Popular news media completely avoiding the possibility that people will just be a noetic cloud floating in hyperspace before they finally understand true enlightenment is letting go of all attachments and liberate themselves from samsara
Barzin
@barzin.sanctus.ca
Iranian-Canadian dude who runs Sanctus.ca and tries to survive other human beings, bro what even is this planet. Works in AI and human biological rejuvenation. Refuses to consider LLMs conscious until they start demanding the Epstein files be released.
OpenAI: calls them agents even though it's just an LLM with web search Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle
a group of spongebob characters are standing around a table with the caption oh brother this guy stinks
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Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and abuser, a sweetheart deal. Epstein continued to abuse girls while in prison, after which Trump made Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
Facts confirmed as having a liberal bias
PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · last yr.Who actually commits political violence in the United States? Here’s what the data says
Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood: • How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/... • Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...
Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · last yr.Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Horace He (Thinking Machines' blog, an AI lab founded by Mira Murati) Connectionism will cover topics as varied as their research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here, they share what they are working on.
Hot damn it's happening
a man in a suit and tie says oh my god okay it 's happening ..
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mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · last yr.K-Dense: A multi agent that has made discoveries in human aging - Gemini-2.5-pro - 4 specialized sub-agents - discovery improved aging by 4.5 years - needs guidance by human researchers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Naive AI Alignment without reckoning for geopolitical subversion could potentially become a disastrous global cultural imposition. Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..
WEIRD in, WEIRD out - STRAT7
Why today’s AI thinks American - and why that’s a problem. This provocative read from STRAT7 explores how generative AI tools mirror a narrow slice of humanity - WEIRD cultures and what that means for...
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Kepler-138c and d are twice as heavy as the Earth but half our planet's density, meaning they are likely "water worlds": science.nasa.gov/universe/exo... They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.
First time using Copilot in Outlook to convert a Markdown response from Gemini into HTML in order to neatly insert it into an email, and, it's terrible. You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛
I can't believe how lucky I am, after it's all said and done, that Canada took me in. I hope to grow strong to defend this country and what it stands for, this place is as close to the promised land as I've ever seen if not it.
I keep forgetting Trump has a son - or more than one in fact - and still that hasn't stopped him from being this much of an asshole. Should be considered child abuse to be brutally honest.
On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth. Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model
Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...
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I never saw this coming: A Sysinternals tool, procdump, helping to improve the security of MacOS! www.macworld.com/article/2898...
Security expert details how a simple Microsoft tool led to the discovery of a serious macOS flaw
The hole was fixed by Apple in the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update.
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1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW. 2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW. 2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW. 2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.
Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
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I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real
gpt-5-codex is better, but only if you’re INSANELY specific in your prompts (maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)
Hey #Canada, anyone who's technically inclined and wants to start up a censorship-proof, fully decentralized social media network by and for Canadians, let me know and let's team up. More information about how it works in the link; setting up a Matrix server and outlining specs is next.
GitHub - BarzinL/North-Social: A decentralized, censorship-resistant social network protocol for Canada. Built on a peer-to-peer network of user-owned home servers, North Social prioritizes data sover...
A decentralized, censorship-resistant social network protocol for Canada. Built on a peer-to-peer network of user-owned home servers, North Social prioritizes data sovereignty, high performance, an...
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My biggest AI flex is that I have a codebase now that costs 176K tokens to get a typical SOTA model to get up to speed with how it works and what to do with it. Apparently this is about as many words as a full-length novel.
This one’s fun! CVE-2023-49565 The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint. The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment. CVSS 8.4
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How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes Here they detail some of the technical innovations that enabled us to generate viable bacteriophage genomes with substantial evolutionary novelty. arcinstitute.org/news/hie-kin...
How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes | Arc Institute
Going from designing individual genes to complete genomes is an incredibly challenging problem. We have previously shown that the genomic foundation models like the Evo series can generate single prot...
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My dad boycotted Papa John's until his dying breath because one of their drivers drove recklessly and nearly hit us kids in front of our house, and when he called the store to complain the manager laughed and hung up on him. I intend to carry on that legacy. Fuck Papa John and his shitty pizza.
Usually smells wafting in from my window are either somebody in this place smoking weed, or barbecue, or the smell of burning fall leaves; for some reason the scent coming through the window is... very distinctly... 90s fabric softener..
I see people are posting about yud's new book. I'm not gonna read it, but this other book seems promising
