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7373737373on AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude

I agree, LLMs in general tend to misuse words and concepts like "proof" - when they have only partially or sloppily carried out an (heuristic) argument, or in situations where a proof is not possible at all, only empirical evidence. This has improved with recent models but has not been entirely solved

7373737373on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

It's at least vast criminal negligence then. At a billion dollar scale you can't just say "oopsie", profit at that scale comes with a supervisory and controlling responsibility. It's not like they wouldn't analyze where their money is coming from, what specifically is profitable

7373737373on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

And Amazon is selling returned items as new without inspecting them. Causing customers to get scammed in turn when Amazon is with fake returns.

7373737373on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

Same on Google and Youtube. The CEOs and controlling shareholders should be sent straight to jail. Deliberate profiteering from crime!

7373737373on Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

I heartily recommend "Tim's Vermeer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY

7373737373on RepRapMicron

Sam Zeloof also created his own transistors, then founded AtomicSemi/fab2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

inspired by Jeri Ellsworth, who also documented hers on Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DCEA197C1C07A2D

7373737373on RepRapMicron

Just need a garden shed: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HfSO-LCKmrA

7373737373on Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There

Would that not also imply that improvements in ease of access to space, increase of energy production and -price reduction all level off before it becomes easy and affordable enough that mere curiosity would suffice to make it possible, for ALL civilizations?

7373737373on Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

Google appears to either not screen ads at all or willingly allows misleading and lying ads and scams to reach its users. They profit off fraud by either laziness and ignorance or malice, by letting "ads" like "Your PDF reader needs an update" through. And they don't act on them when they are reported.

Every single company putting ads up in public is held to a higher standard.

7373737373on Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Mathlib is expert reviewed, but only contains a tiny fraction of all mathematics. So this seems to be a quantity of work a "10,000 agents" approach would be applicable to. Like Navier-Stokes, something to spend a couple million in compute on :)

7373737373on Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Oh? Where can i read more about that? It appears the sole focus so far was solving open problems

7373737373on Sharing AI progress in mathematics

It may be useful to publish a formalization of ALL known mathematics at this point. Like every book ever printed, every paper on arXiv etc.

How many Gigabytes would that be, compressed? Wikipedia once fit on a DVD

This might also allow for some interesting meta-mathematics

7373737373on A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

Also check out the Simulated Observation of the Solar System by the Habitable Worlds Observatory (under "Videos"), expected to be launched in the 2040s, the first to be able to detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars! https://habitableworldsobservatory.org/multimedia

DrBecky's video on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z2JIkAPcdnU

7373737373on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

Also never vote for anyone who

- is incapable of apologizing

- has a history of abusive behavior

- doesn't have a sense of humor, especially at their own expense

"How to spot an idiot": https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2Lo8ChhOKU

7373737373on Wax motor

Here is a timelapse of one opening a greenhouse window as it gets warm: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-55VBYbbdo

7373737373on Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

Time for Japanese laws - like the Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations: https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...

7373737373on A misalignment of AI in mathematics

People do: https://tcec-chess.com/

7373737373on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

7373737373on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Some mines are already heavily automated: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9w-mUoUsY

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRuht0QIprs

7373737373on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

Technical solutions are insufficient for such disregard, the company needs to be sued out of existence, and laws made to prohibit and punish such behavior

7373737373on Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)

Playlist showcasing the current restoration work: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpOUadaBh31n6Pdscwhwopmh...

7373737373on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

It's ironic that the US might currently do better with a (constitutional monarchy) king, to serve as an ethical example of living and governance, and change the role of the president to more of a serving bureaucrat

7373737373on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

Closed source software could apply too, if the execution model supports it (e.g. WebAssembly). Just because the format is binary and "unreadable", its permissions (accessible functions) don't have to be

7373737373on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

That's why languages need sandboxing at runtime as well

7373737373on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere

It's incredibly brainless and disrespectful

7373737373on On AI regulation and messaging

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-it-wouldnt-deliberatel...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/06/10/ant...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...

7373737373on On AI regulation and messaging

You didn't answer my question

7373737373on On AI regulation and messaging

How intelligent and autonomous does a murderbot have to become before you stop absolving its creator and seller from any responsibility?

7373737373on On A.I. regulation and messaging

Thou shalt not kill, that's all there is to it really

If you provide tools that help an organization kill easier, and possibly lazily rely on your inaccurate tools' judgment, and you do not care about the outcomes of these tools' uses, that's on your soul, too.

Yes, causality and attribution are hard sometimes, but it may have been that without it, hundreds of humans would be alive right now, and he doesn't even know. Maybe he should talk to the kids' parents about what alignment means.

7373737373on On AI regulation and messaging

And maybe don't allow the military to use your AI WHEN YOU CAN'T TELL WHETHER IT WAS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF HUNDREDS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN