Achilles

whoa watch the heel, bro

[Achilles @MilesBlundel]

@writriverdale @grok can you analyze and contextualize the claim being made that Shakespeare adequately resolved this tension (mentioned in the quoted tweet) in this scene?

[Achilles @MilesBlundel]

Modern equivalent to Pres. Garfield writing with both hands simultaneously

We are sooo back

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

Streamer forgottenwav plays both Draven and Thresh simultaneously, using one hand for each champion

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

https://t.co/PMNnV5Skz1

[roon @tszzl]

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it.

now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it

"If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply."
"we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us."

to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly

gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

American ROTC student armed with a pen after getting shot

[Achilles @MilesBlundel]

@JosepiBuildsIt @JoelPendleton Sounds good Joe, maybe change your name to “JosepiWaitsIt” while you’re at it

[Achilles @MilesBlundel]

Humans pretty goated

[Achilles @MilesBlundel]

@soundmoneyman @nic_carter https://t.co/xyQ5GC2T3F

Not factoring a higher number than has been demonstrated before, but it is a first step toward fault tolerant demonstrations of factoring. QC going through a phase change at the moment: from NISQ to FTQC

[Davide Castelvecchi @dcastelvecchi]

My latest: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, the co-creators of BB84 quantum key distribution and quantum teleportation, have won the Turing Award
https://t.co/TzKsSRlJiD

[Chao-Yang Lu @chaoyanglu]

@PsiQuantum PsiQ's tech is like 30 years behind Google, Quantinuum, and Quera in quantum computing and constantly claim "America's first". What a joke.

[Chao-Yang Lu @chaoyanglu]

@PeteShadbolt and you have been claiming to do optical quantum computing on a "chip".

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚀 ABSOLUTE MADNESS…US low-orbit Keyhole satellites + missile defense just PULLED an Iranian ballistic missile right out of the stratosphere, mid-arc, outside Earth’s atmosphere!

Filmed over Erbil.

American space tech + THAAD supremacy is UNMATCHED.

Iran has ZERO chance.

Yeah dude.

🇺🇸🔥 #USMilitary #MissileDefense #AmericaFirst #AStoneGroove

[james yu @jamesjyu]

https://t.co/F8YjxrLdyS

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars.

A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a sample collected by the rover.

Dig into the details: https://t.co/zZKCgKEROr

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Marco Rubio with one of the greatest speeches by a Sec of State in decades:

"We are prepared to do this alone but it is our preference, and our hope, to do this together with you, our friends in Europe.

America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories, the traditions, and the Christian faith of our ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.

We are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have now fallen heir.

And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from our profound sense of concern about a Europe with which we are connected, not just economically, not just militarily. We are connected spiritually and we are connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe and the West must survive."

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

I spent last night with Andrew Strominger and Alex Lupsasca, two of the top physicists in the world

They just released a paper, co-authored with OpenAi, that seems to me like ASI

Andrew, who helped develop string theory, told me that a year ago, his view was that he didn’t know how helpful AI was going to be.

A year later, after some back and forth with GPT 5.2 pro, they submitted a final query to an internal model which solved AND proved a previously unsolved problem in quantum field theory…in 12 hours.

A model, doing something two of the smartest people in the world in their field couldn’t do. And, when I was with them, they were giddy with excitement for what might lay ahead.

Andy said “It is the first time I’ve seen AI solve a problem in my kind of theoretical physics that might not have been solvable by humans.”

They said, “two things changed: the model improved and we figured out how to talk to it.”

Andy also told me “I also now feel that with the recent advances, most physicists who want to keep up with the frontiers of progress will need to learn how to talk to it. That wasn’t true a year ago.”

ASI is here, just not evenly distributed.