Until we can have a commons of facts, until we can agree on objective truth, we will never have a way to engage in respectful debate on differences of opinion.

"Debate is a tricky act between two humans who can both speak, listen, understand, and possibly evolve." - @rands (but Rands may not be here for much longer) . The post in full:

Perhaps the best use of #artificalintelligence to date. 😉

Running into someone you haven't seen in a decade at a Trader Joe's in Boston is pure magic.

". that we are talented at using information to connect lots of individuals. Unfortunately, this ability often goes hand in hand with believing in lies, errors, and fantasies.” ― @harari_yuval, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

“Contrary to what the naive view (of information) believes, Homo sapiens didn’t conquer the world because we are talented at turning information into an accurate map of reality. Rather, the secret of our success is. " 1/2.

1. Vote if you haven't already. 2. If the crazy that's become the US Presidential race has you ready to pull your hair out, try listening to this. It will stretch your brain. @Sara_Imari tackling the question, "What is life?" You'll thank me later.

"Nexus, A Brief History Of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" by @harari_yuval is a must-read/listen book. I will listen to this one a second and third time without question.

TLDR: Apple won the battle between Apple's new Clean Up feature in Photos and Adobe's Generative Remove. And it wasn't close.

RT @PrepCalTrack: Sharing his Mt. SAC Invitational photo album, here's Jeff Turner's @jeffturner generous-sized album from the action, plus….

My pics from Saturday's action at the @runmtsac Cross Country Invitational will be coming soon to @PrepCalTrack. Here's a taste.

RT @AnthropicAI: Over the past few months, our Interpretability team has put out a number of smaller research updates. Here’s a thread of s….

Well, today was the first day of the baseball season for me and it went pretty well. I sure do hope the rest of the season goes that well. 😉.

Does anyone have any experience with .

RT @PrepCalTrack: BOOM! Here are the new CIF-State rankings heading into a busy week end that includes Mt. SAC, Flat SAC, Kit Carson and Cl….

Raising children is hard. Raising adults is harder.

So this happened today. 😀 Our youngest graduated from Navy Bootcamp today!

Real experiences FTW.

Wow. @SadieEngelhardt is a beast.

“we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!” .