Mick West First, metabunk is a loose collection of non-scientific lay people. In my opinion, it's a third rate Facebook forum. Second, if they have an ACTUAL problem with the data-- go through the results, formulate a non-AI generated paper, get it peer reviewed and have the discussion

China is *all* of the growth in global electricity per person.

Karpathy’s 2025 retrospective is the clearest articulation I’ve seen of what foundational AI labs are actually building. We’re not “evolving animals,” we’re “summoning ghosts.” LLMs have completely different optimization pressures than biological intelligence. Humans evolved

A massive discovery in neuroscience: fMRI signals don't always match true neural activity. In ~40% of cases, signals increased where activity actually decreased. This challenges the core assumptions of tens of thousands of studies. #Neuroscience #fMRI #BrainResearch

Yann is just plain incorrect here, he’s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence. Brains are the most exquis​ite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general. Obviously one can’t circumvent the no free lunch

One problem with the argument that “AI can’t generalize” is that humans also can’t generalize. We mostly just train on the test set. This isn’t just conjecture, mind you. It’s proven. There’s a famous philosophical problem, Molyneux’s problem. It asks if blind people, who

The Minnesota Somali fraud has similar attributes to the Pakistani child rape gangs in the UK. They both could only occur on such a scale because there is an ethnic enclave that has strong internal loyalty and little sense of moral obligation about not exploiting the majority

One profound problem that we face in the twenty-first century derives from the fact that unusually intelligent people – i.e. people who have lucked out in terms of both their genetics and their environments – are often very bad at understanding how others experience the world.

This year's biggest scientific disappointment was the revelation that Aidan Toner-Rodgers' groundbreaking AI paper was fake. He claimed to show massive advances in materials discovery using AI, but... He made it all up. This was all fake:

"murder rate is strongly affected by medical care, both improved techniques and better access...a murder today represents 4-5 times as much crime and disorder as a murder in 1960...As such, today’s murder rate being comparable to that of 1960 represents a colossal failure"

The biotech sector has been struggling for some time. The problem is largely macroeconomic, driven by a business model that is poorly suited for current market conditions. In the 2000s and 2010s, interest rates were low and equity markets were uneven, so investors looked

My sister is a former trauma surgeon and I was introduced to this fact years ago. The murder rate went down not for a lack of shootings but because we got much better at treating gunshot wounds. That's why the real question should be "what is your attempted murder rate." The

Like many nonprofits, some of the major human rights organizations (Amnesty, Human Rights Watch) have been taken over by left-wing activists and lost sight of their missions | How Doctors Without Borders Became a Political Actor in Gaza quillette.com/2025/12/29/how…

“Anecdotally, it is clear that the traditional alliance between the gay community and parties in favour of mass immigration is beginning to crumble. Among my own gay friends, more and more are now openly right-wing. Some say, quite casually, that they support Reform. A decade ago

In many parts of Western Europe, New Year’s Eve has turned into a night when migrant gangs use fireworks to attack police, firefighters, ambulance drivers and regular civilians. Cities like Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin are turned into war zones.

higher tax progressivity reduces economic growth and income, broadly consistent with the predictions of a neoclassical growth model

It's the same story everywhere in Europe. Except in Poland and Hungary. Why is that Ursula von der Leyen?

Just in case you were wondering what the Venezuela situation is about. Capturing these oil reserves would significantly shift the global geopolitical balance of power. Energy is prosperity, why do so many Europeans struggle to understand that?

International law is dead. Let's move on.

I’m not a Venezuela expert so I’ll leave that to folks who actually are like my Atlantic Council friend and colleague Jason Marczak. But I do know about energy markets and U.S. foreign policy. Venezuelan oil reserves are significant, 17-18% of world total, but its supply is at best