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BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.
They just memorize patterns really well.
Here's what Apple discovered:
(hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)
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"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
E.E. Cummings on the courage to be yourself: themarginalian.org/2017/09/2…
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On this day, 39 years ago, Andrei Tarkovsky's final film,
"The Sacrifice" (1986) was released in Sweden.
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‘THE LEGEND OF OCHI’ director Isaiah Saxon says that fantasy-adventure movies for kids have become “corporatized” by Hollywood.
“Kids are basically behind a giant corporate garden. It’s hard to make an indie movie that reaches kids... that’s why this took so long to make.”
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not many people understand that OCHI and FRIENDSHIP exist in the same cinematic universe. 👨🦰🤝🐵
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I'VE SEEN TECHNOLOGY RESHAPE OUR WORLD REPEATEDLY. PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS AMPLIFIED HUMAN CAPABILITIES BUT DIDN'T FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN INTELLECT. THEY EXTENDED OUR REACH BUT DIDN'T MULTIPLY OUR MINDS.
Artificial intelligence is different. It's past the point where a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. AI amplifies and multiplies the human brain, much like steam engines once amplified muscle power. Before engines, we consumed food for energy and that energy we put to work. Engines allowed us to tap into external energy sources like coal and oil, revolutionizing productivity and transforming society. AI stands poised to be the intellectual parallel, offering a near-infinite expansion of brainpower to serve humanity.
AI promises a future of unparalleled abundance. However, as we transition to a post-scarcity society, the journey may be complex, and the short term may be painful for those displaced. Mitigating these challenges requires well-reasoned policy. The next 0–10 years, 10–25 years, and 25–50 years will each be radically different. The pace of change will be hard to predict or anticipate, especially as technology capabilities far exceed human intelligence and penetrate society at varying rates. (1/25)
khoslaventures.com/ai-dystop…
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HOT DAMN. Week #2. This is bonkers. IF EVERYONE WATCHES IT AGAIN WE'LL CRACK THE TOP TEN OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!
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Great cartoon by the @marketoonist drawing on David Ogilvy's classic quote
“The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think and they don’t do what they say.”
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After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a reset of circuits critical to the sense of self.
Our study is out today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.
Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.
Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.
All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.
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Over the holiday weekend I met a woman who works for forest service in Nevada City, California. We got to chatting about fire risk, as one does.
She noted that her county -- like every other California county -- is still approving new homes in areas ...
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Attending the NYC premiere of “Eno” (2024) tonight; this version will never be seen again.
"Partly a piece of art, partly an experiment in technology, 'Eno' is a film that changes with every screening" -The Wrap
"Groundbreaking." -Rolling Stone
“Sleek, seamless, and compelling" -Variety
