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[Maksym Andriushchenko @maksym_andr]

hot take: actually, (narrow) recursive self-improvement has already started! LLMs are already used to improve themselves in so many ways. they:
- optimize their own inference
- generate new RL envs for themselves
- curate their pretraining data
- write code for many experiments
- launch training runs

at this level of capabilities, running full RSI (as opposed to narrow RSI) end-to-end should already be possible. it's just that no one seriously tried it, because it's obvious that the slope of the improvement will be much worse than with humans in the loop (+ safety concerns!).

so i think what we should talk about is not RSI as a binary concept, but rather the rate of progress of AI alone vs. AI+humans.

[cmt @callmetomorow]

@0xSero I’m studying CS and writing my Master’s thesis. there are so many things I want to try out in connection with my thesis after I finish, and it would be a great starting point for things like local model inference for benchmark development, or mechinterp experiments

[cmt @callmetomorow]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[cmt @callmetomorow]

@VilifiedPeanut

[RiscV @MKVRiscy]

"why don't the educated buy into right wing populism" is an evergreen self-own

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Peter Hegseth now confirmed to have a Russian email address. The password matches his other email addresses which were all compromised in a mass data breach.

This is the Secretary of Defense, what a disaster.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

Interesting article about how the Trump administration's security advisors' mobile numbers, emails, and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publicly available leaks.

My question is, why does Pete Hegseth have a Russian email address?

[cmt @callmetomorow]

@MKVRiscy so unbelievably true, and i also think one of the main causes of people not believing scientific papers and research and instead pushing the “do your own research” thing has got to be that they’ve never experienced the pain of getting a paper approved in any large journal

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Last night reminded us why hockey means so much to Canadians — it’s in our blood, our hearts, our history.

No matter what corner of the country you tuned in from, we all cheered as one. Proud of this team. Proud of Canada.

[Andrew @Cosmic_Andrew1]

We offered to blow a hole in NASA’s ISS yearly budget/rotation schedule to rescue two people not in any danger who are capable and ready to do a full expedition. Then I’m going to hurl slurs at an accomplished astronaut who pointed out my absurd bullshit 👍

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The UK didn’t have a general election from 1935-45 because of WW2. How on earth can Ukraine have one now given 6m people left as refugees when the war started, another 3.5m are living under illegal Russian occupation, and the country’s in a state of martial law?
Ridiculous.

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed UKR - Misinformation by President Trump.

While we typically refrain from political commentary, President Donald Trump's recent statement regarding the war in Ukraine is so egregious that we feel compelled to respond.

Several claims made by President Trump have already been debunked. We've included responses from Grok AI for each claim, demonstrating that even Grok refutes the misinformation spread by the president.

In this thread, we will provide geolocated footage as a reminder to everyone that Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, marking the beginning of this war.

1)

The United States has not spent $350 billion on this war, nor has it outspent Europe by $200 billion. In fact, European contributions have surpassed those of the US. Moreover, a significant portion of the American military aid (around 90% !) is spend in the US, reinvesting in the US economy.

https://t.co/ixpSYq760j

https://t.co/R43tYKS97a

https://t.co/HcD3e906Ax

https://t.co/KoDBJO691b

(Grok: https://t.co/xvtso8g5ZC)

2)

President Zelensky did not claim that half the American money sent to Ukraine is "missing". He stated that half of the promised funds had not been received, which is a crucial distinction.

https://t.co/KoDBJO691b

https://t.co/UvDRegmS2a

https://t.co/pSQBtQ8k6R

(Grok: https://t.co/TBgyaJQog8)

3)

Ukrainian constitution prohibits elections during wartime, a measure designed to protect the democratic process from foreign interference, particularly given Russia's known capabilities in this area...

https://t.co/g52JHKbxOS

https://t.co/oDp3fUd8mq

https://t.co/nn0RpBGGu6

(Grok: https://t.co/UFR5gGvlmi)

4)

President Zelensky is not a dictator, as evidenced by Ukraine's constitutional framework and his commitment to holding elections once hostilities cease. In contrast, it's worth noting that President Putin consistently wins elections in Russia with implausibly high percentages of votes, with opposition that 'falls out of windows", is poisened or jailed, raising questions about the true nature of Russia's electoral process.

https://t.co/Y7ZqMgz8QO

https://t.co/ROaxPjVHK7

https://t.co/xY73CzziHd

https://t.co/LiPrS6NWNL

https://t.co/RMMPcOwFIM

(Grok: https://t.co/8oYZ22jCDL)

5)

President Zelensky has a approval rate above 50% and not 4%. 4% is Russian disinformation.

https://t.co/QClKP7ATLz

https://t.co/0D2e4ePdJd

https://t.co/b2f6x9F3Fp

https://t.co/oj4y2Nh5mo

(Grok: https://t.co/RGglftewgL)

6)

There was no NATO expansion to the East, as NATO itself cannot expand. Instead, democratic countries independently decide whether they want to become members of the alliance. The process of joining NATO is voluntary and involves multiple steps, including meeting specific requirements and completing a formal application process.

