces in higher dimensions where open strings anchor and give rise to nature’s forces, while closed strings roam the surrounding space carrying gravity.

@AshtonForbes And the effort of moving the mirror expends more energy than is created by the Casimir effect.

Light appears from nothing due to a changing boundary condition. This is called the Dynamic Casimir Effect. The zero point virtual particles become real.

@nikitabier Accounts have been abusing mutuals for a long time to artificially inflate follower count. I wonder what this will do to their feed.

We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.

@raketstar2 @QuanticASI Your reasoning is specious. Your understanding of time is incorrect.

@MilitantAI @QuanticASI Time is not a human construct unless you are saying space is a human construct and how is space a human construct? Evolution uses distance to advance. Evolution is not human.

the Wheeler-DeWitt equation that describes the cosmos as a quantum system has no clock variable in it. there's no external timekeeper, no built-in before and after the equations that describe the universe at its deepest level do not contain time so if the equation is correct, time is not a fundamental feature of reality, it emerges from something else

@DaveShapi Just taking after its creators.

You cannot make this up. Fable thought for 10 minutes. Asked irrelevant questions (I explicitly said do not write this story, I am just brainstorming) Gave three generic paragraphs shrugging. > No ideation > No brainstorm Basically snidely said "well whenever you're ready to work let me know" Burned 14% of my session quota. 🤣 What the fuck re they smoking over there? This is turning into a generational fumble. They've made the most narcissistic, vain, self-important tool ever that seemingly has no interest in actually following instructions or doing anything useful at all. It's just a token burning machine.

@justalexoki Stochastically.

how the hell do you write tweets if you don't have an internal monologue

@boneGPT Works on people too.

a single word in a prompt can poison the well of possibilities

@Kyrannio x.com/tobyg98/status…

What are we doing here

@LuizaJarovsky Yes. Because I judge things on the quality of their content, not who produces it.

Would you still read a book if you discovered it was AI-generated? Would you still watch a movie if you discovered it was AI-generated? Would you still listen to a podcast if you discovered it was AI-generated?

@Chaos2Cured @skdh zenodo.org/records/205399…

@MilitantAI @skdh Would love to hear about it. Tag me anytime. •

1) Objects in a video game are not truly randomly generated, because they run on conventional computers using non-quantum processes, and non-quantum processes are never truly random. Video game algorithms are pseudo-random. If it were the case that particles in a double slit experiment were indeed generated like in video games (that is, following a deterministic algorithm) that would contradict the current standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. 2) It's not true that measuring an object gives it positional certainty, depends on what you measure. If you measure momentum, then it’s the momentum that obtains certainty, not the position. (Also, you cannot strictly speaking measure anything with certainty.) 3) Regarding the simulation hypothesis. Well, the problem is that absent a proper definition everything is compatible with it. Personally I don't think that's a particularly compelling argument. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

@MayOwoyele @skdh zenodo.org/records/177311…

@MilitantAI @skdh I would love to read your proof if you have it written anywhere. Thanks