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This is a paywall-free link the NYT Opinion account posted to Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...

The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.

Also he had been under FBI surveillance, which he was apparently aware of.

The Australian Human Rights Commission discussed many of these issues in its March report, "Protecting Cognition: Background Paper on Neurotechnology": https://humanrights.gov.au/o…

It came to light because some financial records were sent to the CIA's Retired Records Center for some reason and escaped destruction. See page 5 of [1]. [1] https://www.intelligen…

This reminds me of the Buddha's comparison of the Dhamma to a raft, which one does not carry around on his or her back after crossing over on it. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ti…

There's a little more information in this Reddit thread [1]. In it someone references an earlier work by Jason Zimba [2]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/11zptjo/an_impo…

Conversely, these models open up philosophical questions of "exactly what a human is" beyond language abilities. How much of what we think, do, and perceive comes from the use of l…

I wonder how effective it would be at finding exploitable security holes in code.

The relation is virtually always bidirectional, and often forms complex, dynamic feedback loops. Simple causal analysis can fail in such situations.

This is reminiscent of Soviet psychiatry and the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia" for dissidents.

It's already an English translation of a French paraphrase of a text of unknown provenance.

He's using Euler's Tonnetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz

It is a theory in the sense that it is epistemic. Bob's quantum state changes depending on Alice's measurement, essentially collapsing the probability distribution to the condition…

In quantum information theory the ability of Alice to instantaneously change Bob's quantum state (and hence measurement probabilities) is referred to as quantum steering. No inform…

They haven't uploaded to YouTube, but that's kind of the idea of this project: http://allthemusic.info/

Check out projectM, "an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop": https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Some other similar projects are Pythran, Transonic, and mypyc.

Bash function names also have a different namespace than Bash variables, so you can define a function and a shell variable with the same name. I used that in a script which defines…

Aaronson seems to be using the term Zen metaphorically, as a general path to some sort of "enlightenment" or "Zen state."

In the '90s McGehee claimed that he was being harassed in Herdon, Va. where he lived, in part due to his CIABASE database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McGehee#Controversies…