Actually, nevermind... this looks more like Anthropic and xAI coincided due to shared xAI infra (6:23am and 6:30am), and OpenAI's issue was more likely then a coincidence (7:43am).
I currently have a small TTS model running in the background on my machine through which my agent(s) speak to me as they work. If that can be baked into an ASIC along with a few thousand voices in every major language then it should just be a utility chip on your mobo for anything that needs it. And yes, I too, am looking forward to it.
I just want to say thank you. The playa phone is a fixture.
I think in 2008 I walked by it and said "oh, that's a funny art installation." Then the phone rang, and I said "wait, what? is that a working pay phone?"
I picked it up and someone asked me if I was satisfied with my home insurance.
You could spend the entire week high as a kite, biking around and just looking at everything without talking to anyone, though the vast majority of the community are people you probably would enjoy interacting with. I find most burners thoughtful, compassionate, playful, caring, etc.
What I suspect would happen is you'd start out this way ^, but then you'd gradually discover that the community is great and interactions with people are pretty fun actually. Part of the experience is the opportunity to get outside of your normal baseline personality if you want. You can be anyone for a week. Most people don't even want to talk about their lives off the playa.
Culture changes on the weekend, when you get a lot of "partiers" just for the man and temple burn. There are a bit more irresponsible and inconsiderate people then, but not enough to ruin the overall community vibe.
Complement: I know many devs who are exceptional at 1 (writing code), and 2 (contextual thinking) never even occurs to them. They will happily implement whatever they are told, without ever thinking to ask "why am I being asked to implement this?" or "is this actually solving the problem?"
If you are a US citizen, they are not entitled to your unlocked phone. They need a judicial warrant if they want you to unlock your phone with a PIN/password. It is settled case law that that falls under your protections under the 14th Amendment.
They can take it for a "reasonable amount of time" (inconvenience you for a few hours and make you miss your connecting flight) while they copy an encrypted image. They then must return it to you.
It’s a preemptive attack to prevent accountability for Trump and Hegseth under the next presidency. All of those extrajudicial boat attacks that have been justified by claiming they were smuggling drugs (cocaine imports to the US haven’t dropped at all, BTW) are likely unjustified murders.
This administration attacks any body or authority that has the power to hold them accountable. See: attacks on the judiciary, attacks on the media, attacks on academia, etc.
I dont thimk they are that rational and planning ahead. It is reflection of their values and feelings.
It is ideological. Both of them and their close rich supporters feel ICC goals are abomination on itself, they put limits on power and they are therefore "bad" and "tyranny".
Hegseth dont plan. As evidenced by Iran war daily. Trump dont plan legal issues. They dont exist in his head at all.
Seriously. I see a cool product that someone built and is sharing with the community, and the top comment is basically a criticism that it's not a $31k terminal.
In 88% (36 out of 41) of patients with high-risk HPV, taking reishi + turkey tail mushrooms daily for 2 months cleared the virus, versus 5% clearance (1 out of 20) in the control group. I suspect that 88% clearance rate would be higher if they continued for longer than 2 months.
Sorry, but no. This does not pass the smell test in the slightest.
This is:
- A single author paper with no academic affiliations.
- A search on the internet for this author finds them also pitching essential oils and a wide variety of other "alternative medicine" on the Youtube/Podcast grifter circuit and not the sorts of alternative medicine anyone seriously thinks might have some merit.
- The address listed for his supposed place of practice appears to be a roadside "clini-spa" advertising beauty treatments.
- This could only get published in some low-impact journal that's solely about the purported benefits of mushrooms, even though if true this would be a pretty revolutionary finding that would be of interest to far bigger journals.
Can I prove it's fraud? No, especially since I'm not paying $25 to look at the paper details.
But unless this finding replicates from someone with credibility, I don't think this means much of anything and I certainly don't think you should be taking anything in this paper as a fact.
I had a related insight, but in the domain of humor [1].
LLMs are inherently probabilistic, and there's currently no mechanism for producing an orthogonal directional change in the path traced through a latent space which is also contextually relevant (landing on a punch line).
In other words, LLMs are fundamentally incapable of making intuitive/orthogonal leaps in context.
It might be possible to add this capability with a new architectural component like transformers, but specifically for making "left turns"/intuitive leaps.
You have committed the classic blunder of confusing your abstraction layers.
"Probabilistic next word prediction" and "humor" sit about as far apart as "modulating airflow with meat flaps" and "humor" do. One is an interface through which an action is performed and the other is a highly abstract capability.
Would you claim that a podcast comedian is fundamentally incapable of being funny because all he ever does is wiggle the air with his throat meat flaps? Probably not.
Absolutely nothing about "probabilistic next word prediction" forbids "making intuitive/orthogonal leaps in context". The interface is expressive enough.
And empirically? The "sense of humor" in LLMs is yet another "a function of model scale" capability. GPT-4.5 was reportedly funnier than both GPT-4o and o1. Fable 5 is reportedly funnier than Opus 4.x. It's one of those ever-elusive "big model smell" signs that are hard to measure with anything other than vibes.
Under the "humor as an opposed social intelligence test" family of hypothesis, what "being funny" reflects is the funny guy's ability to model and predict you and your reactions. For the comedian to be able to make the audience laugh, he must know his audience well, model it accurately enough to be able to spot the "breaking points" of humor, things they'd find unexpected and clever and thus "funny", and then weave those things into the jokes.
Then, a bigger LLM gets better at humor because it has a more accurate model of how humans think of things - including the "ha-ha" gaps. It's a "theory of mind" capability. It's not "special", it's just hard.
Humor requires a sudden orthogonal leap from context. That's what a punchline is.
I think you're saying that you can eventually train models to arrive at that destination by training on existing jokes, effectively encoding these leaps as probabilities.
In that case, the model isn't actually making an intuitive/comedic leap; they're just following new probability chains in attempting to approximate examples they've seen in training.
I'm suggesting that something architecturally different is necessary to create a model which can make intuitive/comedic leaps.
Try to get a frontier model to write a clever, funny joke which hasn't been seen before. Or, try to get it to make an intuitive leap that leads to a novel discovery.
You can use them to guide your own efforts along these lines, as a sounding board. But with current architecture I just don't think either is possible for an LLM to do on its own.
> Try to get a frontier model to write a clever, funny joke which hasn't been seen before.
This is what I refer to when it comes to larger models like Fable 5 being funnier. They are more capable of doing that. They can deliver that "sudden orthogonal leap from context" of yours more reliably.
It's not a "fundamental inability" and never was. If you crank the scale up and a capability appears, "current architecture" was never the problem.
