Renick Bell

@algorave @uiqorg @HalcyonVeil @saplingsrex @conditionalrecs @outlineslabel

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

This is NUTS. 🤯

Bryant Research surveyed how people feel about standard procedures that farm animals endure.

Red = "unacceptable"

Yet, despite 75-98% saying that the practices are unacceptable, over 90% of people buy #meat anyway. Why do you think this is? 🤔

[Mustafa @oprydai]

penrose tiling is what happens when math refuses to repeat.

normal tiles create patterns that repeat forever.
penrose tiles don’t.

they can cover an infinite plane,
but the pattern never becomes periodic.

why it matters:
• simple rules → complex structure emerges from just a few tile shapes
• no repetition → the pattern is ordered, but never boring
• local constraints → small placement rules create global structure
• hidden symmetry → not obvious repetition, but deep mathematical order
• quasicrystals → nature later showed similar non-repeating order in real materials

that’s the beautiful part.

penrose tiling is not chaos.
it is order without repetition.

a reminder that structure doesn’t always need symmetry,
and complexity doesn’t always need randomness.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

When you are talking to an LLM, you are speaking to a synthesized work of interactive fiction, not a real being.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

World models have existed for years (though not in LLMs); I take them to be explicit representation of objects, places, events, mechanisms etc you can reason over.

Chess computers have them (board, pieces, moves, history)

Nav systems have them (roads, times, etc)

Wikipedia has one of a sort (when people were born, where they died, etc)

They often work great (though again LLMs lack them).

But most are hand-engineered.

The trick is to acquire them from data.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

it’s truly astonishing to see the entire field move in the neurosymbolic and
world model directions I advocated in 2019 and 2020 and then simultaneously see people claim (invariably without specific evidence) that I am always wrong.

[Renick Bell @renick]

@trq212 @bcherny standard workflow

[Renick Bell @renick]

@matdryhurst I don't understand the consumption pattern. i have Instagram on constant mute. is a majority really listening like that?

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years.

"Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

[Renick Bell @renick]

i hate apps that link to my sim card. what kind of security theater is that?

[M.C. Escher @artistescher]

Concentric Rinds Colour #artbots #escher

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice. This is the most urgent plea I have ever written:

https://t.co/tzR9LliRQy

[Mark Rothko @artistrothko]

No. 7 #artbots #rothko

[Victor Vasarely @ArtistVasarely]

Meandres Belle-Isle https://t.co/F3H5hjWtnr

[M.C. Escher @artistescher]

Skull #artbots #escher

[Wylie Cable @WylieCable]

Interesting that my .WAV’s are valued at $151,000 USD per file yet Spotify does not send me $151,000 USD every time I upload a song… curious…

[Mark Rothko @artistrothko]

No.5/No.22 #artbots #rothko

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

バズった😆

[Plateau Militia Asian girl🌟 @CatiaKyen]

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is shaking things up again with a new messaging app called Bitchat.

What makes it interesting?

It works without mobile data or Wi-Fi.

Yes!

No internet at all ❌

Bitchat sends messages directly from phone to phone using nearby device connections. That means people can still communicate during internet shutdowns, network outages, emergencies, protests, or in areas with poor connectivity 🌍🔒

It is private, resilient, and independent of big networks or centralized systems.

Just another reminder that innovation isn’t always about faster internet. Sometimes it’s about removing the internet completely.

Technology keeps evolving. I love this one 👌🏾

[Holly Herndon @hollyherndon]

I wrote a song all by myself but want to pass it through a model trained on my own work as a production layer - it will have the same artifacts as any slop generated on suno

I generate a generic pop song on suno and get someone to re-record it

The first song will contain artifacts the second will not. Which song is more “human”?

[Victor Vasarely @ArtistVasarely]

Cheyt Pyr https://t.co/ziQJ8Q2Hb3