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I find it a real shame that botany doesn't receive a larger share of the curriculum in school. Plants are ubiquitous (obviously), they've been here well before we have and will rem…

> we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets. We’re much more interested in building innovative products and technologies that push the frontier. The veiled implication h…

In my view the best writing presents a portal to someone else's mind. LLMs do not have a mind. They can produce text and perhaps even 'weave a tapestry' of plot lines that make for…

Very neat! Love seeing immediately grok'able simulations like this that you can just browse to. There are a few neat black hole shaders[1][2] on Shadertoy as well. [1] https://www.…

One reason I switched to the cheapest notebooks and cheapest (reasonable) pens is a feeling that I was attempting to live a simulacrum of productivity bathed in nostalgia for an er…

> Hong Wang will become the third female mathematician in history to receive the Fields Medal Interestingly, if true, it will also be the first time an MIT PhD graduate has won the…

As I understand it many of the very wealthy do not "own" properties directly but control LLCs that do. The chain of trust/LLC ownership can be complex. Also as I understand it, thi…

All wildlife populations are in a severe decline [1][2]. More should be done about this, but I guess as a species we will have to learn the hard way. A small way to help is to repl…

Life on this planet will be OK. Throughout geologic time countless species have gone extinct. The Anthropocene might be tragic for the natural world but not terminal. But: what are…

> Anthropic has also been in ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. [...] We are ready to …

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The air in Manhattan got better because people rejected resignation and demanded that we must do better. By "scars" you mean the permanent destruction of coral reefs, old-growth fo…

This is all we've got. We need to do a better job of preserving it.

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Nature's finest achievement. A hyper-efficient "mind" built on a pyre of fossil fuels and rare minerals so it can help us burn the rest faster. Surely the Neanderthals stand enviou…

I love watching magpies. I have seen them tease cats by "foraging" just out of sprint and leap distance. They quickly fly up to a tree when the cat moves, always keeping an eye on …

Looking at the website of the organization [1] of the author, linked at the bottom of the submitted link, I get serious Time Cube [2] vibes. I'm both fascinated and worried about w…

Of course. But LLMs may subtract the need for top talent to be working on them.

So much of society's intellectual talent has been allocated toward software. Many of our smartest are working on ad-tech, surveillance, or squeezing as much attention out of our ne…

I am increasingly feeling okay with the idea of being left out . The worst parts of working professionally in a software development team have been amplified by LLMs. Ridiculously …

I think this is good to highlight for non-Scandinavians. Scandinavian countries are extremely open and transparent in a way that might be shocking for Americans. For example, in No…

I find this narrative in some corners of American politics fascinating because of how completely it misunderstands US power. Hegemony isn't charity. It's expensive. What the US gai…

Totally bizarre to watch the US transform from the endearingly crazy and rich friend to the one who holds you at gunpoint and robs you.