No kidding. In his address to the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York he said that we just need a common enemy (outsider, if you will) to absolve our differences. Sounds dangerously like scapegoating to me. Then he said there are aliens already among us — those who … Continue reading Ronald Reagan Speech Suggests Aliens Among Us
Polymarket CEO tells insiders to leak. So cool, he said five months ago. Do it, for the market. …what’s cool about Polymarket is that it creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market and the market to change, and all of a sudden… Insider leak is the entire … Continue reading Designated Felon: How Polymarket CEO Stays Out of Jail
Dave Chappelle told the AP recently: One of the worst things that can happen to a comedian is becoming successful before they get good. Because you miss the part where you get to explore and make mistakes. A new paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl K. Miller explains why. Before … Continue reading Science: Control Damages Mental Accuracy, Especially Wealth
I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. So I pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the model is too dangerous to release. In fact, the 23MB of PDF I had to download was 20MB of … Continue reading The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic