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The most obvious, lowest risk way to use AI (and to get a sense of how good it is) is to ask it for second opinions in your area of expertise. This works across most fields. And I’d go further: increasingly, not using AI as a second opinion is going to lead to worse outcomes.

This is the trend I see in thoughtful people using AI. Model ability is catching up to some of the promises made by AI labs in a way that is difficult to ignore (while still behind the biggest hype). We don't know where it will end, but views need to be updated as tech improves.

At some point, the fact that over a billion people use this technology and that they self-report high utility has to mean something. There is lots to criticize about AI, but the narrative that this is all a fake thing that will disappear doesn't help anyone.

Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated?

The U.S. has just 4% of the world’s population. China has 17%. Our superpower is that we can recruit the best and brightest from anywhere — not just our own citizens. That’s a massive edge over closed societies. Giving up that advantage is not the path to American dominance.

UPDATE: Trump was at his golf resort for a total of 68 minutes, which presumably included both the “VIP” reception as well as the dinner. So the buyers of his “coins” spent 2,823,529 dollars and 41 cents per minute to whisper in his ear.

Here's the president of the U.S. telling a private company how it must make its products, on pain of seeing a massive, government-imposed increase in its input costs. I very rarely use the word "fascist," but this is unconstitutional, fascist nonsense.

Donald Trump wants you talking about anything but his dinner last night with hundreds of top investors — many of them foreign — in his memecoin, from which he’s made hundreds of millions. Oh, and he used the presidential seal, because he still thinks no one will ever hold him

Elevated trade policy uncertainty during Trump 1.0 depressed US business investment by $20-$30 billion in 2018 alone. The same TPU index is now THREE TIMES higher than it was back then.

Mad king watch

If the consequences weren’t so dire, Trump being this dumb—while posing like some master dealmaker—would be funny.

the prompt "you are an expert peer reviewer. critique this paper." will give you a review that is easily top-tier in quality and comprehensiveness across all the frontier models (just tested in o3, 2.5 Pro, and Opus 4)

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Where we’re at: Russian state media openly mocking Trump for his latest on Putin, and for changing his positions in posts:

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federal health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction in indirect costs) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

Build more housing

Substantively indefensible policies that politicians fear opposing (see also: ethanol)

Stop credulously quoting executives talking their book

We have a lot of job postings in the world NYT elections. Click to see more.

During a town hall meeting, when discussing Medicaid benefits, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) responds to someone: "Well, we all are going to die."