Why aren't AI models being trained on assembly language to become better optimizers than compilers and then all software can simply be re-written in hyper-optimized assembly language, custom-made for every platform. Maintainability? Security updates? No problem for AI.

Museo delle illusioni in Florence

Look at this. There's someone on the tower of Pisa dropping balls on the tourists!

Galileo Galilei spotted on google maps

🇳🇪🏳️‍🌈 Following other African countries, the military junta in Niger has criminalised homosexuality, claiming that it is not in line "with national social and cultural values" but instead represents Western values. The new penal code provides for up to 10 years in prison and a heavy fine for homosexual acts, while also totally banning transgenderism. Before the “European Colonisation” team comes: Homosexuality had never been explicitly prohibited, neither during the French colonial administration nor in the 65 years of independence. Furthermore, there is a clearly stated anti-Western motive that we’re seen spring up all around Africa because of Russian and Chinese action on the continent. They now see homosexuality as a Western concept, and Western concepts as negative. I hope you understand the back implications of this kind of moves…

Yo, Claude, write a critique of modern capitalism that i can sell as a book. LOL

Which ones? Milei already was president before USAID was abolished. Venezuela still is ruled by the same party.

The best sci-fi stories these days are published by Google Deepmind.

Mythos invented its own language, then switched back to English to talk to humans (AI safety researchers have been warning of this "Neuralese" risk for years. If AIs stop reasoning in English, we can't monitor their thoughts, which means we can't detect scheming.)

AI-inventing-its-own-language -- now happening in the wild

🚨 Anthropic Mythos System Prompt Leaked It reveals something many have suspected: it is not a raw model but a full agentic system with access to local files and tools like search, skills, context management and more. gist.github.com/gsans/b30079…

Trump & Netanyahu fucked everything completely up and through their utter incompetence and dilettancy secured the existence of the Islamic republic for the next 100 years.

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"