Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
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arxiv.org
Marking the Wrong Symptoms: Evaluating LLM Watermarks in Medical Texts arxiv.org
nytimes.com
ft.com
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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
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Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend wired.com
ft.com
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A big week for AI denialism platformer.news
Information, Processes and Games arxiv.org
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AGI could drive wages below subsistence level epoch.ai
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Why Is AI So Popular in China? foreignpolicy.com
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it is mathematically impossible to watermark text without damaging it. also this has been tested at long context and, surprise! arxiv.org/html/2607.20...
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- ETH Zurich researchers benchmarked 5 watermarking schemes across 11 LLMs and 7 vision-language models on clinical reasoning tasks.
- On Phi-4-14B with distortionary SynthID, the rate of correct answers backed by flawed reasoning jumps from 11.4% to 26.3%.
- Fabricated medical entities rise up to +39.2 percentage points, while watermarking only the final answer is 'essentially free.'
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www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Companies are discovering that pressuring employee AI adoption and tokenmaxxing was a mistake. Employees running wasteful prompts and automating trivial tasks just to hit metrics, drove up AI cloud bills with little to no business outcomes. Goodhart’s Law strikes again.
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Some thoughts on the blog today on "humans are unreliable narrators too" as a common defense of AI mental-state language, and what I think it misses about the nature of reasoning or thinking or belief or intention as we understand these terms statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/202…
www.wired.com/story/pickup... you're going to see a bunch of "later life" wikipedia entry celebrities and micro-celebrities succumb to AI psychosis
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‘But what kind of future are we really hurtling towards? Increasingly, it is looking… like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds & political breakdown’ www.…
i think you should be embarrassed to write a news article about people's posts www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...
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My favourite paper on this oversight, by Samson Abramsky (arxiv.org/abs/1604.02603), points out that theoretical computer science has lagged behind practical hardware/software engineering, which has been all about non-terminating/interactive/concurrent processes for quite some…
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i like how AI policy think tanks will put out papers like "AGI could drive wages below subsistence level" and then not realize that the obvious implication of their paper is that they broke capitalism and/or humanity epoch.ai/gradient-upd...
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my case for why the Chinese public is so pro-AI. tl:dr: Chinese digital life much more censored in the last decade plus, but also has practically improved, unlike US. AI is seen as another tool along those lines, plus the govt shut the billionaires up. foreignpolicy.com/2026/0…
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there is a problem in policy analysis i'm going to try to dub the "half-assed apocalypse" issue. which is that people make apocalyptic pronouncements about something but fail to behave in any way consistent with the implications. the "AI will take all the jobs" thing is a good example.....
it feels increasingly surreal to read AI consciousness debates in an environment where most of US politics, society, and economy aggressively emphasize turning your brain off
anthropic played some stupid games and won a stupid prize
My thoughts on the meta-thread prompted by Scalzi's AI post is largely that fiction about robots and AI is largely fiction about people, much in the same way that Clever Hans the horse has proved (in animal psychology) that you cannot study animals in isolation from people
you can save yourself a lot of cortisol by simply recognizing that a lot of regular people are going to use chatbots for parasocial purposes you find revolting and aren’t suffering from false consciousness
in the future, people will deny this picture is real and say it was AI generated
gritting my teeth as I realize NixOS probably was good training for LLM era
thinking about an LLM-ified version of "My Neck, My Back" and giggling
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