Upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man
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Joscha Bach retweeted
We are at the 'ballot initiative to personally give me a billion dollars' stage of democracy in California.
European regulators love their cookie banners. All new European cars require you to manually turn off the acoustic warning signal that goes off whenever you touch the speed limit. Every time you start the car. Now the same "functionality" comes to FSD. rdw.nl/en/news/2026/rdw-appr…
California demonstrates the pitfalls of direct democracy: anyone can collect signatures and put an arbitrary proposition on the ballot. How about giving a few billion tax payer dollars to your own organization? No problem if you make it sound like it's for a good cause.
Joscha Bach retweeted
Introducing Isometric SF A pixel-art map of the entire SF Bay Area, over 1,300 square miles, all painted by Klein, a 4B-parameter image-to-image model, on @modal.
Explore the map now!
isometricsf.com
Joscha Bach retweeted
👇🏼Kory is one of my favorite researchers at Google DeepMind, so creative and kind - and Montreal is a phenomenal city! Don't sleep on this.
Awesome, awesome opportunity: – at East Palo Alto, CA
I'm looking for a Student Researcher (BS/MS or PhD) to join me at @GoogleDeepMind Montreal!
We're working to get the best generative AI into the hands of the best creative people and pushing models past current frontiers for media & entertainment.
Links & how to apply 👇
"Many forms of Government have been tried... No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.…" — Winston Churchill
Joscha Bach retweeted
“In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.”
~Hugo Rossi,“Mathematics Is an Edifice, Not a Toolbox,”Notices of AMS
Joscha Bach retweeted
This is such an important conversation.
Personally, I suspect that we will not be able to identify when or whether machines become conscious. If that is shown to be true, what should we do?
Joscha Bach retweeted
LFM2.5-24B harness adapter for @NousResearch hermes agent!
We just finished the LoRA training of the hermes adapter for @liquidai LFM2.5-24B - no accuracy drop on held out test tasks with 20% efficiency gain!
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Joscha Bach retweeted
Everyone has opinions on how to raise a kid. Turns out AI is no different.
@Plinz breaks down the four types of AI parenting styles:
➝ Helicopter: the EU, and many people inside AI companies. Keep it tightly regulated and paced with plenty of state oversight.
➝ F-16: @ESYudkowsky and his followers. It’s way too dangerous, and we need to stop it before it grows, even if that means bombing the data centres.
➝ Free range: The @bengoertzel's of the world. He has very big hopes for our "non-biological children". Let them roam freely.
➝ Tiger: @pmarca and the accelerationists. Push for success, ride the tiger, and hope for the best outcome.
Where are you sitting here?
I sat down with 5 top minds in AI and asked them some of the field's hardest questions.
They agreed on one big thing. Here’s where they split:
1) Can we pause AI? No.
Every panellist agreed a pause isn’t realistic. @bengoertzel called it “sort of a joke at the moment.” He says it would take a global surveillance state to enforce.
But @KaiZenBickle said that if we could pause it, we probably should.
Joscha Bach retweeted
What if there is no hard problem? @Plinz
Joscha Bach retweeted
I fly a lot and have been tracking this stuff for the past few years using a Radiacode- a pocket-sized spectrometer. I expected much higher radiation rates on regular flights, but the data was actually fairly comforting. What you want is to minimise flying near the poles during space weather events- specifically solar radiation storms, when the Sun throws protons at Earth
It is wild to me that people aren't that interested in space weather (or even know how much it affects things!). That airlines don't avoid certain paths during solar radiation storms (S3+) is a shame - exposing crew and passengers to much higher radiation
I actively shift travel plans around space weather
Joscha Bach retweeted
Computer, visualize earth across 400M years
Computer built an interactive globe of Earth's 4.5 billion years from 14 open datasets, with its own engine moving 258 plates across 109 paleo-elevation maps.
Drag the timeline, or type a city to see where it sat 400 million years ago.
deeptime.pplx.app/
Joscha Bach retweeted
A new airplane only makes sense if it's at least 15% more efficient than what's already flying. Better aerodynamics and carbon fiber get you part of the way. The rest has to come from a new engine. Who are the best engine startups right now?
