breakthroughs of the year www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/frontier2025

A call for one of you to do something www.gleech.org/prospect

ur da cries to Suno bluegrass

it's obvious why there's a wittgenstein cult and a heidegger cult but htf is there a popper cult

Various new posts from the last couple months:

GPT-5 numbers: * HCAST/RE-Bench 50%: +25% rel, to 2h17m, SOTA * HCAST/RE-Bench 80%: +25% rel, to 25mins, SOTA * (Tier 1-3) FrontierMath: +5% abs, SOTA * SWE-Bench Verified: same as Claude 4.1 * <1% improvement on other coding benchmarks * Aider: +3% abs, SOTA * Cost/perf: seems much worse

More on Cremeux cherry-picking data to support his claims and generally operating in bad faith (H/T Ozy Brennan) lexerlux.substack.com/p/another-cr...

I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. (1/5) scottaaronson.blog?p=9030

the scenario we all feared

Gilles and the Delusions

Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.

I read the article you shared and it says exactly what Alec describes.

You might not like how they're characterising this (fair enough) but it seems to be true that the wind farm had to cease operation for purely procedural reasons.

New paper out, with one Arb author: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... LLMs consistently prefer LLM text. This maybe implies future AIs discriminating against humans as a class.

new tagline for the ol' firm

Happy Sunday here is the essay! The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

PSA: The new Snapdragon chips are amazing and Ubuntu finally works on them discourse.ubuntu.com/t/faq-ubuntu...

I wrote a class on the psychological/literary view of LLM behaviour www.gleech.org/narratives

"Urchin" is an amazing name for a marketing tracker which makes links uglier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_...

"a practical man is a man who practises the blunders of his predecessors."

Coming out against the field of audio engineering t.co/O8AKjxk0Cm

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

This post is more for the Twitter remnant class. For you lot I should be a booster www.gleech.org/llms

a story about voting www.gleech.org/acoemetae

We've reviewed as much of the year's AI safety work as possible. 11000 words but it's not really for reading. www.lesswrong.com/posts/fAW6RX...

various lists the twitter crossposter can't handle:

Statistically, the most hated book I love is "The Age of Em" (+1.6 stars). The most loved book I hate is Gibran's "The Prophet" (-3.2). The most hated album I love is "Storm & Stress" (+1 stars) or "A New Dope". The most loved album I hate is "Led Zeppelin IV" (-2 stars).

incredible plot summary

New timeline, same problems, same solution

When I see a Bad Idea published multiple times without much pushback, it's time to speak up: Transmissible vaccines are an awful idea. The topic of my new post: splittinginfinity.substack.com/p/transmissi...

Steering between the scylla of a website that is mostly just boring but sometimes sanctimonious and the charybdis of a website that is mostly just bait but sometimes evil... Looking for the juicy moot flotsam that neither sea-beast devoured...

Claude has been giving me some some really odd code lately

This is by far the silliest thing I’ve written, hope you like it gracekind.net/sensorytrans...

https://x.com/g_leech_/status/1864354552520007750

speculative breakthroughs of 2024