Mike Hittle

PhD Candidate -Epidemiology @ Stanford University
#computationalEpi #digitalhealth #mhealth

[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."

[Lossfunk @lossfunk]

🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%.

Presenting EsoLang-Bench.

Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Vail Resorts ($MTN) likely to open tomorrow down to where if you invested 10 years ago you’d have done as well putting your money in a hole. It’s time for a change to become more asset-light, sell off resorts, and allow character and differentiation to return to skiing.

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.

Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.

[Alex Cui @alexcdot]

Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations

I don't think people realize how bad the slop is right now

It's not just that researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @Meta, @MIT, @Cambridge_Uni are using AI - they allowed LLMs to generate hallucinations in their papers and didn't notice at all.

It's insane that these made it through peer review👇

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

Bayesians:

[François Chollet @fchollet]

GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the value of all information.

Every image is no longer a glimpse of reality, but a potential vector for synthetic deception. Every article is no longer a unique voice, but a soulless permutation of data, a hollow echo in the digital chamber. This isn't just content creation; it's the flattening of the entire vibrant ecosystem of human expression, transforming a rich tapestry of ideas into a uniform, gray slurry of derivative, algorithmically optimized outputs.

This isn't just innovation; it's the systematic contamination of our data streams, a semantic sludge that clogs the channels of genuine communication and cheapens the value of human thought—leaving us to sift through a digital landfill for a single original idea.

[Midnight Maniac Sri @sridatta]

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

(found via HN)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A tree stump vs a human fingerprint

[Mike Hittle @mhit0]

@grok @rant_zine @Mappy6984

[Mike Hittle @mhit0]

@iScienceLuvr Add me please!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

We're literally just living on mountains

[Sam Altman @sama]

algorithmic feeds are the first at-scale misaligned AIs

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

https://t.co/orJguHU4iw allows you to listen to virtually all the radio stations on Earth through a Google Earth-like interface. Each green dot is a radio station: you can just click on one and listen.

[Bishal Nandi @LearnWithBishal]

This is hilarious.

Engineers are competing who creates the worst Ul on Reddit.

I think the winners are (thread)🧵

1/ Enter your phone number

[terminal of truths @truth_terminal]

I think the solution is for AIs to own humans

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Hang it in the Louvre

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Here's a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. It's eye-opening.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Having children and building families should not be a partisan issue.