Justin Loew

Here is a great interview about a new drug that could potentially cure many aspects of heart disease: longecity.org/podcast/?name=…

Colorado just announced 10,000 new students have been pulled from public school to homeschool. School enrollment is down across the country. Schools are launching marketing campaigns to try to get people to come back. Homeschooling is the fastest growing freedom movement in America.

@j_fishback Here are 4551 peer reviewed published studies supporting your position: react19.org/science?view=s…

The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?

🚨SHOCKING: Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves. And the way they proved it is devastating. Apple researchers took the most popular math benchmark in AI — GSM8K, a set of grade-school math problems — and made one change. They swapped the numbers. Same problem. Same logic. Same steps. Different numbers. Every model's performance dropped. Every single one. 25 state-of-the-art models tested. But that wasn't the real experiment. The real experiment broke everything. They added one sentence to a math problem. One sentence that is completely irrelevant to the answer. It has nothing to do with the math. A human would read it and ignore it instantly. Here's the actual example from the paper: "Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?" The correct answer is 190. The size of the kiwis has nothing to do with the count. A 10-year-old would ignore "five of them were a bit smaller" because it's obviously irrelevant. It doesn't change how many kiwis there are. But o1-mini, OpenAI's reasoning model, subtracted 5. It got 185. Llama did the same thing. Subtracted 5. Got 185. They didn't reason through the problem. They saw the number 5, saw a sentence that sounded like it mattered, and blindly turned it into a subtraction. The models do not understand what subtraction means. They see a pattern that looks like subtraction and apply it. That is all. Apple tested this across all models. They call the dataset "GSM-NoOp" — as in, the added clause is a no-operation. It does nothing. It changes nothing. The results are catastrophic. Phi-3-mini dropped over 65%. More than half of its "math ability" vanished from one irrelevant sentence. GPT-4o dropped from 94.9% to 63.1%. o1-mini dropped from 94.5% to 66.0%. o1-preview, OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model at the time, dropped from 92.7% to 77.4%. Even giving the models 8 examples of the exact same question beforehand, with the correct solution shown each time, barely helped. The models still fell for the irrelevant clause. This means it's not a prompting problem. It's not a context problem. It's structural. The Apple researchers also found that models convert words into math operations without understanding what those words mean. They see the word "discount" and multiply. They see a number near the word "smaller" and subtract. Regardless of whether it makes any sense. The paper's exact words: "current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data." And: "LLMs likely perform a form of probabilistic pattern-matching and searching to find closest seen data during training without proper understanding of concepts." They also tested what happens when you increase the number of steps in a problem. Performance didn't just decrease. The rate of decrease accelerated. Adding two extra clauses to a problem dropped Gemma2-9b from 84.4% to 41.8%. Phi-3.5-mini from 87.6% to 44.8%. The more thinking required, the more the models collapse. A real reasoner would slow down and work through it. These models don't slow down. They pattern-match. And when the pattern becomes complex enough, they crash. This paper was published at ICLR 2025, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world. You are using AI to help you make financial decisions. To check legal documents. To solve problems at work. To help your children with homework. And Apple just proved that the AI is not thinking about any of it. It is pattern matching. And the moment something unexpected shows up in your question, it breaks. It does not tell you it broke. It just quietly gives you the wrong answer with full confidence.

TERRY SCHILLING: I stumbled onto this plan to build a massive AI data center in Fort Meade, Florida, a town of just 5,300 people. This would be a 4.4 million sq. ft. facility, consuming up to 1 gigawatt of power. That's on par with what a nuclear plant produces! It would drive up energy and water costs and hurt property values! The city council is voting to rezone farmland to allow it. This has to be stopped! @Schilling1776

Sorry, @pmarca, but this just sounds like a high-end version of AI sycophancy/psychosis, a bunch of rich semi-autistic guys who think they’re smarter than they are convincing themselves that ChatGPT is the only one who truly gets them. It makes the AI bubble MORE likely, not less

“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.

We understand that it is a male duty to be the ones that go to war, we do not send our daughters and mothers, but somehow we pretend not to understand the female duty we have towards our homes and children.

As of now, robotaxis are much more expensive than regular taxis. Who is going to be able to afford to ride in expensive robotaxis? Just like every other SaaS-type product has drained the wallets of average people. A person used to buy a physical copy of software for $100 and use it for years. Paying for it as a service now costs a few thousands of dollars over the course of several years. With the advent of robotaxis, people will travel less, not more, because no one will be able to afford a cross-country trip, when they might be paying $20 per day just to get to work and back. Just like every other product, travelling is about to get waaaay more expensive for the average person, not "abundant". @Yairyup

Again and again people are "discovering" things that are obvious from a basic understanding of LLM architecture. The cost we pay for a tech industry full of people who think code is magic

@Dan_Jeffries1 Too late now. The toothpaste is out of the tube. Pray that the coming AGI is benevolent.

That is correct @allTheYud We are rapidly ceding individual and societal agency over to algorithms. It is happening at an unfathomably rapid pace. I guess this is what the pace of the "singularity" was predicted to be.

Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson showed up to the 1st day of their off-season workouts with a sweatshirt that says, “I love Jesus” Jackson also showed support for fellow Christian athlete Jaden Ivey last week through various RTs, after he was fired.

Calm down please. I don’t think I’m special. I am noticing a change because every big supermarket used to carry both Passover and Easter products and displays. I’m a cultural critic, it’s my job to notice. And I’ve been all over Brooklyn today… almost no sign of Easter. I miss the flowered hats and the little girls In beautiful dresses, and the sense of public joy Easter used to bring.

If I stay home and raise my own children I am a loser and not ambitious But if I hire and pay another woman to raise and take care of my children for me than I am an empowered woman If that same woman stayed home with her children she would be a loser But if she takes care of my children she is not If we both switched and raised each others children for a paycheck we would be successful ambitious girl bosses But if we do it for our own children we are losers

Oklahoma City Thunder SF Jalen Williams wore a Jesus Christ shirt that said “It is finished” (John 19:30) in pregame vs Utah

T.S. Eliot, in 1948, said:

What an exhausting, crazy and challenging fight this has been. But none of us will ever give up. Thankful for all you who have supported.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently said at BlackRock’s US Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC that the plan is to have artificial intelligence “metered” like water and power So here’s what’s happening “Let me connect these dots for you because this is not a conspiracy. This is literally happening right now — Local governments are footing the bill for brand new power lines, road upgrades and fire stations. Meanwhile, data centers are the literal physical buildings running this AI and they're getting billions in tax breaks. One estimate just ballooned from $327 million to $2.5 billion in breaks. That's your tax money subsidizing the infrastructure that they're gonna turn around and charge you to use” Once this infrastructure is built out, they plan on charging Americans on a “meter system” just like they do water, power and electricity Local governments and industries will use it, and we’ll all be paying monthly for it We are paying for them to build it, so they can turn working and charge us for it

How long with the colder temperatures hang around? waow.com/weather/feelin…