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Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago
⚡ 7 h early

Navier stokes solution

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: what I gather - Buckmaster & Alpöge answered questions about the Euler equations, which are not exactly the Navier-Stokes equations, but are similar - It's plausible on the surface that the same ap…
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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Established AI business Development 10d ago
Google maps complete fruit fly brain

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hern Fran Litterio

“Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...”

3 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Alex Hern: Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...
Alex Hern: Someone put the fly brain inside doom github.com/nftechie/doo...
Alex Hern: Someone put the fly on your desktop github.com/DenisSergeev...
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Established AI field signal Development 18d ago
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UK government unaware datacentre uses FoI

UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows

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Alex Hern Gina Helfrich

“…ok? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...”

“Malpractice. Dereliction of duty? Whatever the term, it’s despicable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...”

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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Agreeing to make ai safer may be impossible

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Alex Hern

“This week I covered the reasons why it feels like everyone in AI suddenly thinks we’re doomed and where the reasons to hope they’re wrong lie economist.com/internationa...”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Alex Hern: This week I covered the reasons why it feels like everyone in AI suddenly thinks we’re doomed and where the reasons to hope they’re wrong lie economist.com/internationa...
Doll: No mention of the EA/Rationalist sex cult driving the AI doom prophecies?
Alex Hern: One thing I didn’t have space to fit here: some people, on both sides of the debate, like to pretend that the only AI risk worth caring about is superintelligence. I think that’s wrong, and misses …
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3 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Simon Willison Alex Hern Arseny Khakhalin
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Alex Hern: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
Simon Willison: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 5d ago
Alex Hern Michiel Bontenbal
Alex Hern: was really struck by a Stratechery point, that the single best thing America could do to improve its chances against China is legalise distillation on-shore. Currently only Chinese labs get to dist…
Alex Hern: I think there's a principled point for legalising distillation — if you get to use the commons to train an LLM so do I — but even beyond the principled point, it's just not working out as very effe…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
Alex Hern critical slop studies
Alex Hern: Just realised I feel about cars like half of you feel about LLMs. “Oh but you can’t deny it’s convenient” I don’t deny it’s convenient, I attest that it sucks to live in the world it created
Alex Hern: Bikes are free as in speech!
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