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November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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What to do?

1. scrape the Archive for Google queries and audit decreasing frontpage quality

2. start longitudinal collection on Google quality (and the LLMs now before in-chat ads arrive)

3. More generally do "prospective science", collect data now about things we think will go down the toilet.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Google search sure seems to have gotten worse. But we failed as a civilisation to track this and now we can't quantify it.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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www.gleech.org/barriers
Ways we can fail to answer
In what ways can we can fail to answer a question?(I mean necessarily fail: actual barriers to knowledge, rather than skill issue hurdles. But of course ...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/god
What god has to do in mathematics
He picks from uncountably many sets simultaneously without an algorithm.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/nysound
NY sounds
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/editron
AI editing: a test
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/inference
Abusing "inference"
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/tallinn
Tallinn
That’s why you can never trust a good person, for he will freely do evil - purely for justice’s sake, so that everyone may be the same [miserable].
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/music2024
On 900 albums of 2024
Last year, I tuned the fuck in: I listened to 914 albums released last year. I had a few aims: capturing the zeitgeist; seeing if our usual sense that new st...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/deen
Aberdeen
Mica glittered from the white stone.Town of the pure crystal,I learnt Latin in your sparkling cage,I loved your brilliant streets.Places that have been g...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/glesga
Glasgow
Here’s the bird that never flew;Here’s the tree that never grew;Here’s the fish that never swam;Here’s the bell that never rang.― superficially apocalyp...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/rats-and-trads
Rats and trads
Recently I spent some time at a liberal arts college, doing close reading out loud with a group of the profs. It was lovely; stimulating, collegial, civilise...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/theisms
theisms
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.Laurel i...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.gleech.org/ambitions
ambitions
When someone accumulates money and wants more, or fame or acclaim and wants more, or climbs the ladder of large organisations, or thinks everyone else is wro...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The METR eval is worth reading throughout - they anticipated most of my objections

metr.github.io/autonomy-eva...
Details about METR’s evaluation of OpenAI GPT-5
Resources for testing dangerous autonomous capabilities in frontier models
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August 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Refs:

epoch.ai/frontiermath

If you assume GPT-5 fails all 23 excluded SWE-Bench problems, then Claude 4.0 > GPT-5
x.com/gneubig/stat...

other coding
x.com/eli_lifland/...

aider.chat/docs/leaderboa
FrontierMath
FrontierMath is a benchmark of hundreds of unpublished and extremely challenging math problems to help us to understand the limits of artificial intelligence.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM