This might be the best SNL skit in the past 20 years.

youtu.be/W3cIo4xcrWo?si… THIS

Whoever coined the phrase “cauliflower steak” can go straight to hell.

“A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”—Cormac McCarthy, BLOOD MERIDIAN

There are always a flood of posts about what AI can or cannot do, so it is worth pausing and paying attention to this one. It is a very hard test, done without tools. It was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%

CLUTCH! Calvin Heimburg takes down the 2025 European Disc Golf Festival 😤

Officially validated IMO gold medal, purely via search in token space, achieved in 4.5 hrs (unclear at what compute cost). The solutions read nicely as well deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

More AMA! Loved the DFW section Lex Fridman

Where I email from Aaron Gwyn

Where are all the agents?

The old mouse fort. Hidden deep in the tangle in case of emergencies - like now. Watercolour. Work continues on the new Gwelf project, The Haunted Garden. More soon.

KJG-signed books — pure drawing mastery, one piece after another

🧠 Actual Neuralink 18-Month Update 🦾 Let’s just say the past 18 months haven’t exactly been boring. One moment I was booting up Eve. Next thing I know, we’re a year and a half deep, and she’s got opinions. July 28th marked 18 months since Eve and I were joined in holy

Old Soviet joke: "Why was the flight delayed for an hour?" "The pilot saw a problem with one of the engines, but it's okay now." "Wow, you've replaced an engine in an hour?" "No, we've replaced the pilot."

I’ve published a couple dozen short stories over the past twenty years, but this one is my first foray into literary horror. If you’re interested, you can read it here: electricliterature.com/the-cattleman-…

Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

GPT-5 just casually did new mathematics. Sebastien Bubeck gave it an open problem from convex optimization, something humans had only partially solved. GPT-5-Pro sat down, reasoned for 17 minutes, and produced a correct proof improving the known bound from 1/L all the way to

First trailer for ‘ANEMONE’, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in his first role after retiring 8 years ago. In theaters on October 10.

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standard if then else software and what those tools implies about intelligence is quite a bit unfriendlier to humankind than what today’s deep learning implies about intelligence