Mark Crowley

Hey internet hive mind, is there a good LLM chatbot that's totally run and hosted in Canada that anyone could recommend, for vibe coding and writing brainstorming?

I assume this these questions were asked independently so it's not like they had to go and have them all up.

Interesting the kinds of mistakes we make when you focus too much on one thing and don't step back to look at the bigger picture.

Thanks for sharing this it's really interesting!

Sounds right, but I guess is what it comes down to :p. If people hear about something often enough they assume it must be significant so more than 10%, less than 50%.

How's everyone doing? You ok? Not long now. Just breathe, and have one more coffee.

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

given America's oversized impact on climate emissions, and global policy, reversing this, essentially giving up on fighting global warming, is putting the blood of millions of future lost lives on Trump's hands, and by Democratic extension, all Americans.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots A pro-Russia network is internally corrupting large-language models to reproduce disinformation and propaganda.

…Written about the necessity for better media literacy in the ai age as well.

thebulletin.org/2025/03/russ...

Why do philosophers worry so much about act state dependence, while economists don't care at all?

@soashworth.bsky.social asked me this question, and I had a few guesses. But I'd be interested to hear what others think

Good, that helps a bit, but there isn't really any way to tell a computer "no calculators", and "same time limit" is an inherent problem for any comparison of human and computer thinking. There's no real way to make a fair multiplier for time is for processing between machines and people.

Mark Crowley (@compthink) This is great research and a nice post explaining their high level results. They show very clearly that the standard Chatbot results and even the more advanced reasoning chatbots cannot be trusted to ...

My response to the great research from @sophiafreuden.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @garymarcus.bsky.social et. al. from the @americansunlight.org

tl;dr : I only disagree that more reasoning can fix problem soon. Ppl need to stop using chatbots for news, right now.

substack.com/@compthink/n...

For example, might be a good wedge to legally attack them, but I'm not optimistic at the moment

The explicit plan is to ethnically cleanse Gaza with US help while the whole world watches.

My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts.

This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:

Such a great description of what is really happening and why results on these challenges shed absolutely no light on AGI even while being impressive achievements.

AI Bait & Switch:

bait: we’re gonna make an AI that can solve any problem experts could solve. it’s gonna transform the whole world.

switch: what we have actually made is fun and amazing, but rarely reliable and often makes mistakes – but ordinary people makes mistakes, too. So … AGI solved!

Ah, iiss that, we had some great wild blackberry picking trips I'm Vancouver back in the day.

Surely making this available so recklessly to children is a very serious crime in many jurisdictions...?

Musk launches AI girlfriend available to 12-year-olds xAI’s ‘crazy in love’ chatbot Ani designed to engage in sexual conversations with users

As the father of a 12yo… no likey www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I’m mostly off twitter for a lot of reasons. One is that I don’t want my son to think it’s acceptable to be on twitter because of me.

Our teams in Gaza have again run out of food to cook. We have finished all the stock in hand, and our trucks are stuck at the border. We are continuing to bake bread and deliver water. #ChefsForGaza (1/2)

Ahuh...

Dems should promise to permanently constitutionally ban the entire process if they ever regain power.

They're such cowards they can even fight fair, afraid they'll lose, IN TEXAS!

Thepeopleunitedcanneverbedefeated.

Your optimization algorithm is a circuit!

In our NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight paper with Stephen Boyd, Tetiana Parshakova, Jaewook Suh, we present a framework for designing optimization algorithms using (electric) circuit theory.

(Video and paper links in reply)

Tulsi Gabbard calls for Obama to be prosecuted over 2016 election claims Trump intelligence chief accuses ex-president and others of ‘treasonous conspiracy’ for alleging Russian interference

See, it's never gonna stop. Ever.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Chips are the Thing... I was just watching this interview of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by Fareed Zakaria and it was wrong in so many subtle ways.

The Chips are the Thing...
open.substack.com/pub/compthin...

The people,

united,

can never

be

defeated.

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."

But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

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‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔

#StandWithUkraine

Wherever you are

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