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The arguably sketchy means used to get there —and the resulting side-effects— do not take away from the impressiveness of the emerging capabilities themselves. I agree about the un…

Fair. But that 1/10 continues to get more and more impressive. Say, Claude 7 creates a new, brilliant scientific idea every 1 out of 1000 times. Anthropic reports "Claude figured o…

"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to direct…

Imagine the AI's of the next century trying to explain incomprehensible dark matter math to the smartest humans of the time. David Deutsch says the human mind can comprehend _anyth…

I love this. This made me think that logging all legislation in a public VCS might be a very good way to leverage superintelligence while maintaining democracy. I want this for Ger…

I agree that these reports should be verifiable and provide more details about the method and how to protect your own network. Even more so if they want to be heard by serious secu…

The fact that certificate management is still evolving makes me realize how young the web still is in the big scheme of things.

The idea of a possible new AI winter to come seems less likely with each new announcement. Robust world models can be used as an effectively infinite source of training data.

> "non-copilot form factors that more directly extend the human mind." I think Cursor's tab completion and next edit prediction roughly fits the pattern, you don't chat, you don't …

I got Neuromancer as a birthday gift earlier this year. I found it simultaneously very captivating but requiring a lot of effort to read through the dense terminology and try to ac…

Webb was well worth the extended wait