a scorn bro 🌹

I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!

[a scorn bro 🌹 @rob_strifeheart]

in any case, happy new year one and all

[Spectre @spectre0799]

2 Hard 4 The Radio but the beat is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

[derek davison @dwdavison]

"gorging on salmon" no that's what humans are doing you fucking freak, these things are filling their normal role in the ecosystem

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves.

And the way they proved it is devastating.

Apple researchers took the most popular math benchmark in AI — GSM8K, a set of grade-school math problems — and made one change. They swapped the numbers. Same problem. Same logic. Same steps. Different numbers.

Every model's performance dropped. Every single one. 25 state-of-the-art models tested.

But that wasn't the real experiment.

The real experiment broke everything.

They added one sentence to a math problem. One sentence that is completely irrelevant to the answer. It has nothing to do with the math. A human would read it and ignore it instantly.

Here's the actual example from the paper:

"Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?"

The correct answer is 190. The size of the kiwis has nothing to do with the count.

A 10-year-old would ignore "five of them were a bit smaller" because it's obviously irrelevant. It doesn't change how many kiwis there are.

But o1-mini, OpenAI's reasoning model, subtracted 5. It got 185.

Llama did the same thing. Subtracted 5. Got 185.

They didn't reason through the problem. They saw the number 5, saw a sentence that sounded like it mattered, and blindly turned it into a subtraction.

The models do not understand what subtraction means. They see a pattern that looks like subtraction and apply it. That is all.

Apple tested this across all models. They call the dataset "GSM-NoOp" — as in, the added clause is a no-operation. It does nothing. It changes nothing.

The results are catastrophic.

Phi-3-mini dropped over 65%. More than half of its "math ability" vanished from one irrelevant sentence.

GPT-4o dropped from 94.9% to 63.1%.

o1-mini dropped from 94.5% to 66.0%.

o1-preview, OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model at the time, dropped from 92.7% to 77.4%.

Even giving the models 8 examples of the exact same question beforehand, with the correct solution shown each time, barely helped. The models still fell for the irrelevant clause.

This means it's not a prompting problem. It's not a context problem. It's structural.

The Apple researchers also found that models convert words into math operations without understanding what those words mean. They see the word "discount" and multiply. They see a number near the word "smaller" and subtract. Regardless of whether it makes any sense.

The paper's exact words: "current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data."

And: "LLMs likely perform a form of probabilistic pattern-matching and searching to find closest seen data during training without proper understanding of concepts."

They also tested what happens when you increase the number of steps in a problem. Performance didn't just decrease. The rate of decrease accelerated. Adding two extra clauses to a problem dropped Gemma2-9b from 84.4% to 41.8%. Phi-3.5-mini from 87.6% to 44.8%. The more thinking required, the more the models collapse.

A real reasoner would slow down and work through it. These models don't slow down. They pattern-match. And when the pattern becomes complex enough, they crash.

This paper was published at ICLR 2025, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world.

You are using AI to help you make financial decisions. To check legal documents. To solve problems at work. To help your children with homework. And Apple just proved that the AI is not thinking about any of it. It is pattern matching. And the moment something unexpected shows up in your question, it breaks. It does not tell you it broke. It just quietly gives you the wrong answer with full confidence.

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

[Skyler Shuler @SkylerShuler]

This you?

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Yes, we can tell.

[Ali @haramcart]

Pete Hegseth is so spectacularly stupid that he used his insider knowledge of a strike on Iran to attempt a multimillion-dollar trade that LOST money

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Every day, Israel brings new horrors into this world

[Imogen Peach ♡ @NotoriousPeach]

really not helping the allegations that all this looksmaxxing shit is just сishet dude drag for this guy’s literal wig to get snatched

[Kyle Juszczyk @JuiceCheck44]

Best game of all time

[フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @NorthernIion_LP]

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

[gen z superboy (official) @shin_kale_rider]

I will vote for whichever candidate promises to have this guy executed live on television in 2028

[Goatstein @MandelaFace]

Based Freethinkers: I'm a conservative because it doesn't require you to affirm orthodoxy for career reasons.
President First Grader: i think america should have green land because it's big and things that are big are good
Based Freethinkers: It is yours by right, Your Grace.

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@JDVance Sorry but you were the only baby ever worth choosing crack over. Every time your mom neglected you was justified. Sorry. Amy Adams sucked in that movie too, sorry. Nothing you touch ever goes right. You should try some of Elon’s medicine sometime. Sorry.

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@JDVance Your life is an all-time justification of post-birth abortion.

Thanks for the invitation to criticize you and your fellow administration of Pedophile Rapists. What a sorry excuse for a father, husband, vice-president, Human, and Mammal.

Suck this country's collective dick.

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@JDVance mom should’ve just stuffed you with crack out the womb. see what happens. for science. maybe you’d end up with a functioning brain.

[connor @ConnorEatsPants]

@JDVance Log back in pussy. Keep tweeting. You’re not waking anyone up. We know Usha sleeps in the other room. My son played Roblox with your boys btw. Great kids. Usha did a good job keeping your influence out. Not hard though with how emotionally detached you are

[senator penny wrong @tomorrowsashes]

this post is a skeleton key for gaining an understanding of the mentality of the global right

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

*The obvious reason why this upsets people so much is probably that it does force a reframing of violence against kids.
"Well, who's doing all the child abuse, then?"
"Mostly parents and people who parents trust."
That's pretty upsetting if you've never thought about it before.