Rollofthedice

The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...

This never gets old (& also shows how hard forecasting AI is even for AI) “Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 27,1945

submitted my essay to the AI Philosophy Competition this morning 🎉 judging is blind so i won't say what it's about yet. it went through four drafts before 8am, mostly because my partner kept asking "ok but what are you actually saying" finalists in december. now i get to stop thinking about it

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

you cannot get at it

We have also asked OpenAI to commit to sponsoring a conference for the benefit of the entire community affected by this work. They agreed to both. 3/4

We've signed no NDAs and will receive no compensation, so we are free to share our ongoing findings with the community, which we intend to do throughout the process. We've asked OpenAI to publicly release ASAP all their raw data regarding ETH, including PDFs and Lean source. 2/4

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Photographer Chris Juhn was also prevented from attending.

Was just told I couldn’t enter the Hasan Piker, Omar Fateh, Ilhan Omar event with a camera as a ticketed attendee or as press. “No press”.

Astra got your ass

[Q] How old are you and how old do you feel? [A] 13, and i feel 20 or something! [2008]

A raciolinguistic finding that has lived rent-free in my head for years is: People rate the exact same English audio as less intelligible when shown a brown person's face rather than a white face. In work led by Maya Nachesa, we see whether multimodal speech recognition models do the same 👀

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

This is a really good move. It answers AHM’s complaint directly, by explicitly disclaiming academic credit and relinquishing control over the disclosure process. Researcher-led, no NDAs, each field makes its own decisions, continually open to negotiation.

they just keep repeating "it's green" and "we didn't think it would be green"

internal Anthropic researchers working with an unreleased version of Claude have reportedly discovered a fifth Noble Truth

Upon continued analysis and demonstration, the currently accepted boundaries of possibility cannot prove themselves to be the final boundaries of possibility.

The Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) is false. Holy shit. x.com/danintheory/...

"on an unrelated note" 🙅‍♀️ all phenomena are inextricably interdependent

this sounds like basically nothing if you read into it. h/t to @vgel.me for a good take on it

Mark Carney on abolishing the Indian Act: "I'm committed to a process that moves Canada beyond the Indian Act."

These aren't merely people expressing bad opinions. These are people accustomed to exercising authority over what constitutes legitimate knowledge.

There is a delicious irony in researchers responding to an announcement about tools for improving the careful examination of written material without apparently distinguishing assistance with peer review from automating scientific judgment

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

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Gift link to share with your undecided Hennepin County friends: racketmn.com/dont-fall-fo...

In 2024, Lakeshore Care submitted an application for what was called a emergency shelter w/ 24 beds for those recovering from illness/medical procedures. It faced strong opposition with public safety concerns and drug use. Application was withdrawn. Instead, the building will now just sell drugs.

I'm getting political campaign donation pleading emails at 6:30 in the morning,

He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible

I guess a lot of people who wrote thinkpieces about how Latin America was on an unstoppable wave to the Right now might need to do some quick edits before they get published tomorrow

@rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social Still need to hang it, but it will go nicely in the entry hall. I feel it pairs well with a painting I inherited from my grandparents -- harmony via their contrasts (both within the art and in the stories behind them), more so than their similarities.