o3 presents things that are indistinguishable from thinking. does it think? if so, and if you assume it's not alive, inanimate things can think. is an ant colony (not the individual ants, the colony *itself*) alive? i'd say no but it def. appears to be able to think:

Many such cases

Life is a matryoshka doll of status games. At the center of this game, the most down-to-earth Sloanies are probably just roasting themselves

Yasheng Huang on the primacy of Chinese manufacturing: it's not the low labor cost or the IP theft (other countries have this). The consistency and high level of human capital (esp proactive investments in rural areas), high savings rate, government control of financial

I spoke at a high school yesterday and someone asked what I'd tell my 18 year old self if I could. It would be not to be tricked by prestige. It is at best a trailing indicator, and often simply wrong. Curiosity is a better guide.

Every ideology cherry picks aspects of Chinese development that they admire. With the left it’s subordination of the shareholder. With the right it’s no unions and nationalism. If there were still conservatives, they’d talk about party-enforced moral rectitude within corporations

“Yes my fellow American leftists, California is rightfully Mexican land, Blyat.”

If someone is telling you he understands AI, he doesn't understand AI.

Motivation as described by the IC: money ideology compromise ego

The non-nerds, how do they find meaning?

"I'm not confident that 10 x GBU-57 are enough. It might be many times higher."

If POTUS or Congress chooses to strike and it spirals, we’ll once again broadcast to the world how we organizationally, technically (SIGINT), and tactically fight. This all leads to weaker deterrence elsewhere.

If destroying Fordow requires a ground operation, then that is likely what will happen with direct or indirect U.S. support. Unfortunately this will incentivize quick and covert nuclear proliferation by other nation states.

Need to read more history

Told my brother and his friend Donald was going to go for it on this sunny Santa Monica morning. Now let's see the third and fourth order effects.

Marble hand before, during, and after. Understand how vital the craftsmen is in this age of robots.

no new gwot until you finish the gwot on your plate.

the best photo of a sprite I've ever seen