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Of all the future Ai stuff I can imagine as extremely uncanny, having a machine that can just keep producing really funny text-based humor would be one of the uncanniest. Actual funny jokes are extremely rare and few people can create them.
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Also you can solve the halting problem by just checking the state at infinity. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof-7 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
I was listening to the original Muppet Movie soundtrack today as my daughter made a puppet in my office. Had an offhand thought about the post-Henson Muppets and why they often feel like they're missing something? I think a big part of it is the first movie is a kind of 70s style Variety Show?
Enjoying the best adaptation of The Odyssey, and by that I mean all the comics that @smbccomics.bsky.social made about it.
ReallySeamus@reallyseamus.bsky.social · 3d ago@zachweinersmith.bsky.social On vacation, 5 and 8 year olds were being obnoxious as we were losing the car, so 10 year old, unprompted, pulled out Bea Wolf and started reading it aloud, bellowing it until his brothers sat down and listened. I think I now understand the storytelling impulse better.
I have unironically gotten a "You are an expert" prompt from my boss after less than 6 months at an entry level engineering position.
favorite movie trivia: till the day he died, David Bowie never realized that The Labyrinth was a movie.
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Are there informal rules in film and TV for what accent a ghost can have? My impression is outside of comedy they have to have a standard accent, a country accent, or an old-fashioned accent of some kind. But you couldn’t have for example a modern New Yorker or Boston accent.
There's a lot in this thread & its multiple & various reply/quote offshoots that i disagree with, & am exhausted by, but i want to focus on 1 that i keep trying to press on: Let's stipulate LLMs *Can* do grad- & even expert-level math & we should prep for a revolution in the field… So what then?…
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoThere's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
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Watching my 12 year old choosing to read Bea Wolf without prompting today was really nice. Most encouraging me she told me favorite parts instead of "it's good, Dad."
The weird part is that they're in a Burger King. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/doc PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Verily and amen. Also, think tanks should consider hiring cartoonists.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoI think the right move, which I don't see enough of, is developing a synthetic philosophy of how to co-exist with all this, as humans have had to try do in past industrial revolutions. If I could convince a think tank to hire a cartoonist, I'd be doing it tomorrow instead of between projects.
Interestingly the best arguments (to me anyway) are around gambling legalization.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat's the argument against legalizing victimless crimes? I was reading Alvin Roth's book and (tw) he says in natural experiments the rate of sexual assault declines a LOT when sex work gets legalized. Seems the argument for drug legalization is pretty strong too? Would love to hear disagreement.
What's the argument against legalizing victimless crimes? I was reading Alvin Roth's book and (tw) he says in natural experiments the rate of sexual assault declines a LOT when sex work gets legalized. Seems the argument for drug legalization is pretty strong too? Would love to hear disagreement.
From Terry Tao’s ICM lecture. While there are additional arrows later that aren’t shown here, verification informs exposition. If an AI proof is autoformalized before it is understood and reworked by a human, the result will be more conceptually brittle even if evidently correct. /1
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
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Still waiting for a check on what they entered in Lean, but this looks like another bonkers ai math result. the-decoder.com/openai-annou... Claim is it cost 2k$ though the numbers sound a little hype-y, in that they don't say what they spent on stuff that didn't work. Still big.
OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions
OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days. CEO Sam Altman has already demoed Astra to policymakers in ...
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Test idea: AI generated meat product or Mid century American processed food
Do you think if we had eyes like herbivores there’d be more sports with multiple balls?
Daniel and Kelly chat with DKEU's audio engineer, Mat Keselman, about the physics of sound and give a behind the scenes look at how Mat works his magic. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Ironically less crazy than that thing SBF said to Tyler Cowen. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ev-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Need to remember that really stupid math jokes outperform my conventional humor.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d agoDoing some of my famous relatable humor
Yeesh. deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q... Wish we had more detail. On the other hand, on some deep level, on don't understand wanting to write novels with AI (if the goal is money, surely there are easier routes?) but I worry about people getting in trouble due to imperfect AI detectors.
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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