hypo generation is cheap finding tests to distinguish hypos is real work developing taste to quickly estimate the probability of different ontological planks prior to testing requires dedicated cultivation

china hosts plays in the street where "evil" japanese beat up ordinary chinese people and it is so enraging to watch sometimes the audience rushes the stage if you were going to control information maybe don't keep the mob always on the edge

Turns out there's a faster way to board an aircraft! Someone should tag literally every airline and show them this. 📹: bad_science_jokes

6月11日，湖南一网友曝光：小区门禁也开始弄虚作假，刷“哈利波特的斯内普照片” 照样打开了小区大门

Stanford 还是太权威了。 以前看印度人教编程，30 分钟就有点腻。 这次看斯坦福的 AI 架构开放课程，竟然能一口气把一小时的内容完整看完，看得目不转睛。 我给 10 分里的 10 分。

My favorite such joke:

If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we *should* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

if most of gdp and market growth has been in the ai buildout and trump just killed global use of us frontier models we thinking bearish on monday or market doesn't care about anything

ソ連ファンクの中でも（蒐集する上で）最も危険な領域は、中央アジアとモンゴル。 規格外にプレス枚数が少ないので非常に入手は困難ですが、そのとりわけ奇天烈なサウンドは実に蠱惑的……ということで、タジキスタン・ストレンジ・ディスコをお聴きください。 #ソ連ファンク

van gogh painted an optical illusion and nobody noticed it before this 6 year old

I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China. I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses. So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Aschenbrenner's lines on a graph paper said that national control was inevitable and I guess here we are ahead of schedule Maybe you think this was a partisan action unique to a feud with Hegseth and Anthropic and it will all go back to normal soon but the other possibility is that this becomes a bipartisan consensus and Mythos 2 will be considered far too dangerous to allow anyone to sell

The Chinese coming to X to discuss the history of censorship, which they can't in their own country for obvious reasons, is a beautiful thing to witness

你们到底都是怎么解锁 VPN 这个技能的？ 没有 VPN 就没法翻墙， 不翻墙又没法下载 VPN。 这不就是互联网版“没有鸡就生不了蛋，没有蛋就生不了鸡”吗？ 这个死循环，你们是怎么破局的？

Jack Kerouac once said, "Anybody can make Paris holy, but I can make Topeka holy." but that was a long time ago and topeka has kinda gone downhill

An interesting detail of Moscow’s framing of EU sanctions is that they are described simultaneously asineffective, devastating to Europe, and desperately in need of removal.

RT @RichardHanania: When economists were asked if Americans would be better off with more low skilled immigrants being allowed to legally e…

stray thought i intermittently see claims that chinese conversion of commercial vessels to transports would allow easy strait transit because theyre big, and so hard to sink this seems like evidence against that theory because apparently theyre maybe also easy to disable

the aegeus myth is pretty heavy handed look kids you really need to let your parents know you're ok, even if you're off fighting monsters, or they might throw themselves into the ocean

Thread with excerpts from the pre-Columbian chapters of T. R. Fehrenbach's Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico (1973/1995). This is a very dense and detailed book; this thread is not even close to comprehensive.