Tested GLM-4.5 on this and it gave me the table below. Once your cells have accumulated ~thousands of somatic mutations from cell division copying errors you might be toast, regardless of how many situps or longevity cleanses you've done. AI: Convergent Total Mutations:

A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.

Is it time for regime change in Britain? UnHerd’s Florence Read sits down with senior editor @TomOugh and columnist @ArisRoussinos to unpack the emerging idea of Anglofuturism — a vision for rebooting Britain from decades of political, economic and cultural stagnation.

Some words (my last on this for a while, I suspect) on why Turing reform is a good idea but probably doomed, and how the Coalition messed up science and innovation policy.

Not enough people are aware that China is starting to eat our lunch on biotech innovation. Massive change in just the last decade:

I’m looking for the next generation of open science pioneers. Here are some examples just to get the juices flowing: - are you putting your reviewer energy into open constructive/critical discourse commenting on preprints, blogs, social media or other venues instead of at

Interesting update. This is a smart response imo, which calls DSIT’s bluff. EPSRC can (and absolutely should!) still act, but this response effectively bypasses them, inviting another bout of political pressure, with DSIT mettle to be tested via the partnership board offer.

We're hiring for someone to lead the AI policy team at CLTR (deadline 24th August) - I've had a few people ask me what this means for my role, and what we're looking for in this position, so I wrote up some of my thoughts (link below!)

Andrej Karpathy explains what makes Elon Musk unique “I don’t think people appreciate how unique [Elon’s style] is. You read about it, but you don’t understand it—it’s hard to describe.” The first principle Karpathy — who led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot — has

Closing soon! Abstract submission for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (Birmingham 3-5 November) A multidisciplinary meeting on the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanisti… Deadline: August 29 Pls share!

Excellent, angry post by Tim Leunig on Gatwick expansion (and by extension everything else) timleunig.substack.com/p/lgw

After reaching 5.3 million views, the BBC News (World) quietly deleted its report after discovering the Palestinian woman was actually a cancer patient.

Ken Macdonald KC, former Director of Public Prosecutions, and Tim Owen KC weigh in on the two recent Lucy Letby documentaries. "In my view the ITV one is infinitely better." "I totally agree". "Frankly I thought [Panorama] was poor, Tim. It was a poor documentary". 🧵(1/5)

“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”

"88 percent of the students [at NWU & U Mich) said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially." Such preference falsification (caused by fear of punishment for honesty) can lead to "pluralistic ignorance" or a "spiral of

As J.K. Rowling has said, “There's no point having ‘fuck you’ money if you aren't going to say ‘fuck you’.” Though many academics fondly conceive of themselves as modestly compensated, nice-guy underdogs, they have among the best, and certainly most secure, jobs in the world. That

For The Times and The Sunday Times Weekend Essay, Daniel Kodsi and I have written about the warping effects of academia's widespread indulgence of woke theorising -- taking in the efforts to sound the alarm on the part of Kathleen Stock, Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith, Jimmy Doyle. Many of academia's political

This is an excellent essay. The absurd thing about UK universities going woke is that they are persisting with DEI etc. even after it has become clear just how disastrous this has been for the American universities that led the way.