The prompt used in the paper 'People Cannot Distinguish GPT-4 from a Human in a Turing Test' is quite revealing about humans. tldr: "Be dumb"

Can AI help understand how the brain learns to see the world? Our latest study, led by Joséphine Raugel from FAIR at AI at Meta and École normale supérieure | PSL, is now out! 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18226 🧵 A thread:

A new etiquette and behavioral code is forming within Russian bureaucratic apparatus. The civilian power vertical is adopting military practices, leading to its degradation. ridl.io/barracks-manag…

Terrorist used to mean enemy militant whose motives are forbidden to discuss Now it just means political opponent

One problem is that the BSR not only approves applications slowly – it generally doesn’t approve them at all. In fact, the BSR rejects about 70% of applications. This is a staggering figure. The British planning system (itself not always a model of predictability!) rejects just

And so we arrive at the remarkable situation, where almost nothing is being built in London. Remember that London is a city where floorspace values are several times higher than they are in most of Britain – higher than they have been in almost any time or place in the history of

Those who know me well know I have a soft spot for gamifying my daily walks so I was particularly happy this week when my #STEPN #week1-minting during #STEPNEMBER4 returned a “Crypto Bro-kie” skin with 3 comfort gem slots 😁

Living systems exhibit complexity that far exceeds O(n!) combinatorial baselines. While the ordering of biological sequences certainly matters, the true complexity emerges from reciprocal feedback loops that dynamically create new entities and rules, compounding the system's

Discussing common knowledge with Bill Maher. Common knowledge is the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. stevenpinker.com/publications/w…

My exercise gamification distraction in action 😂 #STEPNEMBER4 #STEPNGEMS

Ah! You see, the story is almost too perfect. The man encounters her in the museum, in front of Rothko. And what is Rothko? A black void, a red abyss, the silent scream of modernity. It is a demand for stillness, for confrontation with nothingness. And what does he do? Instead of

Summary of the day's rollercoaster drama since Katherine has locked and it is hard for readers to piece together Preface: 3 days ago Katherine tweets photo in front of a rothko. The tweet goes micro-viral, leading to rothko and girl-in-front-of-object discourse—

BREAKING: They're scrubbing Banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

Perfect example of how a person can become trapped by their own narrative loop Read the whole thing and pay close attention to your own automatic thinking for clues that suggest what your own narrative loop might be Now rewind and re-frame accordingly and note your narratives😁

Today we see which Americans value the propagation of its culture wars over the propagation of its free speech ideals

Be Alex Krizhevsky. Born in the Soviet Union. Join Hinton’s lab. Create AlexNet. Train it on GPUs in your bedroom. Breaks every record. Spark the Deep Learning revolution. Get 181,495 citations. Disappear.

1/ A repatriated Korean worker from the Hyundai-LG battery factory secretly wrote a detention diary about their 7-day experience in ICE custody in Georgia. The worker says ICE officers mocked them with words like as "North Korea" and "Rocket Man" despite holding a business visa.

Loving the ecosystem-oriented approach laid down in this interview Also happens to fit perfectly with my own experience tracking the narrative loops and fractal behaviour patterns or companies and their ecosystems Will definitely be listing to this again for to capture more 😁