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my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

In January 2020 I said we had pulled off a miracle in that we had democratically ousted an outright fascist regime. it turns out the regime might have actually been more located in the media space, and without destroying that, it still persisted

The Weight of Letters: A Depths Scenario Guide Explore a character-driven RPG scenario set in underground Karst society. Follow Oma Tessik's intimate decision about love and belonging across distance in this detailed narrative framework.

ahahahaha my random scenario generator works
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3blue1brown on youtube, basically all of it but in this context especially his linear algebra sequence (linked). welch labs has distinguished himself for ai stuff in particular. hon mention: professor dave does short lectures on like, every single thing in math.

www.3blue1brown.com/topics/linea...

i realize that i am the only person on earth who is interested in this but it is genuinely insane that it is possible to one-shot a computer into producing this particular document
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

look at this shit!

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

i think "how much and what information is going in and out" is important but where your thinky bits are relative to your body or whether the body really exists aren't

Data centers don't raise household water bills at all, anywhere A lot of journalism on AI's water impacts is misleading

I've edited this and now think it's the very best thing I've done on AI and the environment, by a wide margin andymasley.substack.com/p/i-cant-fin...

AGI: Probably Not 2027 AI 2027 is a web site that might be described as a paper, manifesto or thesis.

"AI 2027" argues that AI will reach roughly human level in roughly 2027. This just happens to be right about when OpenAI would expect to start to run out of money.

I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong.

www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...

because whatever is different about human cognition -- whatever separates is from other apes -- seems to relate to the very strong frontal suppression of what are naively very useful instincts. in other words, intelligence seems to be a form of exaptive generalization from specialized capabilities.

Every time you share the “3 Bs in blueberry thing” and no one explains its relation to tokenizers, you help everyone get just a tiny bit less informed

Total Theory of Vibe cultural victory alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

specifically, i think that what people describe as "qualia" is coactivation of naively unrelated concepts due to their similarity when projected down to a low-dimensional representation

Okay so the neat thing here is that with the way ChatGPT’s memory works, it probably really is ideal for creating psychotic breaks because it lets you ideate anything in a reproducible manner.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

hunyuan video (the premier off-the-shelf video diffusion model) comes with a suite of IPadapters which allow you to swap in consistent characters and bind action in the scene to existing video in a way which controls the morphing and clipping which is right now diagnostic of most video models.

Transformer Circuits Thread Can we reverse engineer transformer language models into human-understandable computer programs?

i think that the answer to "is it intelligence" is neither "no" nor "yes." if you have the background to read it, the Transformer Circuits series of papers by Anthropic are some of the most interesting things out there.
transformer-circuits.pub

anyway, if you were wondering why David Shor keeps arguing that Republicans will never pay an electoral penalty for racism under any circumstances, this is why

on the puritan left because i don’t want to discourse with a guy who thinks i’m subhuman

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition

They discover numbers are represented in these LLMs as a generalized helix, which is strongly causally implicated for the tasks of addition and subtraction, and is also causally relevant for integer division, multiplication, and modular arithmetic.

Feelings of Structure in Life, Art, and Neural Nets One of the basic ways we navigate the world is through ‘feelings of structure’ -- our experience of the inner logic of a system or a situ...

By the way you can catch my talk for the 38th Chaos Communication Congress last December here media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU.

It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵

Full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c...

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Bridging the Human-AI Knowledge Gap: Concept Discovery and Transfer in AlphaZero Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have made remarkable progress, attaining super-human performance across various domains. This presents us with an opportunity to further human knowledge and improv...

One of my grand interpretability goals is to improve human scientific understanding by analyzing scientific discovery models, but this is the most convincing case yet that we CAN learn from model interpretation: Chess grandmasters learned new play concepts from AlphaZero's internal representations.

llms are a neat trick that lets you train sequence to sequence while executing auto-generatively. diffusion models are a neat trick to learn a distribution to distribution map.

the loudest ai skeptics are not at all interested in why these models work so well despite their simplicity

This paper is now officially out, open access here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...