India is an aspirational society. To upwardly-mobile middle class families hotel lobbies represent everything they have always wanted: polish, signs of wealth, and obviously shine. I think what is tacky to you is how shiny the living room is and in your privileged world (and

"Oh my God, our chatbot might be sentient!" This coordinated Anthropic hype campaign appeared just before their funding round which - which earned them $30 billion in investment. The media and investors fell for it. This is planet stupid.

This is such a flawed study for so many reasons - one of which is that it uses the "Guilford Alternate Uses Task" to measure creativity. This is the test that asks you to "find new uses for a brick." You give the test to 4 year olds and they do better than 50yos and everyone

In the late 90s & early 00s, there was an active movement in Pune & Mumbai to stop immersing idols in rivers & the sea. There used to be special portable tanks along the Mula Mutha. Rise of Hindutva pretty much killed that movement. And now we are polluting Canadian rivers? Ugh

Fun Fact : Bhopal BRTS has been dismantled in 2024 - one of the reasons cited in upcoming metro which now has daily ridership of 200 What was the peak ridership of Bhopal BRTS? 1,50,000 Daily.

Calling it now. Mr. Beast is going into slop ed-tech with AI optimized "learning playlists". So much learning design is nudging in this direction. It's the illusion of learning and will be used to pacify low-income families. Rich kids will never be given this. They will be given

Holy shit this is bad. Pete Hegseth is basically threatening Anthropic - which he inked a deal with to implement AI in the Pentagon - because they won’t remove these two safeguards in their programming. 1. Prevention of AI-controlled weapons 2. Prevention of mass domestic

I have not been this scared for humanity in a long time. This is not a drill. The Anthropic - Department of War dispute may literally be life or death for all of us: open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus…

Anthropic's own researchers just proved that using AI to learn new skills makes you 17% worse at them. and the part nobody's reading is more important than the headline. the paper is called "How AI Impacts Skill Formation." randomized experiment. 52 professional developers.

it’s official - Anthropic just refused the Pentagon’s demands, dario’s statement is doesn’t fuck around: - “these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” - dario - he described the pentagons efforts to force him to enable

Stefan Bauschard says a heavily-funded private school called Alpha School is being praised as revolutionary for using teaching methods that high school debate programs have used for over 100 years—like coaching instead of lecturing, advancing based on skill not time, and making

Trump just banned Anthropic from the entire federal government. That's the headline. Here's what actually happened. Hegseth designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk," which means every contractor, supplier, and partner that does business with the U.S. military is now banned

Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.

> "AI is held to a standard we never applied to ourselves" Yes, the same way I expect a bus to be faster than me and a crane to lift things that I can never lift. If you build a thinking machine, I expect it to think better than me.

Groundwork for the next round of funding has started 😴 all aboard the hype train, shhh don't ask if it really has an engine🚆🚆

We’re spending $200B+ a year on data centers to power AI. One company raised $11M, grew human brain cells on a chip, and the cells taught themselves to play a 3D shooter in a week. Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons on a silicon chip and taught them to play Doom. The cells

Emotional suppression costs you about 30% of your working memory. Measured on fMRI. The anterior cingulate cortex processes emotional pain and cognitive control through overlapping circuits. When you shove emotions down instead of processing them, your prefrontal cortex burns

10% of ALL Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods. $16 BILLION a year. Zuckerberg has known about this for a long time. But he has *deliberately* decided to do nothing about it. Why is Mark Zuckerberg not in prison?

“Many Americans already take a dim view of A.I. and feel as if they are being frog-marched to a future that they neither asked for nor wanted. If A.I. robs some of them of their livelihoods, knocks them out of the middle class and thwarts the aspirations of their kids, wariness