Paul Sztorc It'll take a while to put a proper version onto my web site, but I've made a quick-and-dirty pdf (no links etc): daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

One of my favorite things is taking AI skeptics and confronting them information they can't easily ignore -- e.g., here are more thoughtful comments on your paper, which you care about, than many of your colleagues/editors/reviewers gave you.

Louis Theroux: Into the Lee-o-Sphere. Britain’s alternative comedy alpha-dog, sometime “Man-Wulf”, king of ironic hauteur, the man who was once “officially” ranked the 41st funniest stand-up EVER…. Stewart Lee! joins the LTP for a conversation about edgy “Netflix comedians”,

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database

In case it wasn’t clear: don’t install Openclaw on your personal account. It is cool experimental software without a sound security model and should run on its own dedicated computer. Don’t give it access to your email, wallet, messages or passwords

I agree with everything in this article. The cuts to particle, nuclear and astro physics research in the UK will be devastating, not only to the fields themselves but also to universities more widely and, in the longer term, to industry and therefore the economy as a whole. They

Cognitive surrender in the context of AI is tricky and fascinating IMO. For instance, when I first started using it I was outsourcing too much of my thinking to the system. I very soon realized that and cut back on things like wholesale draft creation. But what is fascinating

A cult leader sows the seeds of spiritual authoritarianism as he seeks additional marks to fleece.

“…theoretical physics grants will be almost 70 per cent lower from October 2026” These are catastrophic cuts that will end the careers of many UK researchers and dismantle theory groups in several UK Universities researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

Grant: “everyone deserves at some point in their life to enjoy learning about the complex logarithm.” I couldn’t have said it better myself! If you don’t already love Grant Sanderson (who the heck are you??), you will now. This is simply masterful! youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

Every time you load a page, your data travels through physical infrastructure - cables under oceans, satellites overhead, fiber under cities. Most people never think about. That's why I decided to map it. This is Project Backbone. It's free, interactive, and live.

My mentor Freeman Dyson once wrote a great piece titled "In Praise of Amateurs" in which he described how amateur scientists largely operating outside institutional constraints made important discoveries. His favorite example was Bernhard Schmidt, a one-Estonian optician (he had

The standard view of writing with AI is that it quickly produces bad writing, but the way I use it – extensively asking for feedback – the opposite is true: my writing gets better but slower

I think it's worth pointing out in this era of Big Data and AI that Johann Balmer came up with the Balmer formula that led to Niels Bohr's revolutionary model of the atom by fitting only *eleven* data points on spectral lines acquired by Anders Jonas Ångström. As Rutherford

So let me see if I can explain my skepticism here, in a way that refrains from commenting (much) on the political factors at play here, and sticks to the physics. This will be a bit of a long thread. 1/

It’s not remembering, at all. To frame it this way only makes it more difficult to notice as the expectation of memory’s involvement can only result in distraction. This is how the folk theories of enlightenment can only prevent enlightenment.

Still surprises me how many people don’t know what happened with radiologists and AI

1.5k likes on this completely 100% fake story CNN's reporting on. The paper hasn't even been peer reviewed yet.

If you have a basic understanding of physics you’d immediately question this. Do you know what insane temperature the data centre would need to generate to warm the land by 1 degree multiple miles away? Let alone 16 degrees? Nobody at cnn did think something is off here?