holy shit!

nobody is ever trying to convince anyone else of the strength or veracity of their argument, or cut reality at the joints, or map the territory everyone is always trying to make epistemic dominance claims. "follow this map, even if it conflicts with your lying eyes, so i know you care"

I’m trying to figure out how to gibber madly about the end being nigh without being dismissed as a crank by non experts. Yes I worked with Opus 4.6 for the first time today how could you tell? 🧵(1/2)

Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness. The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models. web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802

China is beating the brakes off of everyone else with audio, video and image AI and they keep making it open source thats so hilarious. The US tried to lock them out of chips so they made training AI more efficent. Oops you created your own best competitor.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

69.17% on ARC-AGI-2… In February 2026. I’m on record as saying it will be solved by December this year and lead directly to ASI mid next year, but it’s one thing to map trends intellectually and another to see them happen right in front of you.

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

yeah i know that LLMs might not be conscious, but ppl using models of mentality to predict LLM responses to inputs are going to smoke the fuck out of the mechanical interpretationists for a while

Hatsune Miku is so talented. Who else has a resume as varied as writing Sandman, developing Minecraft, and saving France at the Battle of Verdun?

How can it be that it all just comes down to "they're chasers and if trans people have rights they're harder to sex traffic?" THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES! Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.

Claude code will change the world. I just used it to make a neat little script that extracts text from internet sources and reads them through Qwen3-TTS. Two hours of work and I can now listen to any ACOUP blog post or project gutenburg book, which is heaven for my dyslexia.

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

feels really weird seeing so many ppl switching to linux and being like "huh this isn't as complicated as i expected" after years of my being the weirdo who used it and told ppl it wasnt as complicated as they expected. but hey welcome aboard lol

yeah uhhhh I have bad news for you about how those sexbot LLMs are trained (or mechanical turked), it turns out they literally give Black cis workers gender dysphoria using coercion. data-workers.org/michael/

I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

ICE are abducting 5 year olds, using them as bait to get to their family, and shipping them to a Texas concentration camp all in a single day. We need a Nuremberg for everyone involved. Abolish ICE isn't enough.

You know you’ve found the right web source for ML theory / diagrams when the text is in Chinese and there are dancing anime girls in the background. I’m starting to think China will win the AI arms race. Not that doing so will matter as much as Washington thinks it will.

Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness. The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models. web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

Tired of reading pages and pages of horribly awful philosophy of mind? Read pages and pages of good philosophy of mind instead: scythiamarrow.org/archive/Essa...

The winner of the 2025 bergruen essay competition is some dude who thinks AI can’t possibly be conscious and whose only argument is human exceptionalism and mathematical misunderstandings. He misrepresents *multiple* of my areas of expertise, not only computer science but also complex systems.

chainlink by @dollspace.gay is incredible! Forcing claude to break up large changes into chunks let me catch multiple mistakes and turned it into something I could actually rely on. Very cool.

So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK. WTF

All the lesbians on my timeline be like. Bit funny that the divine snake stole gwenny’s hat.

The list of U.S universities betraying the fundamental principles of academia and the scientific method continues to grow. The University of Oklahoma must be destroyed. It should lose accreditation and all papers from affiliated researchers should be rejected. To submit to an apparatchik is to die.

Boston public library is amazing and libby is a treasure of humanity. I’ve been wanting an app that recommends me less popular works that are still awesome, turns out your local library has that on lock already?

This is why I support freedom of expression. Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing. Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.

girl who is normal voice: calling off off work is so humiliating. why wasn't i stronger

Sam3 is so good it makes me vomit from envy. It’s beautiful. #MLsky

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I haven’t danced in forever but I danced in the rain to revolver girl today while waiting for the buss. Your body never forgets, I had so much fun. Song if you want to dance along spotify.link/RPVEXB7DTXb

polychrome parade

If a university’s choice is between dying and becoming subject to the whims of an apparatchik the university must die. Texas A&M should lose accreditation. Journals should not publish articles from researchers affiliated with Texas A&M. Conferences should not invite nor admit Texas A&M researchers.

I hope everyone will forgive the bluntness of my language, but it seems like bluntness is warranted: it now seems pretty clear that the president raped children or at least knew about and actively facilitated the rape of children. I think it is time we stopped using coded language to say that.

The curse of being 2 months early then 4 months late strikes again. YoloE is very, very good. Trex2 performance in 140ms on a laptop? Incredible. #MLsky #ComputerVision

Worst part about ML nowadays is being 4 months into a hobby project solving a neat problem in a neat way only to discover the VC backed framework for solving said problem in said neat way and also baking cookies was released two months ago. LangGraph is very very good. I’m not salty about it. Nope.

Video stills of Rümeysa Öztürk being released from ICE custody via NBC 10 Boston

Gonna do every newspaper in America a favor and write their headline. It reads: TRUMP DISCUSSES FOREIGN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BUKELE There you go. Don't even need to credit me.

Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.13395 Erik Hoel’s recent paper on Causal Emergence is very interesting. He formulates causal emergence as an integral instead of a difference which resolves a lot of lingering issues with the mathematics, and provides a solid foundation for ML theory to work with. #MLsky #AIsky

abcnews.go.com/US/tufts-phd... This is tyranny. ICE needs to get out of Boston; tyrants are not welcome here. The rubicon is crossed and we must respond by defending our people and our freedom. The only morally acceptable response to this abomination is to throw anything ICE owns into the harbor.

So the admin. arrested a green-card activist on pretext but clearly over speech, revoked his green-card without process and is now holding him God-knows-where, while his citizen wife frets in the dark. That's...just tyranny. The act of a tyrant. In America, we used to know what to do with tyrants.

Zhang et al recently published an absolutely stellar paper relating casual emergence and reversibility in Markov processes, building off the work of Erik Hoel. This is a must-read for any ML theorist. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #MLSky #AISky #machinelearning

CVAT downloads broke today. Am I really going to have to format my datasets myself? Hope it’s fixed by tomorrow >->