Technomechanicus
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The genius of Norbert Wiener I finally found some time to read @TheUnjournaling's substack article on the possible origin of the term 'artificial intelligence'. It's a fascinating read. I recommend it to anyone who might be interested in the history of AI. See link in reply. Something near the end of Manion's article shocked me to the core. I'm now fairly convinced that John McCarthy's hostility toward Norbert Wiener may have changed the evolution and history of AI research for the worse. In 1955, Wiener delivered a lecture (“Time and Organization”) at Southampton university in England. As someone who often claims that timing is the most important principle of intelligence and that the brain is a massive timing mechanism, I was astounded. Wiener wrote: “It is quite conceivable, although not yet proved, that the regularity of the human clock will be associated with intelligence, and with the ability of the intelligent man to carry out relatively long-time coordinated mental activity. Of course this does not mean that the clock itself is a measure of this intelligence; but at any rate it gives us a strong suggestion that the regularity of this clock may be necessary if not a sufficient condition for highly organized mental activity.” I almost fell off my chair. Norbert Wiener was a true genius. While everyone else at the time was fixated on symbols, logic and language, he instinctively understood that the important thing was time. O, McCarthy. What have you done? You derailed the true calling of AI research. Seventy years of boomer AI and its crowning achievement is what? Word auto-complete algorithms pretending to be intelligent? Fake AI? I'm not amused. Dear Lord. I weep. 🤦♂️ PS. Thanks for the well-written article, Sean. Excellent research. 🙏
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When asked point blank whether American families getting crushed by gas prices, groceries, and inflation even registers in his Iran policy, he didn’t flinch: “That’s right, that’s a perfect statement. I’d make it again.” Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters is stopping Iran from getting a nuke (a complete farce as the real nuke issue is in Israel not a signatory to the NPT). Everything else... your bills, your paycheck, the pain at the pump and rising inflation is just background noise. This is the same man who could have told Netanyahu no when the war drums started beating. He didn’t. He went along, owns every barrel of oil that spiked, every supply chain that snapped, and every family now choosing between rent and the grocery bill. Biden was a disaster, sure but this is Trump’s choice, delivered with billionaire detachment while the rest of the country pays the tab. “Short term pain,” he calls it. Easy to say when you’re not the one feeling it. This is the empire’s oldest trick: sacrifice the centre (the homeland) for forever wars on someone else’s map. Geography, economics, and the history don’t care about detached salesmanship. They care about who actually foots the bill. And right now, that bill is landing squarely on Main Street. Natural consequences don’t negotiate with billionaires or foreign lobbies. They just keep coming on their predictable schedule.
For the first time in years, particle physics has a new anomaly, or rather, the return of a previous one that just won't go away. What could it be? I have a brief summary
ニニオ型の消失錯視（格子を45度傾けた図） 同時に16個の黒いドットを知覚することができない。
WSJ: Anthropic’s Mythos helped researchers find 2 unknown macOS kernel bugs and turn them into a working privilege escalation exploit in 5 days. The target was the macOS kernel, the deepest layer of Apple’s desktop operating system, where code controls memory, processes, permissions, and access to hardware. Mythos helped connect 2 separate flaws with extra exploitation techniques, which means the attack did not rely on one bug but on a chain where each step made the next step possible. The exploit allegedly corrupted memory, bypassed Apple’s memory integrity protections, and gained access to protected parts of the system that normal apps should never reach. This is serious because modern macOS defenses are built to make memory bugs hard to convert into control of the machine, not just hard to find. Mythos can become so powerful here because vulnerability research is a search problem with many dead ends, where the model can help form hypotheses, inspect code behavior, reason across low-level constraints, and suggest exploit paths faster than manual work alone. --- wsj .com/tech/ai/anthropic-mythos-apple-macos-bug-339da403
@DA_Stockman Only a moron would bargain with a regime that has 60% Uranium, has funded terror attacks around the world, killed over 1,000 Americans and chants death to America.
