Andrew Hires

Until we change these human systems to prioritize intelligent defense of life and property, these disasters will continue with ever greater impacts.

“And still I see no changes…”

11. A culture of complacency at government agencies that must coordinate to effectively prevent future conflagrations.

12. A lack of understanding by most residents that these agencies cannot be relied upon to effectively prevent or fight catastrophic fires over long time horizons.

It's the year GLP1s went mainstream and peptide writ large have achieved a certain level of notoriety.

9. 500 gallon fire trucks designed for urban environments, not for urban wildlife interface.

10. Regulations prohibiting water tankers from staging at the fire line, causing long turnaround times between emptying and refilling each 500 gallon fire truck. 2 minutes of spray, 20 minutes to reload.

7. Irresponsible 18-month draining of the 117M gal main reservoir supplying water tanks and hydrants, to fix a tear in the cover.

8. With hydrants dry, inability for LAFD trucks pull water from pools of homes. Only residents with pumps could save themselves. Thousands of homes burned on Days 2 & 3.

6. No fire trucks or hand crews present on the burn scar during a widely advertised Particularly Dangerous Situation of the worst forecast winds and fire weather in 20 years. Everyone knew we were in grave danger. Why wasn't a single firefighter deployed the most dangerous spot in LA?

4.Failure to bulldoze a burn scar perimeter to avoid damaging an environmentally sensitive plant.

5.Placement of dry brush on the hand lines that give access to the scar to protect the plants.

1.Mentally unstable person committing arson on New Year's Day.

2.Incomplete suppression of the resulting fire.

3.Removal of all fire fighting equipment and hoses from the burn site within a day of the original fire, with smoke still showing on the ground.

Palisades Fire

Exactly one year ago, on this spot, a fire broke out that destroyed our city. The surrounds and community look very different today. These massive disasters will continue until these specific factors are addressed and mitigated.

Reasons for the disaster below (a partial list):

What’s the next number in this sequence (just handed to me by my 6yo son).

Simple but stumped me and GPT.

YouTube video by Samuel Hires Resistance is Futile: AGI-Augmented Research and the New Scientific Method

Today, I gave an informal seminar to students and faculty on the accelerating impact new AI models like o3 will have on research and how to navigate those changes.

Check it out👇

Resistance is Futile: AGI-Augmented Research and the New Scientific Method youtu.be/x6gv68fHw7Q?... via @YouTube

Best view at USC.

Unfortunately all my submissions are outstanding, so I don’t have the appropriate test set. 😅

I expect you could easily put the finger on the scale to be more aggressive in critiques with an o3-level model though. For future explorations…

It's been 3.5 months since this experiment on scientific reasoning. The improvements in SOTA models since are remarkable.

Here's OpenAI's o3 model's first attempt at reviewing my 2017 R01-A1 submission. Would you do a better job?

Come on, you didn’t have just a twinge of curiosity about the experience of being assimilating into a galactically powerful collective super-intelligence? A bit of doubt that we, the humans, were the baddies?

a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom . ALT: a man with a robotic helmet on his head and the words `` resistance is futile '' written on the bottom .

The latest reasoning models (o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro), hold more knowledge, reason better, and communicate more clearly than you or me.

If you aren’t trying to integrate them to all elements of the research workflow, you are doing yourself and your trainees a disservice. Resistance is futile.

If you don't realize that AGI is already here, you must be too lazy or incurious to try o3.

Noooooo Spotify account needed. Not sure they have my bangers.

I have some new heaters.

Occasionally

Testing out DeepSeek-R1's ability to do "science" in one-shot.

I asked it to critique my 2017 R01 proposal (Impact 26, 10%, funded by NINDS. I wrote the proposal, have rights to share it.

It's first-shot response is indistinguishable from a median quality reviewer's.

What do we do now?

If anyone wants to follow along, I have a bunch of media posts on X. Sorry no time to duplicate.

Pacific Palisades is mostly destroyed. Half my friends have lost their homes. Mine not gone yet but not looking good.

How my day is going #PalisadesFire

Trying to get my ring video

Good morning 2025!

Thank you LAFD!

Carved

Missed you bro!

Still cooking

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