Arthur B.

@Tezos co-founder w/ wife @breitwoman & Agitprop founder. Aligning ASI to not zap everyone is unsolved, that's bad. Tezos stuff, high context humor & more.

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@KMehrabi

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I bought my first Apple computer after being prejudiced against them for many years. I'm now postjudiced against them.

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As to the why:

a) you can't easily rent them on the cloud, the minimum time is a day, because Apple's license is fundamentally cloud hostile, so a Mac mini is cheaper to own pretty quickly

b) I have been benching a lot of stark proofs as part of the R&D effort to make Tezos quantum resistant, and the very high memory bandwidth of the M4 is really well suited for this

c) it's fun to build phone apps today now that you can whip them up in a day, and I wanted to share some with my friends on iOS, and Apple makes you buy Apple hardware if you ever want to do that

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@ccubetez I'm a Linux guy, I haven't used Windows on my machines much at all in well over 20 years!

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@lisperati Yes but I hear it's a pain.

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@chooserich @j0hnwang What can happen is that a lot of people who held Microstrategy stock and become disillusioned with it will not want to be bitcoin holders instead.

[パジョカ (Pajoca) @Pajoca_]

n=1159823 で初めて期待を裏切る

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

BREAKING NEWS: according to CloudFlare Radar Data, Agentic traffic has SURPASSED human traffic across the worldwide internet for HTML webpages.

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@ChainZenit @andy_l_jones Sure take 100 other (log) metrics, all flawed in their own way (flops spent training, metr task horizon, number of tokens inferred daily) take the first principal component, notice they all correlate strongly with it, notice it's taking off.

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@RichAyotte @BrianRoemmele @grok Costumes are off, crested hoplites helmets didn't come until 500 years after the Trojan war. And it's not like you can't have fun with achean helmets, they did put horns on them!

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Hunter's argument is misleading because it treats the current taboo as if it were based on the direct harm of the mildest racist acts. But the taboo is better understood as a response to the perceived tail of racial ideology. You can argue that this perception is overapplied or exaggerated, but you cannot explain the social norm without addressing it.

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A reminder that tomorrow is June 5th, the official day to protest the Jones Act.

https://t.co/49cDW4oDWk

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis have signed a joint open letter calling on Congress to mandate screening of synthetic nucleic acid orders, citing AI’s rapidly improving ability to assist with biological research as an urgent biosecurity risk.

[Camila Blank @camila_blank]

Subliminal learning is when LLMs transmit traits (e.g. loving cats) through seemingly meaningless data. What’s going on?

We find a simple explanation: it's just steering vector distillation.

We explain which traits transfer and why subliminal learning fails across models.

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ossia

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Approximate quadrature of the circle with straight edge and compass using 4 steps of Gauss-Legendre, relative error of 1.74 × 10⁻⁴¹.

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@IsaacKing314 @deltaVee42 Hear me out though,

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@IsaacKing314 @deltaVee42 I checked, it's 4 colorable and not 3 colorable. You do need a separate color for the ocean, though, since the ocean, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Germany form a K5.

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@garrytan I wrote a bit about this, which I call the "frayed edge", you might enjoy it.
https://t.co/fnKpUMPXbT