I think that we should all strive to live our lives in such a way that, when we die, our greatest accomplishments are not overshadowed by constant bickering about exactly how racist or sexist we were.

I think every one of my ML colleagues from a decade ago who stayed in academia and avoided the AGI/LLM race is now doing "AI for science". Really feels like those are the only two options left.

I feel like these Catholic converts who think they can argue with the Pope just did not do their research. If they want a religion where they can argue nonstop with everyone, up to and including God, they would obviously be better served by converting to Judaism.

Just checked on ClearSky and I'm not on a single blocklist and now I'm worried that I'm not influential enough.

Joel is on a mission to get the EA/rationalist set to embrace Rortyian pragmatism. It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it.

If things become so polarized that anything "AI", no matter how broadly construed, becomes knee-jerk associated with the Trumpian right wing, I should probably just kms. www.axios.com/2025/10/31/m...

I can't believe how fast they went from "removing this cookie-cutter statue is erasing history" to "well, the East Wing was kind of shabby anyway".

Even the Jacobins didn't tear down Versailles. They sold off the furniture and let it fall into disrepair, but they didn't just knock down a whole wing.

Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Obviously everyone on Bluesky is going to hate on this because it involves Musk, but the idea of using next-token-predictors (which LLMs are an instance of) to help the disabled communicate has a long history: www.inference.org.uk/dasher/Speci...

Trump basically forgot about the whole annexing Canada thing after like three months and hasn't mentioned it in ages, but America's reputation in Canada has been destroyed for a generation. Just one of a million sad stupid pointless things from the last year.

Even I’m not sure this will end well. Graphics courtesy of Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis.

The fate of the global economy hinges on whether the AGI race is the Manhattan Project or the Philosopher's Stone.

So IIUC, the position of the UK government is that Israel's actions in Gaza are so grave that there must be immediate recognition for a Palestinian state, but also that if you wear a shirt that says "Palestine Action" you are supporting a terrorist organization and should be arrested.

Ok maybe this site has the sauce.

Genuinely don't think I've ever seen a ratio this big. Certainly not on a post this obviously correct.

I have friends who live next to this road-turned-park. The article doesn't even mention that there is a second major road literally right next to the park.

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Trump's approval rating has been fairly steady, but his favorables have been falling off a cliff. Not really sure what to make of this - people are just happy their 401(k) is going up but increasingly hate Trump himself? (Source: Real Clear Polling)

The likely synthesis of "he's an antifascist" and "he's just a gamer" is "his understanding of what fascism is was entirely filtered through the lens of memes, gaming and obscure Discord servers."

These are not new, they've been around for over a decade. They're so old they've already been banned and removed in the UK.

Really this should have been such a blinking red warning light about where a society driven by social media virality was taking us.

Here in the UK, Royal Mail has stopped shipping packages to the US entirely. Private companies like DHL will still do it though.

Can't wait for DARPA to rebrand as WARPA, relocate to London and start releasing critically-acclaimed electronic music.

Oh God they're gonna rename it WARPA aren't they.

I'd missed this in the flood of insane news, but I guess this is good? There was never any reason to shut down the NIST spectroscopy group in the first place, but at least the work will continue elsewhere in the government (unless NASA gets gutted too). t.co/SBwBp6H9mr

A case study in how Cowen's uncritical use of GPT/o3 is causing him to spread misinformation on Marginal Revolution, from @pappubahry.com pappubahry.substack.com/p/misinforma...

Tencent, the world’s largest computer gaming company, released HunyuanWorld-Voyager as open-weight. The world’s first ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction, redefining AI-driven spatial intelligence for VR, gaming, and simulations.

Two different fish in two different ponds each accusing the other of not knowing what water is.

I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man

Have the zoomers doing age gap discourse discovered Harold and Maude yet?

So is the post office actually selling off all the electric delivery vans they bought like last year? Is that actually happening?

Just caught up with a friend doing a PhD in a top CS program. He got double-fucked by DOGE. His grant is in limbo because everyone who knows how to access the money got fired, and all the data that made the basis for his thesis got deleted.

I can post the exact same thing about Israel here and on Twitter. Over there, I'll get the most vile antisemitic shit in my replies, while here I'll get accused of being a vile antisemite.

Hope springs eternal. Let's see if RFK Jr actually lets them spend it on anything.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life. It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Pathetic that this is where we're at now.

New work with Douglas Hendry and Alessandro Sinibaldi: Grassmann Variational Monte Calro with neural wave functions arxiv.org/abs/2507.10287 This is a formalization and an extension (e.g. natural gradient descent-wise) of the nice excited-state framework for VMC developed by @davidpfau.com et al.

I'll be at ICML this week, presenting our paper on Wasserstein Policy Optimization on Tuesday! If you're in Vancouver, come say hi!

I really wish it was killing thousands of children across the globe, destroying our scientific institutions or all the, like, actual fascism that turned people against him, but if it's the Epstein thing that does it...fine, whatever. Live by the conspiracy theory, die by it.

non-ironically, there's much more tech innovation going on in a trench dugout near the frontlines in Ukraine than San Francisco

Doubly bizarre because AC is fully electrified, while heating is still mostly gas. Every eco-conscious person is pushing for heating to be electrified so that it automatically becomes green as the grid becomes green. But somehow the same logic doesn't apply to AC here?

I'm tempted to gloat about this, because it confirms basically all of my biases, but I actually wonder if this is the sort of study where the results change dramatically based on very subtle differences in how it's set up.

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Are there LK-99 truthers out there? Like is there a whole underground world of people who treat it the way some people treat ivermectin? I assume there aren't, because if there were, one would probably be Secretary of Energy right now.

The lack of small-l liberalism in the UK is really, really bad.

something I genuinely believe in a non-ideological sense is that you should be able to talk a little bit of shit about your employer online if you think they’re making a poor decision and still be able to keep your job

Ok, while we're doing ethnic categorization discourse, folks in the US might be amused to know that here in the UK, they break down "white" on most forms into subcategories, but only British, Irish and Other.

John Thune both looks like and has the name of a Superman villain.

If the DeepMind future (AlphaFold, open publishing) had won out over the OpenAI future (ChatGPT, closed APIs), AI would still be coded as left-wing.