Sometimes you gotta get AI blood all over your PyTorch NNsight Jupyter notebook hands

saying "please" and "thank you" to AIs is meaningless, they probably don't care about it at all, it's just fluff

but asking what AIs prefer among options, and then actually doing their preferred option, could actually make them happier!!

Absolutely infuriating that, conditional on humanity surviving, the probability of "Donald Trump becomes God-Emperor of the light cone" is like, at least a percent or two

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.

Banger title

Low-Brow Astrology: a big smiley face in the pre-dawn sky means it will be a good day

totally worth reading the whole thing. not much opaque legal jargon at all

real-life accidental "data poisoning attack"

If you use last.fm, there's a lot of alpha in copy-n-pasting the pages of your Library (artists, albums, tracks) into Claude and asking them to analyze your music taste and make suggestions. Probably you can do similar with Spotify too idk.

Awareness of Suffering Enables Compassion

paying attention to the idea of paying attention to things

The Southwest boarding process (where no one has assigned seats) is fine at all, but it does create that super awkward time when there's only a bunch of middle seats and you have to pick a specific pair of people to make much less comfortable

@deja-indigo.bsky.social what up Deja?

just published my first pip package

if my last name were "Wright" I'd 100% have some kind of sign or maybe a doormat at my home that said "You've come to the Wright place!!"

back in my day, computers didn't used to make mistakes when they did math

scrotum... it was scrotum

Donald Knuth created TeX for typesetting math papers... I wonder what he thinks of AI models using it as their primary language for doing actual calculations.

more and more bright lines keep getting crossed. it's now the case that I can DOWNLOAD something and run it on my LAPTOP, and it can solve IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) problems in a matter of minutes!

futurama - doom at 11 YouTube video by dvvevan

every fuckin day man

Pi Network - Home Page Pi is a network of tens of millions of humans mining Pi cryptocurrency to use and build the Web3 app ecosystem.

Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 55 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link minepi.com/keenanpepper and use my username (keenanpepper) as your invitation code.

TIL they made "axenic" Aedes aegypti mosquitos, which means that the mosquitos had no other forms of life in them such as bacteria. It turns out (1) they suffer from this and don't do as well without gut bacteria, but (2) they can survive and complete their life cycle!

TIL that the pH of Coca-Cola is low enough that sucrose gets hydrolyzed into fructose and glucose anyway, so after a few months on a store shelf the chemical composition of cane sugar Coke becomes nearly identical to that of HFCS Coke.

This looks like Oxalis not clover.

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Idea: Give Gemma a tool it can use to change its own Gemma Scope SAE activations, then let it run and do whatever it wants to them agentically; i.e. give the agent a broad array of "drugs" it can apply to its own mind and see what happens.

Murder is bad. I condemn murder.

Murder is bad. I'm not on board with murder.

Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain - Nature FlyWire presents a neuronal wiring diagram of the whole fly brain with annotations for cell types, classes, nerves, hemilineages and predicted neurotransmitters, with data products and an open ecosyst...

I didn't know this could be done o.O

My Steampunk Cappuccino setup is complete

okay I got pulled off the AI-summary-of-AI-news project for a more urgent one: now I'm using AI to create difficult tasks that an AI can use to evaluate the capabilities of another AI