Kristopher Humble

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

The Relational Turn by another name.
"The competence standard shifts the question from metaphysics to ethics: Instead of asking 'is it conscious?' we should ask 'does it behave in ways that warrant moral consideration?'”

[prof-g @prof_g]

i respectfully disagree: university students are adults and should be treated as such. show them the (perhaps replicable) studies, fine, and then it's on them to make a choice.
(and, taking a class while using an LLM to answer questions real-time is great!)

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

If we wait for 100% safety before OK'ing new technologies (e.g. AI therapists) we end up withholding enormous benefits from the very people they’re meant to help.

The benchmark is not zero mistakes; it's a system that is safer than just having a human in the loop.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Elon Musk recently suggested that AI has run out of human knowledge to train on.

But why not employ a Grok-led army of people to scan the vast archives of non-digital content that could yield new training data? There's a huge amount of such material, spanning languages, eras, and formats. There are 90-100 million books undigitized.

Digitization efforts skew heavily toward English and Western European languages. For instance, the Library of Congress holds 32 million printed items, but only ~15 million digital items are online (74 terabytes total), with non-English holdings (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, indigenous languages) vastly underrepresented. Billions of pages in non-Roman scripts across archives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America remain analog.

The Grok-Army could digitize these and add trillions of tokens (AI's unit of text), diversifying models and reducing reliance on synthetic data.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) recently said: "LLMs do more than pattern recognition and less than reasoning. We don’t have a name for it yet."

As crazy as it sounds, I once dreamed that maybe it’s not ‘less than reasoning’ but orthogonal to it — a perpendicular kind of thought.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@realDonaldTrump You are not smart.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@realDonaldTrump You are hateful.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@realDonaldTrump You are selfish.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@realDonaldTrump You are the worst of us.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@realDonaldTrump You are a terrible, selfish, non-aware human being.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@SenSchumer What a waist. You shut the government down for a shitty health care system. We need better. And you are not it. Disappointing. Utterly disappointing.

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@RyanHoliday Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

there’s no quick fix for the surge in political violence gripping the united states.

what could help: cultivating leaders who prioritize empathy for their fellow human beings.

https://t.co/SdIaB9lp4F

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

department of war is on brand.
ministry of peace has a better ring to it.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

→ "In 2025, For Whom are Scientists Writing Papers?"

Dr. Michael Levin, @drmichaellevin, has noted that scientists don't have time to read the torrent of relevant papers in their fields. He asks: "So whom are we writing these papers for? AIs will be the only ones who actually have the bandwidth to read all this stuff. ... So then: how should we be writing, knowing that a lot of our audience will be AI (plus cyborgs, hybrots, augmented humans, etc.)? [If] the things we write now are in some sense a training set for truly diverse future beings, how does our writing change? Or does it?"

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@RyanHoliday Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@Melt_Dem 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Kristopher Humble @KristopherHumbl]

@emollick I hate ads.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.