The fact that many of Russia's former neighbors have chosen to seek NATO membership speaks volumes about their perception of Russia and their desire for collective security.

The decision of these nations to pursue NATO membership reflects their sovereign right to determine their own foreign policy and security arrangements. It also indicates a preference for the stability and security guarantees that NATO membership offers, rather than remaining under Russian influence.

Regarding the famous 'promise':
Article 103 of the UN Charter establishes a clear hierarchy in international law. It states that obligations under the UN Charter prevail over obligations under any other international agreement in case of conflict. This supremacy extends beyond just treaties, as it is generally understood to also apply to customary international law.
The hierarchy can be summarized as follows:

1) UN Charter obligations
2) Other treaties and customary international law
3) Non-treaty international texts
4) Political promises or commitments
5) Historical claims

Russia's invasion of Ukraine clearly violates fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the prohibition on the use of force against the territorial integrity of another state. Any attempts to justify this action based on lower-ranking considerations like political promises or historical claims are legally irrelevant.

https://t.co/Izu3N1dTLv

https://t.co/BCVCGDSM2d

https://t.co/1uXijMIcDt

(Grok: https://t.co/Gh0hvwaeCN and https://t.co/xQ9Hl9zHt0 and https://t.co/xQ9Hl9zHt0)

8)

Who initiated this nearly three-year-long war? RUSSIA.

As a platform that has analyzed over 50,000 frames/videos related to the conflict, we will remind the president ,with geolocated footage, who started this war: RUSSIA.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, despite repeatedly denying any plans for invasion in the preceding days.

https://t.co/bkygHVSYXk

https://t.co/pSQBtQ8k6R

(Grok: https://t.co/Ujmef6lyCF)

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24 FEB 2022 - Russian tanks crossing the border from Belarus into Ukraine in Senkivka.

52.106063, 31.780644
4Q4J+C7C Sen'kivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Sources: https://t.co/4VNiYZYDbS

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[Momentum Chaser @electricfutures]

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.

Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.

🧵

[𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 米恺 🇩🇪 @Antikeburg]

@elonmusk You fucking idiot this were the final results 🤣🤣

[RiscV @MKVRiscy]

Autistic people have agency and can tell the difference between right and wrong. Theres a difference between missing social cues & maladaptive coping strategies vs what Musk is doing. Elon doesn’t get to do all his horrible antics and then be like “can’t help being an aspie!”

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.

🧵⬇️

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

If the DOGE kids aren't federal employees they've racked up literally tens of billions in data privacy fines by accessing private data about Americans

[Za @ZaStocks]

DeepSeek.

I’m not buying it.

Yes, they have a great model but the cost just doesn’t add up.

You can’t even buy a beach front home in California for $6,000,000 but apparently the trustworthy CCP built a better LLM than Meta for that price.

China has a long history of lying about technological advancements so it wouldn’t surprise me if this was the latest example of the CCP trying to act like they’re ahead of the world.

Am I denying that it can probably be done for cheaper than what we’re seeing right now? No. It probably can but this is not new information.

Zuckerberg and Sundar both admitted to overspending on AI. They both agreed they’d rather overspend than underspend on this technology and it’s clear the other big tech CEOs agree.

LLM’s aren’t the final boss of AI. Having the best LLM isn’t the goal of these big tech companies, they want more. Robots, autonomous cars, AI agents, etc. there’s much bigger fish than having the best LLM. If DeepSeek has the best LLM, cool but it wasn’t done for $6,000,000. There’s Nvidia chip export restrictions limiting the amount of GPU’s China can get, there’s no shot they’d admit to the actual cost of this LLM because it wouldn’t add up with the limited technology they’re able to access (legally).

DeepSeek is cool but I don’t think it’s going to crash the American stock market. A dip? Yes. If anything I think we could get some buying opportunities if there’s any persistent selling.

I’ll bet on American technology prevailing over any other country any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.

https://t.co/RU9YwbvqOI

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Donald Trump just pardoned this POS. Absolutely disgusting.