This is the biggest risk we face right now:

This is beneath the dignity of this country.

Very, very bad to behave this way...

I worked at BLS before grad school, as a computer programmer. It is and has always been a serious, professional, nonpartisan agency. When you shoot those who bring news you don't want to hear, you set your team up for structural stupidity. No feedback from reality.

We are instituting structural stupidity as our over arching national policy.

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“How far can we go? That’s an open scientific question.” Arc CTO Dave Burke talks virtual cells with Freethink.

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How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what we got? How many times do you have to see a model benchmaxxing to realize Humanity's Last Exam is a freaking idiotic name and that answering questions on it

This feels undeniably true. As a product, ChatGPT got far worse for me as a Plus user even though the GPT5 model is “better” than what I had access to before.

I really want the ability to disable the model router in ChatGPT and only use reasoning/thinking tools. o3 was my daily driver with o4 being the backup if I hit the message limit. The GPT-5 update greatly reduced the access to reasoning tools, which were the only tools that

The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and it might even switch within a single conversation.

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE A new collection of 16 essays on how to accelerate AI for science & security: ifp.org/launch The AI revolution is already delivering enormous consumer benefits. But AI progress won't automatically solve humanity's most important problems first. To

Irrationally excited for this book.

I lived in DC for 13 years, love DC, think the weird fearmongering about DC is fucked up, but agree with Josh Barro that there has to be a way for liberals to talk about crime, and one way is to note that the feds are sending troops to the Georgetown Barnes and Noble and ignoring

.Casey Handmer on how to feed the AIs. 0:00:00 – Why doesn’t China win by default 0:08:28 – Why hyperscalers choose natural gas over solar 0:18:01 – Solar's astonishing learning rates 0:27:02 – How to build 50,000 acre solar-powered data centers 0:40:24 – Environmental regulations

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Imagine wanting to cut NASA science when we have incredible tools like this that make a direct impact in our daily lives and help shape our understanding of the planet we live on.

How much of an impact is this actually going to have on the amount of solar that’s being built?

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