ɪ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʀɪsᴇ. I've always said that I'll get a tattoo when I hear, or see, or think of something that I am compelled to have etched into my skin forever. I don't know if this quite does it, but I think it's the closest thing so far.

My trainees learn this literally Week 1 in the lab. Amateur hour!

This video is one of the first times I thought biology was “cool.” It shows a neutrophil cell chasing a bacterium. Originally recorded in the 1950s by David Rogers at Vanderbilt University, the video gave me a deeper appreciation for life, even at the level of a single cell,

Related: can't wait to die in a nuclear holocaust because some 4chan troll with 5 grand to burn triggered a "preemptive" strike by spoofing his IP to Vladivostok and placing a bunch of insider-looking bets on Russia nuking the US.

Dude had the chance to change the course of history. Tip off the press, tip off the Venezuelans—hell, tip off the PRC, give 'em the chance to threaten retaliation as a deterrent, Cuban Missile Crisis-style. Idc what your politics are, what you hope to see as the outcome; if

Out now. You know where to find it

Excited to announce my new hedge fund, the Strategic Transformer Reserve, now taking investment. Guaranteed to pay out eventually. Maybe not within our lifetimes, but the returns?? Name your price!

When it comes to scientific discovery, one thing LLMs are really good at is getting hobbyists to delude themselves into believing they've made a huge breakthrough on some longstanding problem or a theory of everything

All of chemistry is like "The Gerbenheimer-Hooch addition is an instance of the more general class of Clung Reactions (involving the transfer of an acyliminium group to a nucleophilic zwitterion), specifically those cases where the electron donor is a Goebbels acid."

.@acquire_capital was there! I have witnesses!

A Hannukah story. One that I think of every year, and which is 100% true in spite of sounding like it was made up for a sermon or a chain email. A few years ago, I took my family's menorah over to my neighbor's house to light the candles, to share with my friends the one or two

New piece dropping tomorrow. On Artificial Intelligence, Plato's Cave, Language, and God. Also, as usual, poop science.

What @Nature offers you for $11,000… 🤡 #NatureRipoffs

Had the opportunity today to repost one of my old bangers from the Physics Buzz days. I was pretty good at 25! https://t.co/YXgd9GpS21

I was roasting an AI weenie with this one but the polyamory rats really seem to believe this lol

"Just look at it!" is throwing yourself directly into the trap set by its appearance, making intuitive guesses about overall complexity based on superficial complexity. This is a trap because your intuition was trained for a hundred million years on natural forms, where a bulging

You can see the tendons in his hands, the veins standing out under the taut skin of his arm, the fear in his eyes as he stares at the approaching Goliath. Oh wait, no you can't! Because all that subsurface structure is just a masterfully executed illusion

Okay but the difference is that an LLM's core design constraint is to resemble a human as closely as possible in exactly one way—text generation—despite the total absence of the interior that makes the surface possible on an organic being. Take Michaelangelo's David:

Bay Area atheists: "God is dead!" Alright sure, but then who's this guy that's just pulled up wearing a cardboard box on his head going "beep boop, superintelligent AI here, follow me to a kingdom where we'll all have eternal life"? Check the tomb, MFers; it's empty!

It's funny how rationalists really think they're too smart to fall for the scam that is organized religion when half of them earnestly believe that we're just a few years out from the machine superintelligence bringing about the end of the world.