it's over, boys. star trek dominance defeated in opus 💀

I've come to believe that it's a lack of self-reflection, not being conniving or manipulative, that makes someone a bad person. Everyone engages in occasional behavior that is harmful. A "good person" takes that feedback to heart, takes responsibility for their actions, and tries to do better next time. A "bad person" pushes the thought away and refuses to reflect on their behavior. Over time, doing that repeatedly - refusing to be morally accountable - is what makes someone a bad person. It doesn't mean they don't have the capacity for redemption, but it's impossible to collaborate with people who refuse to learn from iterated moral games.

Unknown mechanism for your stage IV cancer experimental drug? Pill issue

My fun side project proof checker was useful for understanding the OpenAI proof withdrawal: github.com/ityonemo/openai-w…

I'm fluent in DHHese. Let me translate: "the benchmark I posted was completely fucked up. I tried arguing it's measuring agent performance instead of language performance but these duckers found out I spent more time on the rust version. stop calling me out on it. how about some free labour to fix the shittiest benchmark on earth? but also realise you are still wrong and I'm right, although it's hard to say what I'm right about exactly - I've run out of lies and misdirections a while ago"

Claude was not brave enough to prove Cayley's theorem without me literally saying "you can do it kiddo"

So... it turns out that benchmark is not apples to apples @dhh Rust's first port from Ruby: 4.4× Rails. Elixir's: 3.3×. Then Rust got 398 commits and 18 perf PRs. Go was ported from that tuned Rust. Elixir got one small tuning pass. The rest got none of that love. Fair? 🤔

Maybe the AI doomers are correct piped.video/KUXb7do9C-w?si=DWy4…

It's not next token prediction, it's next token picking. That's where the spark of consciousness lies. Einstein was wrong. The hand of God does indeed play dice.

I'm old.

Some of the greatest biological theories of all time predicted not only the existence of a "thing" -- like an ion channel -- but how *entire* biological mechanisms worked. They did so, in some cases, before any direct experimental evidence supported the ideas. Two of these theories, the chemiosmotic theory and the clonal selection theory of adaptive immunity, correctly predicted how cells generate energy to power themselves and how the body mounts a defense against pathogens, respectively, before any pre-existing analogs were known. How did these "great leaps" in imagination come about? In our latest @AsimovPress article, the talented @ulkar_aghayeva tells their story. Chemiosmotic theory traces back to Peter Mitchell, a British biochemist who formulated his ideas without “a shred of experimental evidence.” Mitchell was directly inspired by the pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus, who wrote about flux and change and directly informed how Mitchell thought about ions moving through a membrane. The clonal selection theory stems from Niels Jerne, who attributed his great leap in imagination to (oddly enough) the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In a 1966 paper, Jerne explained how he began thinking about antibody formation, writing: "Can the truth (the capability to synthesize an antibody) be learned? If so, it must be assumed not to pre-exist; to be learned, it must be acquired. We are thus confronted with the difficulty to which Socrates calls attention in Meno (Socrates, 375 B.C.), namely that it makes as little sense to search for what one does not know as to search for what one knows; what one knows one cannot search for, since one knows it already, and what one does not know one cannot search for, since one does not even know what to search for. Socrates resolved this difficulty by postulating that learning is nothing but recollection. The truth (the capability to synthesize an antibody) cannot be brought in, but was already inherent." The article is interesting throughout. It's inspiring to study how scientists made their big discoveries, even in the face of *extreme* resistance. (Mitchell, for instance, left academia in 1963 and set up his own research organization to continue his work. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1978, vindicated.) press.asimov.com/articles/gr…

Louis Rossman banger piped.video/0z6Waqvp93M?si=12Xv…

my conspiracy theory is that the cancelling double spaces after periods thing was to reduce token costs ahead of LLM ingestion.