Darren Bell

cat lover, progressive, aspiring amateur biologist and Jungian

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

we all yearn for the surplus only cooperation brings

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

some more stuff that I can 'understand'

the main thing in this article is the voice and the conclusions

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops.

Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the answer more precise but takes exponentially more computation. Most calculations stop at two or three loops. Eight loops was the previous record in a simplified model physicists use as a testing ground (planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills), set by SLAC's Lance Dixon and collaborators.

Last month, physicist and science writer @4gravitons issued a challenge: could an AI push past eight loops in this model, using only the compute budget an academic could reasonably access?

Given a single prompt describing the nine-loop problem, Claude ran largely unsupervised for days in Claude Science and solved it using methods developed by Dixon and his colleagues, at a total cost of a few thousand dollars. Dixon independently verified the result, and von Hippel wrote about the experience for our blog.

Read more: https://t.co/CS2f2qoIhJ

[Rachel @tolstoybb]

I think everyone's pretty tired of information.

[Luke Bradley @lucasdrayton]

when you just want to be able to sell alcohol at your lesbian bar

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

@awaisaftab This is one of those statements that may make sense for the seriously ill, but not 'normies'?

my (Jungian) belief is most neurosis come from a lack of acceptance of the world

carving our own brain without acceptance of the world is something that is extremely dangerous

[hk @hassankhan]

Prime example of how people are proudly displaying violating norms of human trust with agents

[frankie @FrankieIsLost]

a world where everyone has a perfectly rational, tireless optimizer working on their behalf is much more adversarial than people realize. a lot of our existing infrastructure will not survive this transition.

[bald ann dowd @ali_sivi]

no i love how life is a series of situations that you're unequipped to handle until you've already handled them and the moment has passed. i think that's awesome

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

“i’ll be right back, artur. hang out with your gords.”

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

@phl43 something something no amount of thinking fast adds up to thinking slow

but uncontrarian, my favorite authors have liked tweets of mine. i can interact with scientists whose work i read . its insane and good in many ways.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
"ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

[𝓖 ⛲ @whistlingpetals]

"The Recognition of Ulysses and Telemachus" (also known as The Reunion of Odysseus and Telemachus), 1880 by Henri-Lucien Doucet

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

this was great

https://t.co/PsCmE8ooIq

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

nepotism is pretty close to a universal value

obviously.

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

there is a debate about sociologist about the heritable nature of culture

but every real culture, folks are doing everything they can to set their offspring up at the top

the idea of failsons is in the water right now because we’re all so rich

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.

Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.

“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.

“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.

It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: https://t.co/zHcKsPYfeC

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

shouldn’t have used the wormhole sentence. all my biographers shall omit it.

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

i don’t believe in archetypes per say, tho i believe in aspects of their behavior

emotions provide powerful frames. but it’s the egos job to decide on the frame.

the frames also have a bias towards their opposite. like a wormhole.

[Darren Bell @therealdarrent]

@mikeabrusci (it means they like you)

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

At some point the two factions that seem to have the most disdain towards traditional media -- various flavors of conservatives and tech industry people -- are going to realize that all the cultural developments they hate were germinated from and accelerated by social media.