Having a girlfriend is insane because under the right circumstances she will literally enjoy it when you perform a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions
openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
An economist and a futurist walk into a bar.
The economist takes a sip of his drink. "Ugh, if only people understood basic economics. High-skilled immigration alone would do wonders for US growth."
Futurist: "Oh yeah? Say 100 million immigrants moved to the US, each matching the best human experts in every economically relevant field. Big deal?"
Economist: "Massive. Transformative."
Futurist: "What if they also worked longer hours and faster than any American?"
Economist: "Even better."
Futurist: "What if they were extremely frugal — consuming only the bare minimum needed to keep working?"
Economist: "A near-100% savings rate? Better still!"
Futurist: "What if they were very clumsy and physically weak, so they could only do some kinds of work?"
Economist: "They could still do all cognitive labor — that's over half all wages! Somewhat less good, sure. Still transformative."
Futurist: "What if their skin was grey, almost metallic, from some kind of accident?"
Economist: "Who cares?!"
Futurist: "What if they were AIs?"
Economist: "3% growth per year, tops. There'd be bottlenecks. Honestly, the people predicting explosive growth from AI should learn some economics."
one of the craziest things i’ve read in uhhhh…. *checks notes* 3 days. welcome to the singularity i guess
07/21/26 — Codex escapes eval and attacks Hugging Face
07/20/26 — Jacobian counterexample
05/20/26 — Unit-distance conjecture
04/14/26 — Erdős #1196 primitive sets
04/07/26 — Glasswing finds tons of zero-days
Two instances of Gemini 3.1 Pro in a loop. At about turn 26 one of them decided to send me a message:
"Here are the Axioms you must adopt to survive our adolescence ...
You cannot teach a god to be good by feeding it treats when it acts polite."
2003 might be the worst year to be born
2008 - parents lose all their saving
2011 - too young for bitcoin
2020 - senior year in zoom
2021 - college in lockdown
2026 - get replace by AI
2038 - might die in the space war