If AI was actually intelligent you'd think it would've told Sam Altman how to make profits by now...

Clearly, the use of LLMs to summarise and analyse scientific (or otherwise) documents is well justified. Their understanding is, at least, at a human level. The following example (image attached) strongly supports their intellectual capabilities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like this. @philipcball.bsky.social explaining how reductionism is necessary, but not sufficient to understand How Life Works. youtu.be/zaON7ud8kQM?... I wonder if he's familiar with Alicia Juarrero's explanation of messy coherence? (Why it's necessary.) aliciajuarrerodotcom1.wordpress.com

I don't want to put a downer on Artemis. I'm very happy to see people excited by it. I would just like to see all that positive energy harnessed to shout louder about what's going on.

To be clear, no, that is not correct. That's not how science determines what is true bec science does not determine what is true. That's not the job. We describe, explore, explain, understand, predict, estimate, measure, and do other things, using many tools. We do not arbitrate truths.

You should be glad about this, Iris. You are doing a great job convincing little men to publicly expose their ineptitude, ignorance and arrogance for all to see and enjoy. Not too difficult, I know, but the more the merrier! 😌

Game designers develop test for AI (ARC-AGI-3): The model gets dropped in and has to explore, discover what winning is, and adapt in real time. Humans: 100% Gemini 3.1 Pro: 0.37% GPT 5.4: 0.26% Opus 4.6: 0.25% Grok-4.20: 0.00% Scaling alone will not close this gap. So we may be far from AGI.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Many people—from sitting politicians to Joe Rogan—have suggested that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead and replaced by AI. I wrote about why mass digital delusions like these are about to become much more common, thanks to AI and the perverse incentives of algorithmic social media. Gift link:

Executives use the promise of an AI revolution to wallpaper over their managerial incompetence.

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When I step back for a moment, I find it amazing that we do have to specify that the Jewish volunteer community ambulance service also looks after people who aren’t Jewish. I do understand antisemitism is so common that ppl presume Jews would leave non-Jews suffering.

An arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service isn’t about Israel. It isn’t about Zionism, or American imperialism, or capitalism, or war in the Middle East. It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes. Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.

Good if we all want to reduce our dependency on the US, but stupid if we replace it with becoming more dependent on China. Trump is doing exactly what Xi has being doing at every opportunity.

Changes to gene names or proper software help. But the overarching problem with spreadsheets is that errors (1) occur silently, (2) can be hidden in thousands of rows of data, and (3) are difficult to audit. Excel is generally incompatible with the principles of computational reproducibility.

sometimes, not infrequently, we confuse someone being a jerk w their points being bad. on the flip side, we elevate a lot of bad takes bec we generally like the person making them. sorting all this thru publicly is impossible due to social media dynamics so we gotta practice doing it on our own.

Decision-based Evidence-making

The Bafta slur incident really turned out to be a great litmus test for people/groups where the moral compass is stuck (broken). It's still right once every rotation. ;-) And for the really clever observer: note any correlation with any other subject of popular outrage?

Wow.

i love the kinds of illusions that completely disappear as soon as you squint your eyes. they're like a tiny little light-hearted prank rather than complete destruction of everything you thought was real.

bigthink.com/13-8/nature-... by @adamfrank4.bsky.social

If you left Twitter for moral reasons, how can you stay on substack? Why i never will pay for a substack. @iandunt.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social

Also, the article is paywalled and he’s oblivious to the irony.

As if normal people buy iPhones every day. Brought to you from the PoV where privilege is like water to a fish.

Kid Rock is exclusively for people who clap on the 1 and 3

I've been working on this one for a while. It's about how we got here, and where we're going. I hope you'll read it to the end. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Although the confidence that they can anticipate what we need for parliamentary democracy in 60 years is adorable.

Headline shows that decision making in this process is dominated by people who are either incompetent (there for the wrong reasons) or focused on maximising their benefit. Example for @iandunt.bsky.social next edition of www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/ian-d... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This should be reported as a bribe that makes Amazon money, not as a movie that loses Amazon money...

Exactly as predicted by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

it's funny how this article frames the issue as being that an ai will rebel against you, when the issue is that you've installed shitty insecure software and given it root access

Be totally consumerist (i.e. environmentally and socially extractive), so that you can then pretend that you exert pressure by acting responsibly for a short period of time. So, those of us, who for years constrained our consumption guided by social and environmental concern, have no power, again.

Adelaide and the crisis of free speech iandunt.substack.com/p/adelaide-a...

TFW the biggest reassurance that we're not completely fucked comes from the fact that all the Neo-royalist stand out at being totally incompetent leaders, evidenced by the fact that they remove anyone with competence from their clique (yes, including Xi). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All organising is self organising, though we don't always understand the contextual self.

Our perishing at the hands Of AI is the new “fusion is always 30 years away” (now that fusion might actually really be 30 years away?). 😂

Pleasure to join the "Generals of WWII" Podcast and discuss the leadership of Admiral Nimitz. #NotAGeneral podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

The bigoted entitlement in the replies.. and I know such comparisons are fraught, but it is frightening to witness directly the first signs of what, last time around, allowed a world to be lead into, in one part to commit a holocaust, but also in many parts turn away and enable its scale.

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

It's exhausting. I never thought I'd say this but feeling so bleak this morning, part of me wishes they'd cut the smokescreen and just admit they don't like Jews - in Israel or anywhere else. Embrace the racism. Stop pretending they're the good guys on the side of progressive values. Be honest.

At a certain point I think we have to move beyond saying things are "sociotechnical" and defining the actual socio- that we mean

sorry Leibniz, best of all possible worlds is any world as experienced by cats

@bsky.app Appears from today on iOS, the font size selection no longer works. I get the same tiny font whichever setting I am using. Please fix.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

How it started (quote post) How it's going (linked article) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Peace Dealing: the practice of engaging in endlessly negotiating a peace deal in order not to be punished for continuing the conflict, also creates opportunities for bystanders to find exploits to enriching themselves.