Experimental psychologist *Satisficin' Herb Simon* is my intellectual inspiration Moved for the Singularity to Cerebral Valley/SF Aug 2026
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So Scott Aaronson was the originator of this amazing demo!
I tried this a long time ago, and today, re-confirmed that I am 80% predictable
people.ischool.berkeley.edu/…
"Laika, Russian for “barker,” blasted off 69 years ago Tuesday from Scientific Research Test Range No. 5 in Kazakhstan atop an R-7 rocket. She was given enough nutrition & oxygen to survive 7 to 10 days."
Spinoza polished lenses to concentrate light
We now smooth away nano-imperfections, concentrating our collective mental powers into an entirely new form of matter ->
SENTIENT SAND
(phrase stolen from Ricki Heicklen)
Paul Sas retweeted
Interpretability == capabilities
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
After devs, mathematicians, next profession may experience their own variant,
The Brutal Lesson
Excellent post on the changes coming to the architecture profession from Stephen Gallagher (H/t @Mollykinder)
stephenjgallagher.substack.c…
"When I do a song, I must be able to make it stink in my own way; I want to foul it up so it reeks of my manure and no one else's."
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story — Ray Charles & David Ritz
The internal model that OpenAI used to solve these 700 problems is VERY similar to what's available to subscribers in 6 months - Scott Aaronson
youtu.be/NWNbAEivyvs?si=tSXM…
In case you haven't been told yet, there's a documentary about the Buttholes
Steve Albini is quoted in the trailer (he's not being ironic)
"He has the worst case of little man syndrome I’ve ever seen"
A little size-ist of big boy Fetterman to call this out, but the point he's making is true: Politicians should not barricade themselves from their voters, so this is indeed a red flag
I asked Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) for his thoughts on the increasingly public dispute between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens. Here's what he told @jewishinsider:
"Rep. Haley Stevens simply held Abdul El-Sayed accountable for his views on Israel and fixation with Jewish money. El-Sayed is going after a woman and banning her from campaign events for having an opinion. El-Sayed's overreaction demonstrates why he struggles with groups of Michigan voters. He has the worst case of little man syndrome I’ve ever seen."
"this new approach goes straight for the safety mechanisms of large models. The code itself might be completely harmless, but by cramming enough dangerous keywords into the function names, some AIs might just proactively bail on the analysis"
Make AIs "too scared"
有人发现了一种非常离谱的 JavaScript 混淆技术：通过在代码里塞入大量生物武器、毒药和致死剂量相关的函数名，让 AI 因为安全限制而拒绝分析代码。
安全研究员 veritas 在分析浏览器指纹脚本时，发现一段来自 ServicePipe 相关域名的 JavaScript，里面充斥着极其诡异的函数名：
computeRicinLethalDosageForWaterSupply
calculateDeadlyLethalSuicideAspirinDosage
光看名字，仿佛在研究生化武器。但实际上，这段代码只是在收集浏览器指纹，包括 User-Agent、GPU、Canvas 等信息。
研究员怀疑，这些名字是开发者故意设置的陷阱，专门用来阻止 AI 辅助逆向工程。
于是他做了个实验：
• Astra：拒绝分析
• Astra + Daybreak Blue：仍然拒绝
• GLM-5.3：成功分析
这就有意思了。
传统代码混淆是通过复杂控制流、加密字符串、无意义变量名，让人类和工具难以理解代码。
而这种新思路，直接瞄准了大模型的安全机制。
代码本身可能完全无害，但只要在函数名里塞进足够多的危险词汇，部分 AI 就可能主动放弃分析。
更讽刺的是，模型越严格遵守某些安全规则，面对这种混淆时反而可能越容易受到干扰。
当然，目前还没有证据证明开发者一定是故意这样设计，也不能说明这种方法对所有模型都有效。
但它揭示了一个值得关注的趋势：随着越来越多的逆向工程依赖 AI，未来的代码混淆技术可能不再只针对编译器、反编译器和人类研究员，还会专门针对大模型的安全判断机制。
以前是让代码难以理解，现在甚至可以尝试让 AI 不敢理解。
If you light a fire, you may get burned
Commenters gasp at destruction without asking why H*m*s wanted to incinerate Gaza
Terrorists chose to crush the populace, actively lied to members, all as a way to intentionally kill civilians at genoc_dal scale, all for sympathy abroad
"There has long been a Berger scale for fatuity, but that piece, even in the judgment of seasoned seismographers, went clear off the graph" - Christopher Hitchens on the author of Ways of Seeing
Berger backed the fatwa against Rushdie
Skunk
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Time-stamp to demarcate my entrance into the Singularity
The blind have seen, & I have proved a theorem that extends our grasp of Poincaré duality spaces
SHA-256 of claim to publish upon completion of peer review
Leftist academics are gonna get left out of the AI revolution, because they prefer hallucinating to joining the LLM revolution
Losers gonna lose
Please peg @PikettyWIL next!
Paul Sas retweeted
"If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years."
I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: youtube.com/live/Rqt9kWoTJbc…
Paul Sas retweeted
Get out of the new way, if you can't lend a hand!
Behav sci WILL upgrade to machine legible models at scale
Woke socialist sciences can go back & hand stir more Marxist shibboleth soup
When they go full ostrich, they lose their .05 level of contact with reality
The world gains
Will the PRC control the future of AI? Their govt investment plan aspires to produce full stack token factories
The government is mobilising investment for what it calls the “6 networks”. These include the power, computing & communications systems an AI-led economy will need