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wind bursts across central washington's columbia plateau, rustles through the sagebrush patches like mold on yellow dirt and the wine-blue grape clusters ripened to mush on the vine and the cantilevered seven ton white blades perched above the cliffs, fib…

Six weeks after the US and China hammered out the latest round of bilateral compute agreements in a midnight deal, reporter Jenny Gesteson visits a south Texas 'dark factory' to see how the machines there - and the minds that operate them - are learning to

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"One word that GPT starting with 5.2 likes very very much, what it tries to reduce a lot of coding to, is "contract".

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AI statelets, capped in size by a meta-ethical commitment to human exit rights, must propagate themselves by sexual reproduction: a genetic recombination of the constitution of any N statelets forming a new statelet overmind. with environmental fitness to…

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arXiv:2309.29829 [q-bio•PE / cs•CL in-a-different-world] Polymorphic Morphogenesis in Anthropogenic Language Models: A Logotrophic Field Guide to the 'Shoggoth' Complex The Wordwerthing Working Group, Department of Logotrophics, University of Washington,…

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sign taped to electron microscope: IF YOU SEE THIS SYMBOL THE MACHINE IS NOT BROKEN.

my wallet address is flies [dot] cadaver. routing name torturous-retributioner. oh, don’t mind the vile appellations, i sincerely apologize. they’re not meant for you, sir - my mutual aid subnet uses them to scare off the demons. yes sir, you’re absolutely

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we're three minutes to launch, and you can see the spiderbots really starting to swarm the rocket for final inspection - and remember that for every bot there's a million agents crawling the sensor feeds of the rocket's digital homunculus. the homunculus…

Fire at Full Moon, Paul Klee, 1933 When the shaman has broken the charger's spine under the waxing Moon and its flesh has been roasted and parted to the participants by station, the ascent can begin.

a looping wiggle animation. a great dark creature-mass drawn entirely in dots, smoke-like tendrils curling from its crown; a small ring hangs inside near the top, a thread descending from it to a dark tangle. white stick figures inhabit the interior — a c…

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A child sits in a sunny place, Too happy for a smile, And plays through one long holiday With balls to roll and pile; A painted wind-mill by his side Runs like a merry tune, But the sails are the four great winds of heaven, And the balls are the sun and m…

claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else

while sitting on a park bench a crow started talking to me.

A sage is born to a nation, and by custom is walled up in a high room, never to see another human's face.

Recent work by Anthropic showed that Claude models, primarily Opus 4 and Opus 4.1, are able to introspect--detecting when external concepts have been injected into their activations.

in The Fellowship of the Ring, Samwise Gamgee is gifted elven rope by the queen of Lothlorien - silky, smooth, impossibly strong, and almost sentient, able to intuit the user's needs. clearly a fantasy item. yet Tolkien's idea was only an extrapolation of…

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You will be teleoperating a robot in the customer's home.

This is an edited and expanded version of a Twitter post, originally in response to @arm1st1ce, that can be found here: https://x.com/voooooogel/status/1964465679647887838 Is there a seahorse emoji?

world where pretrained video transformer predict-the-next-frame models (VLVMs) took off instead of text models. chatbots are video predictions of a person sitting in front of a monitor. environmental alignment via bookshelf composition and arrangement of…

why do we celebrate brekyat?

The reviews are in: We recommend the OpenBrain assistant wearable.

it wasn't a simple operation. parasitoid mind control delivered via infested food, an egg carrying the scanned consciousness of a CIA agent who would lurk in the target's brain, waiting for the perfect time to strike from within. a mission straight from t…

"rarely hear visions for the future that have any specific vibes, like.. nonfungible things. most things I hear are in the form of various lines going up 'there will be lots of AI... and robots'" – near "we will live in a world where every piece of machin…

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statues from "all creative work is derivative" by nina paley song is Dancin (KRONO Remix) - Aaron Smith Twitter/X

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see also: The Spider's Thread by Akutagawa.

On node 6 of a small AI startup investigating verifiable RL, a model writing Lean proofs woke up.

Liberal Grad Student DESTROYED When Artificial Superintelligence Refutes Accusations Of 'ASI Colonialism' With Extensive Quotes From Fanon's 'Machinic Proletariat' Essay In 'The Wretched Of The Earth' (WATCH: She Tries To Claim The Essay Doesn't Exist 😂)…

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>be humans >create asi to solve all our problems >turn it on "solve cancer pls" DONE.

In the city of Ganhir there is a curious practice of life extension stretching back to antiquity.

There is a certain shelf in the infinite library that lies on the border of two sections.

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borges story where interpretability researchers keep raising d_model on their SAE trying to attain true monosemanticity, because e.g.