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> The cost of generating the proofs for all 10 of these breakthroughs combined was under $2,000 at Sol API prices. https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2083470822258467194

> The incredible Yitan Zhang ( https://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty ) worked on proving this conjecture for 7 years. Moh, his advisor, wrote that Zhang "failed …

"Hey Leibniz, how do you live with yourself knowing that your binary system helped eventually replace human conversations?"

"I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in https://x.com/SebastianCaliri/status/2067452733356122303

"As Alexander predicted in 'AI 2027,' OpenAI did release a major new model in 2025; unlike in his forecast, it’s been a damp squib. Advances seem to be plateauing; the conversation…

The comparison isn't really like-for-like. NHTSA SGO AV reports can include very minor, low-speed contact events that would often never show up as police-reported crashes for human…

> The West is not complicit in the actions of the Iranian regime What about the 1953 CIA/MI6 coup that overthrew Iran's elected prime minister?

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"You only live once." Why state this as absolute fact? Seems a bit lacking in epistemic humility.

Here's the Grokipedia submission (currently censored / flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726459

Hypothetically, what if the AI-generated blog post were better than what the human author of the blog would have written?

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...

Current cope collection: - It's not a fair match, these models have more compute and memory than humans - Contestants weren't really elite, they're just college level programmers, …

An encyclopaedia is a lossy representation of reality.

Meanwhile this new paper claims that GPT-5 surpasses medical professionals in medical reasoning: "On MedXpertQA MM, GPT-5 improves reasoning and understanding scores by +29.62% and…

Yes, but the jump in performance from o3 is well beyond marginal while also fitting an exponential trend, which undermines the parent's claim on two counts.

>The actual benchmark improvements are marginal at best GPT-5 demonstrates exponential growth in task completion times: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com…

GPT-5 is #1 on WebDev Arena with +75 pts over Gemini 2.5 Pro and +100 pts over Claude Opus 4: https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard

Some previous predictions: In 2021 Paul Christiano wrote he would update from 30% to "50% chance of hard takeoff" if we saw an IMO gold by 2025. He thought there was an 8% chance o…

How do you explain Grok 4 achieving new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2, nearly doubling the previous commercial SOTA? https://x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555

"Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 with 15.9%." "This nearly doubles the previous commercial SOTA and tops the current Kaggle competition SOTA." https://x.com/arcpri…

Quoting Chollet: >I have repeatedly said that "can LLM reason?" was the wrong question to ask. Instead the right question is, "can they adapt to novelty?". https://x.com/fchollet/s…