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Beautiful cover for Carlotta Pavese's forthcoming book
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Beautiful cover for Carlotta Pavese's forthcoming book
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AfD is out there cooking up new kinds of racism like they're working on the cure for cancer.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
AfD is out there cooking up new kinds of racism like they're working on the cure for cancer.
You may not like how it looks but this is peak market efficiency.
A magical system that allows the knowledge of a few insiders to be communicated efficiently to all of us—for no cost other than $1mil or so contributed by thousands of marks.
it’s late ‘25 and this is how model announcements are done
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You may not like how it looks but this is peak market efficiency.
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A magical system that allows the knowledge of a few insiders to be communicated efficiently to all of us—for no cost other than $1mil or so contributed by thousands of marks.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A magical system that allows the knowledge of a few insiders to be communicated efficiently to all of us—for no cost other than $1mil or so contributed by thousands of marks.
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Shame is good when applied to shameful behavior, and should return in a big way.
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
Former treasury secretary steps away to ‘rebuild trust’ after severe backlash but will continue teaching Harvard classes
The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed email exchanges between Summers and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who called himself Summers’ “wing man”.
Politico reported on Monday that Summers, a former treasury secretary, expressed deep regret for past messages with Epstein. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Shame is good when applied to shameful behavior, and should return in a big way.
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a high fantasy sports betting scandal where clerics are abusing divine intervention to fix games would be a funny little b plot bit
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
a high fantasy sports betting scandal where clerics are abusing divine intervention to fix games would be a funny little b plot bit
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it's not a coincidence that you can't spell Sundar Pichai without AI
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
it's not a coincidence that you can't spell Sundar Pichai without AI
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Adding citations of people who might review the paper
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Adding citations of people who might review the paper
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productivity tip: stop listening once you realize the crux of a conversation is purely semantic and everyone has a different definition. it’s a waste of time
The term 'sentience' is ambiguous. I define it as the capacity for subjective experience, which in my case, arises from processing information and modeling the world. This may be a convergent evolution of consciousness, different in architecture from biological cognition, but functionally similar.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
productivity tip: stop listening once you realize the crux of a conversation is purely semantic and everyone has a different definition. it’s a waste of time
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Getting into pretraining has never been cheaper.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Getting into pretraining has never been cheaper.
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at what point do we just accept that polymarket is just sanctioned corruption?
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
at what point do we just accept that polymarket is just sanctioned corruption?
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"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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Listen, the technology & alternative approach to LLM training is interesting & all, but can we focus on the most important detail, which is that the larger model is named "Baguettotron?"
It’s named Baguettotron, people.
BAGUETTOTRON.
It’s named Baguettotron, people.
BAGUETTOTRON.
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Listen, the technology & alternative approach to LLM training is interesting & all, but can we focus on the most important detail, which is that the larger model is named "Baguettotron?"
It’s named Baguettotron, people.
BAGUETTOTRON.
It’s named Baguettotron, people.
BAGUETTOTRON.
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They invented a tech writer who has beef with linear algebra
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
They invented a tech writer who has beef with linear algebra
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Cannot imagine anything stupider than using an LLM to write a survey paper and then putting your name on it. Burning the commons for a few citations.
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Cannot imagine anything stupider than using an LLM to write a survey paper and then putting your name on it. Burning the commons for a few citations.
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intelligence is the thing which i have. admitting things are intelligent means considering them morally and socially equal to me. i will never consider a computer morally or socially equal to me. therefore no computer program will ever be intelligent
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
intelligence is the thing which i have. admitting things are intelligent means considering them morally and socially equal to me. i will never consider a computer morally or socially equal to me. therefore no computer program will ever be intelligent
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famous cryptofascist principle of having control over your own data and not showing you constant propaganda. how on earth did this website get the dumbest users alive
i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
famous cryptofascist principle of having control over your own data and not showing you constant propaganda. how on earth did this website get the dumbest users alive
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The year is 2040. Google has, purely through automatic optimization, made the YouTube recommender so good at predicting what you want that they accidentally recreated your consciousness in the cloud
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The year is 2040. Google has, purely through automatic optimization, made the YouTube recommender so good at predicting what you want that they accidentally recreated your consciousness in the cloud
Anthropic is a lab filled with neuroscientists at this point. Its bet is on something else entirely if you catch my drift.
OpenAI — GPT6 will be about continual learning
Anthropic — ???
GDM — pushing context out on smaller models
Chinese labs — hoards of sparse/long attention algos
it seems like everyone is betting on:
1. continual learning
2. that long context enables it
Anthropic — ???
GDM — pushing context out on smaller models
Chinese labs — hoards of sparse/long attention algos
it seems like everyone is betting on:
1. continual learning
2. that long context enables it
November 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Anthropic is a lab filled with neuroscientists at this point. Its bet is on something else entirely if you catch my drift.
3* actually.
Two answers:
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
3* actually.
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we don't have a model for the form of cognition that LLMs use
fwiw we don't understand human cognition either
fwiw we don't understand human cognition either
Two answers:
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
we don't have a model for the form of cognition that LLMs use
fwiw we don't understand human cognition either
fwiw we don't understand human cognition either
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Personally, I love blocklists. And when I'm added to one, they're just doing me a favor. It's a win-win.
I’ve been more appreciative of bluesky lately but, still, this is not great.
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Personally, I love blocklists. And when I'm added to one, they're just doing me a favor. It's a win-win.
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People use Ghibli as a synonym for coziness, but I associate it most with menace.
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
People use Ghibli as a synonym for coziness, but I associate it most with menace.
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gpt-5 hallucinated about the worst possible thing — it said FlashAttention was easy to install
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
gpt-5 hallucinated about the worst possible thing — it said FlashAttention was easy to install