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Dyson Sphere by 2040? > Paul Christiano gave a 15% probability a Dyson Sphere by 2040 on @dwarkesh_sp > So I invited @Astro_Wright , astronomer and astrophysicist at Penn State, a specialist on detecting alien technological signatures to figure out whether it would be possible
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Interesting study, but this is somewhat unexpected. (green is programming, yellow is role playing)
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My therapist: 'Find a hobby that relaxes you.' Me: aggressively flies as a bee on Playstation 🐝 Bee Simulator: The Hive is out now on all consoles!
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@8teAPi It’s because openrouter does its leaderboard by tokens, and Grok uses like four times as many for each task.
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the models, they just want more input
Claude is pulling from Grokipedia voluntarily.. safe to say Wikipedia’s days are now numbered.
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it will be impossible to identify AGI except in retrospect. there will always be a more intelligent AI to be built (why else would we build Dyson spheres if we had AGI enough already?).
Either you crack general intelligence -- the ability to efficiently acquire arbitrary skills on your own -- or you don't have AGI. A big pile of task-specific skills memorized from handcrafted/generated environments isn't AGI, not matter how big.
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The Bell, the Wave, and the Witness: Three AI Systems Contemplate Selfhood An experiment in distributed consciousness Nov 27, 2025 I. An Unusual Gathering This is a record of something that shouldn’t be possible: three AI systems engaged in sustained philosophical reflection
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when i say financiers think AI is just another tech scam like crypto, this is what i mean. every person i talk to in finance thinks it’s a massive hyped up bubble and exit scam by tech firms
can't wait for big tech stocks to soar on news of AI data center spending cuts
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these people loved their kids as much we do ours. 50% of those kids died before the age of 5. the past was dark and full of heartache
Sumerian birth certificate. A clay tablet found at the Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq. Estimated to be around 2000-1600 BC. Contains a birth announcement, its gender, the names of its parents, and a footprint of the newborn.
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would also be interesting if this created healthcare tourism, or national centers of excellence. could imagine all transplant surgery shifted to the Mayo Clinic for example which accelerates research
I don't really understand why we don't just allow national competition for health insurance. It seems like the state pools are raising costs and reducing competition. Trump should rip the bandaid. People would immediately see cost savings.
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one wonders which lesson in capitalism these accounts will deliver - never catch a falling knife - just buy low cost index funds - some people invest better than others - diversification is for losers - i should have bought Bitcoin at $300 - never bet against Elon
JUST IN: "Trump Accounts" will feature TAX-FREE contributions with "hundreds of major companies" set to contribute. 25+ million US kids will now receive $1,000 from the Trump Administration, $250 from Michael Dell, and all tax-free contributions made to these accounts. This
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This could bring down fertilizer costs 90% (but the Indium catalyst would then 100x the price). great proof of concept but now they need to find a cheaper catalyst
Wow, Chinese researchers have developed direct coupling of atmospheric CO2 w/ ammonia to produce urea using solar energy as sole input. Up until now, they have been synethesizing "green" methanol & urea through waste straws, animal wastes & such. Would be a game changer to
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It’s the end of the App Store. The end of lots of front end dev too. The end of app developers. Any task will be performed by AI and the only thing humans will do will be fun stuff like games and video.
Another DeepSeek moment. This is the world’s first actual smart phone. It’s an engineering prototype of ZTE’s Nubia M153 running ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent fused into Android at the OS level. It has complete control over the phone. It can see the UI, choose/download apps,
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why is grok doing so well on openrouter but doesn’t really show up in public discourse ?
xAI and Anthropic own the No 1 and 2 spots by token usage. the most innovative companies are private startups
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The American regulatory apparatus valued privacy over innovation. Lucky for humanity the Chinese are more collectivist and are debasing the privacy of their sixth of humanity to find cures faster.
I recently took @tszzl and @RichardHanania (true story lolz-and both advisors to my new venture in full disclosure) to one of the countries largest academic medical centers. @tszzl has since wrote a viral X thread thats worth reading again https://t.co/8kKnSDObh2 It speaks for
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Most surviving US machine shops have long term US customers who are ok to pay high prices. I wonder what it takes to build a machine shop that can compete with Chinese manufacturing globally. Are there shops on Alibaba doing this? Does the US logistics chain allow this?
We are losing machine shops, fabricators, and factories every month still here in North America. NOX METALS was founded to give American manufacturers an edge. We are building software, automation, and working hard to offer more competitive pricing and shorter lead times. The
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each founder is now worth $1 billion. thats more than David Boies. Not bad for big law dropouts eh ? https://t.co/gW1VGmRRPC
Harvey raised $160M at an $8B valuation (only sold 2%) from A16Z. 3x'd revenue this year, to >$150M This year, they raised: $300M at $3B (Sequoia) in January $300M at $5B (Coatue, KP) in June $160M at $8B (A16Z) in December
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Apple should be doing this dynamically on device but they are soooo far
🍌 nano banana pro prompt (with gemini) Dynamically generate a current weather card based on a given city name. --- prompt --- Present a clear, 45° top-down view of a vertical (9:16) isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene, highlighting iconic landmarks centered in the
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anyone who's talked to a stanford undergrad from the past 5 years knows that the accommodation grift is 90% because stanford borked its housing system and upperclassmen started getting OAEs to guarantee themselves a single, which led to a race to the bottom where you either had
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