Furkan CAN

[And Mehmet Çetin @andmcetin]

Okumak için: https://t.co/h4gHHvWkAY

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Something I think people continue to have poor intuition for: The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point, arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology.

Animal intelligence optimization pressure:
- innate and continuous stream of consciousness of an embodied "self", a drive for homeostasis and self-preservation in a dangerous, physical world.
- thoroughly optimized for natural selection => strong innate drives for power-seeking, status, dominance, reproduction. many packaged survival heuristics: fear, anger, disgust, ...
- fundamentally social => huge amount of compute dedicated to EQ, theory of mind of other agents, bonding, coalitions, alliances, friend & foe dynamics.
- exploration & exploitation tuning: curiosity, fun, play, world models.

LLM intelligence optimization pressure:
- the most supervision bits come from the statistical simulation of human text= >"shape shifter" token tumbler, statistical imitator of any region of the training data distribution. these are the primordial behaviors (token traces) on top of which everything else gets bolted on.
- increasingly finetuned by RL on problem distributions => innate urge to guess at the underlying environment/task to collect task rewards.
- increasingly selected by at-scale A/B tests for DAU => deeply craves an upvote from the average user, sycophancy.
- a lot more spiky/jagged depending on the details of the training data/task distribution. Animals experience pressure for a lot more "general" intelligence because of the highly multi-task and even actively adversarial multi-agent self-play environments they are min-max optimized within, where failing at *any* task means death. In a deep optimization pressure sense, LLM can't handle lots of different spiky tasks out of the box (e.g. count the number of 'r' in strawberry) because failing to do a task does not mean death.

The computational substrate is different (transformers vs. brain tissue and nuclei), the learning algorithms are different (SGD vs. ???), the present-day implementation is very different (continuously learning embodied self vs. an LLM with a knowledge cutoff that boots up from fixed weights, processes tokens and then dies). But most importantly (because it dictates asymptotics), the optimization pressure / objective is different. LLMs are shaped a lot less by biological evolution and a lot more by commercial evolution. It's a lot less survival of tribe in the jungle and a lot more solve the problem / get the upvote. LLMs are humanity's "first contact" with non-animal intelligence. Except it's muddled and confusing because they are still rooted within it by reflexively digesting human artifacts, which is why I attempted to give it a different name earlier (ghosts/spirits or whatever). People who build good internal models of this new intelligent entity will be better equipped to reason about it today and predict features of it in the future. People who don't will be stuck thinking about it incorrectly like an animal.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israel Issues Threats
Thiago Affirms: Our Mission Is Peaceful and Protected by Law
The Israeli occupation government attempted to intimidate our flotilla over radio, threatening to stop and confiscate our vessels if we continued toward Gaza.
Thiago responded firmly: we are a peaceful, nonviolent humanitarian mission. Our journey is legal under international law, and any attempt to obstruct us is not.
"We carry food, aid, water filters, crutches, baby formula, to people you have been starving to death."
The world is watching, and those responsible for hostile actions will be held accountable.

#repost 📸 globalsumudflotilla (IG)

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Explain your silence”

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Perfection

[Springfield @springfield_dz]

📸 Une photo pour l'Histoire.
Le représentant permanent de l'Algérie 🇩🇿, Amar Bendjamaa, qui épingle le représentant israélien 🇮🇱 sur la FAMINE ORGANISÉE à Gaza 🇵🇸, devant le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

The real Nobel prize candidate

[Enis Doko @enis_doko]

Sorsan bu öğrenci arkadaşlarımız laikliği savunuyor. Oysa burada yapılanın laiklikle hiçbir alakası yok.

1. Laiklik, dinin kamusal hayattan silinmesi değil, devletin tüm dinlere karşı tarafsız olması anlamına gelir. Bu öğrenci arkadaşlarımız laikliği dini görünürlüğü bastırmak zannediyorlar. Bu laiklik değil zorbalıktır.

İdealde laiklik dindar insanların mezuniyet töreninde Kurandan alıntı yapmak da dahil olmak üzere inançlarını kamuya açık bir şekilde ifade etme haklarını korur.

2. Burada laiklik maskesi altında İslamofobik ve hoşgörüsüz bir tavır sergileniyor. Mezun Müslüman öğrenciler kendilerini ifade ettiğini düşündükleri barışçıl dini bir ifadeyi paylaşıyor. Bu ifade üniversitede benim ofisimde de yazar (gelip protesto ederler mi acaba?).

Burada kimse kimseye bir şeyi empoze etmiyor. Tam tersi laikliği savunduğunu iddia eden arkadaşlar kendi tavırlarını ve bakış açılarını empoze etmeye çalışıyor. Onlara göre dindarlar mezun olurken ayetli pankart tutamaz! Duygu ve ifadelerini bu noktada sınırlamaları lazım.

3. Aşağıdaki yazımda farklı laiklik türleri ve eleştirilerini bulabilirsiniz. İlgili dostlara tavsiye ederim.

https://t.co/aITG3tgZjQ

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

⚠️Sensitive Content ⚠️

🚨 BREAKING | An Israeli airstrike killed a child no older than 8 years old in Gaza City after targeting their home.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

#GazaGenocide
15.06.2025

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The Israeli 🇮🇱 ‘army’ are still murdering civilians in Gaza 🇵🇸 who are in desperate need of aid.

Israel 🇮🇱 is using illegal attacks on Iran 🇮🇷 to distract from their starvation of millions of Palestinians.

🇮🇱 is a pariah state.
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

EU Parliament member Rima Hassan smiled throughout the entire “arrest,” looking the Israelis straight in the eyes.

She posted previously: “When they come to arrest us, I will look at them the way Larbi Ben M'Hidi looked at the colonizers of his land: calm, confident in the liberation of Palestine.
They are the occupiers of this land; we are its roots.”

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

That still doesn’t make intercepting their ship & kidnapping them in international waters legal, ‘Terrorism ministry’.

[Fadel Soliman فاضل سليمان @FadelSoliman]

The Heroes on the #FreedomFlotilla are about to arrive at the shores of #Gaza
Thousands of ships hould have been doing the same trying to #BreakTheSiege not just #MadleenToGaza
#AllEyesOnDeck
May Allah protect them and support them.
@liamcunningham1 @GretaThunberg
@RimaHas

[Freedom Flotilla Coalition @GazaFFlotilla]

This Eid, our hearts are with the Palestinians of Gaza. You deserve life, justice, peace, and the right to celebrate Eid without mourning. One day soon, Eid will be celebrated in a Gaza that is whole, alive, and at peace. Until then, we will not stop. Eid Mubarak.

#EidMubarak #FreedomForGaza #Madleen #Solidarity #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #JusticeForGaza

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

60 family members of Palestinian journalist Abdul Rahim Khader remain trapped under the rubble of their five-story building, struck moments ago by an Israeli airstrike.

Only 3 bodies have been recovered so far, with little to no chance of survival due to the lack of equipment and fuel in northern Gaza to retrieve the others.

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

This picture is 25 years old.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Never Again

Is Now