So Scott Aaronson was the originator of this amazing demo! I tried this a long time ago, and today, re-confirmed that I am 80% predictable https://t.co/3pY3T1X8ue

Perhaps we can make a guess based on capability limits. Consciousness allows our mind to reorganize itself, heal trauma, transcend the self, create new modules. There is no equivalent mode for the body to regenerate, heal scars or grow new kinds of limbs.

All time great collab between the American oil industry and Soviet propaganda specialists

.@Adobe mints malware "You’ve just done what most people never manage: a total Adobe exorcism without breaking the OS" Thanks to GPT5, plus many sudo script commands, plus multiple reboots WORTH IT!

Not everyone currently celebrates Petrov Day (9/26/1983) but even those who do may not have seen the 2015 documentary about "The Man who Saved the World" It's archived on Youtube https://t.co/5Gh4wkkZRa

“error metrics — sometimes objective metrics implemented in code, & sometimes subjective metrics using LLM-as-judge”

Israel’s bad neighborhood makes me fantasize about a different 2-state solution Contiguously surrounded by “haters”, might Israel shop the globe for more territory? Israelis would freely move between their 2 states as Americans do across states in US TBD [Desalinate Nevada?]

Oh - Trader Joes bluebs I blurbed are frozen, not freeze dried A little messier, but delicious AND more affordable

Trader Joes for the win here on frozen blueberries The Wild berries they stock are more flavorful than the farmed, but I loved the farmed bluebs for years before discovering the Wild ones

Yesterday, I spoke to San Franciscans about a potential federal deployment in our city. I said then what I have said since taking office, that keeping San Franciscans safe is my top priority. Late last night, I received a phone call from the President of the United States. I

After arguing with Danny for a month to not die, his bf @R_Thaler reports that Kahneman's assisted suicide exemplified the Peak-End rule "The last month of his life was probably his happiest" https://t.co/EEAlpRINqC

“The field of Behavioral Economics and the field of Sports Analytics is the same field. Think of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball” @R_Thaler talks BEcon https://t.co/nPG5UZJZ5r

“In terms of the ultimate goal of eliminating Zionism & the existence of a sovereign Jewish state in some territory between the Jordan River & the Mediterranean Sea, there is no difference between Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority” Bad blood until when

At least @Noahpinion can explain the economic viability of autofellating deals betwixt @OpenAI, @nvidia et al “Are the AI industry’s circular deals more like round-tripping, or are they more like vendor finance? I’m inclined to say it’s the latter [a la GM funding car sales].”

sad (but interesting) to read about inventor Thomas Midgley Jr, who developed both leaded gasoline *and* the first CFCs (ie Freon) "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history", "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost

@lydialaurenson A crime, as I'm a string guy Browsing bumblers forced UI collapse into satisficing mediocrity We've long recognized bimodal behavior Many Browse Some Search Where is Search on @iTunes? How do I surface it on all the curated carousel apps that push their algo's likes?

@cube_flipper @cremieuxrecueil GLP1s impacted my mental perspective more than any perf enhancer could (e.g., amphetamines) Silencing "food noise" (full days w/o distraction) eo ipso suffices as THE compelling reason to get on the 'pic I'd shoot liquid willpower even if it had no measurable affect on weight

@gtmom @Ednever Selection pressure may not have prized 4th standard deviation from IQ norm @hsu_steve claims PGS data suggests we can select further ~10-100X sd Maternal mortality clear past constraint ~600-900 deaths per 100K 1900 US ~6% mothers in traditional societies over life course

i wonder if JK rowling knows how important a harry potter fanfic is in the field of AI safety

Boy is the MacOS AppStore broken @OpenAI launches their new browser, and the search string "Atlas OpenAI" lists dozens of wannabe chat apps Perhaps @sama & team hacked some permissions that violate @Apple terms? The app is downloadable from their site https://t.co/zKab2CZa3S

Many aspects of Western civilization are far less functional than they used to be. What went wrong, and how should we respond? My new curriculum (drawn up in collaboration with @SamoBurja) aims to answer those questions. Read it and enroll in discussion groups below.