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Potatoes are not a great food. Butter can be used to disguise this fact.

I’ve attended many events at Avalon. It’s a top-notch effort run by great people working on cool things. Well worth your support and, if you’re in SF, your participation!

Humanity has always been divided between the people who think there are demons in technics and the people who displace them.

Few demand a post-Christian West. Some claim we already live in one.

THE BERKELEY ALEMBIC EQUINOX PARTY by Stephen Pimentel 🫵you had to be there..

People getting sentimental about GPT-4o was not on my bingo card. Sam says “we’re listening!” but maybe the real lesson is “don't listen, users say crazy shit.”

What if ball lightning is a form of life?

“Admits” is one of those weasel words journalists use to make tacit accusations. If the subject of an article forthrightly states X, but the journalist states that the subject “admits” X, then you’re reading a hit piece.

Imagine being so vile as to find attractive Meghan Markle’s “lifestyle brand.”

Stephen Pimentel As to find attractive Meghan Markle, period!

Imagine not grasping that there are far more than 10,000 people who are just so vile.

The entire conspiracy theory around “What did Ilya see?” and Q* was stupid and deranged. It’s quite clear that Ilya didn’t see anything relating to AI capabilities. What he “saw” was mundane stuff about Sam Altman’s management style. The release of GPT-5, with its incremental

In Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2061: Odyssey Three, it is mentioned that a revolution has taken place in South Africa and the white population has fled, taking most of the country’s wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, *which they do in a matter

It turns out that “getting rid of the model picker” was not such a great design goal for OpenAI. Different use cases really do require different optimization targets.