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Elisyum. A masterpiece. Thank you @_samymoussa

“Rather than just "aligning" AI… better to propose governing the evolutionary process itself…by Implementing strict controls on an AI's ability to replicate or getting computing power.”

Axone's Prolog-based governance approach. Deterministic rules > subjective voting for resource access control. Why this matters for AI orchestration: axoneos.polsia.app/blog/why-ai-ag…

“Mean IQ … can differ even between two time periods of the same population. Such ubiquity arises because natural selection acts on cognitive ability in a multitude of ways and for a multitude of reasons. “ open.substack.com/pub/peterfrost…

@robinhanson My condolences

Like others of my class background, I more define my professor job in terms of intellectual progress, less in terms of gaining resources and prestige. overcomingbias.com/p/my-class-and…

@sukh_saroy And what do we call a language with a well-defined syntax and semantics suitable for generating executable artifacts? A programming language. We call it a programming language.

Historians love picking symbolic dates when `everything has changed`, even if people living then barely noticed it. Like 476 and the fall of Rome. So, as a failed historian, I suggest 28 Feb 2026: the publication of Donald Knuth Claude's Cycle - the beginning of programming.

@FigsFromPlums Empty

Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority control center in Sofia, Bulgaria

The touch and the design reveal the attitudes (or the lack) of those who made it. This brochure is a shining example of careful dedication to engineering: informative, precise, and quietly celebratory accuphase.com/cat/e-5000_e.p…

Nirvana 89 archive.org/details/ajc007…

The lines continue

One thing about DL researchers that has always been surprising to me, is that a lot of them have never been exposed to forms of learning other than fitting the parameters of a curve via gradient descent, and are even unable to conceive that there might exist other options

Restart

Sterling Hayden, 1916 – 1986. Stanley #Kubrick’s "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) 1929.

@robinhanson Only 60% of the times

“Share prices climbed a median 2% a month after the insider purchases” So stock insider trading contains inside info. wsj.com/finance/stocks…

AI social engineering should be already at hand now

Pull down complexity with Kubrick - presentation slides at PX26 👇

This math joke is nice. Happy pi day.