As an American, I have to say that this stinks to high heaven of rigging.

Unfortunately, as a Palestinian i must support Belgium tonight

The thing to understand about California ballot initiatives is that they're frequently just proxy battles over tangentially related issues. It's a game of chicken where the goal is to advance your negotiating position, get what you want, and pull it before burning too much cash.

See this is why "safe bets" aren't the best idea

Weird headline - I am not sure solving 7 out of 10 novel very hard problems meant AI "did not live up to the task," when 15 months ago LLMs couldn't do math. But the actual study is interesting and illuminates flaws & successes of AIs in math. 1stproof.org/assets/docs/rep…

The real issue that most recruiters will never learn is that the subset of people whose resumes ostensibly meet every requirement contains all the BSers.

Precisely as I predicted, the recent cyber EO, which admin officials insisted was not a licensing regime, ends up in practice being a licensing regime. Forget “voluntary,” forget “permissionless.” AI is licensed now, but the requirements change constantly and are always a secret, even to the administration itself, which will discover the rules spontaneously in real time as it reacts to events. This means also that the rules are in practice stricter and more roughly enforced for organizations the administration does not like. Can you blame Anthropic for making itself so disliked? In a sense, sure. The problem is that this childish “he said, she said” is all we have to go on in our analysis of the situation. And because there is no transparency (it is all calls and texts between “White House officials” and “Anthropic executives”), in practice it comes down to who you trust more. This is why we create laws! To abstract away from personal power struggles and grudges, to submit to the steady application of rules so that complex human activity can unfold with predictability. The rule of law has been being eroded in the U.S. for my entire life, but it is especially acute in AI because of both the lack of much preexisting law to serve as bulwark, and because of this admin’s insistence that it is Not Regulating AI. This has become an excuse for vagueness and evasiveness in rule-drafting (see the cyber EO), and this in turn makes the lawlessness worse. The government wants to apply its force to frontier AI, that much is clear. It wants to make the industry submit. And in service of that goal, it has discovered that “not regulating AI” is in fact a great excuse for refusing to support laws that could constrain the admin’s exercise of power. In other words, “not regulating AI” is a *justification* for the tyrannical control of AI by the state. This should alarm you regardless of what party you are in. What you are seeing now will be used against you one day soon, if not by this admin then by its successors. This is the antithesis of the rule of law. The administration cannot and will not fix this problem alone. We need Congress to step in and impose rules on this mess.

This is a super interesting study! It appears that AIs pass on their “hereditary traits” to their children. I wonder what would happen when “child” models are distilled from two different “parent” AI models. Can models evolve more efficiently with some selective pressures?

A White Supremacist Colombian vs. a delusional Black conservative is as Florida Republican as a Republican primary can possibly be.

“It was, Marge, admit it”

So Iran is not handing over its uranium, is "promising" to not acquire a nuclear bomb, and is getting $25 billion in its assets unfrozen and the oil sanctions lifted. Why did we go to war again?

Yeah. Pretty much.

Public agencies, consultants, advocacy groups, teachers... they'd all benefit from having a digital library with explainer videos like this one. Any and every transportation topic.

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It is time for an insurgent right-wing party to finally challenge the Labour-Conservative-Reform-Restore uniparty