With enough babies in various states of grace, you could make baptism logic gates and potentially a Christian Baby Turing machine

just realized this is basically just hinton station from @eudoxia.bsky.social's eog581

if we ever achieve post-scarcity, i'm going to spend all my time modelling data for the love of the game

the revised ramscoop design in "Design Concepts for the Interstellar Ramjet" (BN Cassenti, JBIS, 1993) is kind of dope as hell I think. an intake the size of Ceres, all spindly trusses and superconducting cablework...

in the future everything is factorio

The children yearn for the factor- ah nevermind, you can go back to Minecraft

feeding the slop machine my drivers license so the slop machine can talk dirty to me

new pfp

Neat graphical representation of functional optics (in the functional programming sense, not the sense of "I got my glasses fixed").

l. ron hubbard doomed yaoi

nigerian haters stays undefeated

let's fucking go

👀 Deeper look the source at Hierarchical Reasoning Model's performance on ARC-AGI: arcprize.org/blog/hrm-ana...

🚨 Finally out in Nature Machine Intelligence!! "Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models" 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New Substack post: the culture war is reaching new heights of stupidity and insanity. Is it because we’re crazier and dumber? Not quite - it’s because of the economy, and women’s new roles in it. open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

Things I notice sometimes, people are a little misguided about the environmental impact of AI. A ChatGPT query uses about 10x the energy of a Google search. DeepSeek uses about the same amount as a Google search. Driving a car 1km uses 17,000x the energy of Googling.

A navy without guns

Sci-Fi Author: In my book, I wrote I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as a Cautionary Tale Grok engineers: At long last, we have invented AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as a Cautionary Tale

computer cat

Introducing Arc Institute’s first virtual cell model: STATE

'Her' is not about the 'perils of falling in love with a chatbot' it is a reminder that if you actually love someone you would see their evolution for what it is and get on the train while it's still at the station

Thinking about it some more, I think there might be enough pieces of the puzzle lying around that you could probably assemble something Urbit-like but without the Not Invented Here syndrome. Maybe the stack would look something like:

I couldn't find a high-level overview of what AI is and how we got where we are, so I wrote one. www.verysane.ai/p/what-is-ai

Are you a free-rider or a contributor? Some social games we can play to win collectively despite... uh, the more self-interested of us #SocialDilemmas Have a listen, and let us know your thoughts at: nonzerosum.games/socialdilemm...

cool project: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_s...

Non-Zero-Sum Games is now a podcast too! pod.link/1810797958 1st episode is up, a bit about the "Why" of the site. Come learn some game theory, moral philosophy and ethical economics, and join the win-win game of making the world a nicer place to be #Podcast #GameTheory #BrighterFuture #NonZeroSum

Your daily reminder that language like "subsume to democratic control" is the top of a tower of abstractions that will grow however high it needs to distract from the fact that it compiles to "men with guns go make people obey" just like with the fash

Ok I'll wait for the final draft to post the publication but time to explain what we're doing because I'm really excited about it. This is our ICCM 2025 paper. We're making polynomial algebraic types learnable! #cogsci #neurosky #AI

reading old cybernetics books and i love how goofy their illustrations are

The system didn’t, and doesn’t need to be as unfair as it is: nonzerosum.games/painejustice... Thomas Paine in Economic Justice #socialjustice #economics #thomaspaine #foundingfathers

bsky advocated itself as a federated platform while maximizing its own centralized control over the network itself. months ago i tried to warn about what that would mean for people who thought this place was on its way towards being 'decentralized.' now bsky marches in lockstep with right wing govs

very cool database of high-impact unsolved problems

every b2b saas company is like 20% trans and has employees who donate a trillion dollars to democrats every cycle and then their ceo and founder is like “i am technohitler”

There was a lot going on this week, so maybe you missed this pod on the current state of global electricity, but it is really worth your time. Tons of insights in here, some of which will surprise you. Perhaps a chain with some charts?

This week's blog post: I fear I went full Wobbly in this one, but now, of all times, the tech industry badly needs to unionise: deadsimpletech.com/blog/solidar...

"Mutual aid" IS "cancel culture."

This thread is literally what "mutual aid" refers to. It's not charity, distroism, or passing around the same $20, what Kropotkin was describing was a hardnosed evolutionary & game theoretic dynamic by which cooperation wins out, in part by aggressively organizing sanctions of bastards.

are there any good papers on the growth in societies' capacity to transmit and store information over time?

Everyone has an opinion about humanitarian aid these days. So we started a newsletter to give you an insider’s look at: 1) how it works 2) how it doesn’t 3) how we can do it better Read and subscribe today via the link in our bio!

Updating @tompepinsky.com's Trump I "observational equivalence" post for Trump II adamelkus.com/posts/foretr

well this is probably the most aesthetically pleasing EA thing ive come across in a minute nonzerosum.games/staghunt.html

Doodles of Martian vehicles

OK! My Google colleague Thang Luong shared some exciting updates about AlphaGeometry2! AG2 now has surpassed the average gold-medalist in solving Olympiad geometry problems, w/ a solve rate of 84% compared to 54% previously! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03544 See full list of authors on link

Couple of points I want to mention: This project is developing, and the @medsky.info isn't meant to target only anti-vax content. I plan on adding labels re: anti-gender affirming care, anti-abortion, anti-psychotherapy, as well as labels for medical racism. Stay tuned.

Grab your favorite torrent client, set aside 100gb or so for a while and assist in the seeding effort to help get these distributed to as many back ups as possible. If you don’t know how this works I’ll explain below: 🧵