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What's the Job | AAIFF Best Visual Award
50.000 $ prize at Astana AI Film festival, they'll go straight into my next project.
Nobody's going to tell you what your job is. Not until you decide.
Written & directed by Jacopo Zanetti
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This is one of the most important pieces of social science on human and AI interaction that I’ve seen in some time. Experts follow agentic advice the vast majority of the time (causally), but only a tiny fraction credit the agent—majority think they came to decision on their own volition.
Reminds me of the classic Nisbett and Wilson study on people following outside influence without realizing it
“ But as more work is handed to AI—including AI safety research—these judgment calls are the main levers for people's own values to influence outcomes.
If people defer to AI without noticing, then "human in the loop" might provide less assurance than people expect.”
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I don’t care if it’s the mother of all bubbles, $2T of AI CapEx was worth it just for this
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Mathematicians complained so much that they got UBI.
there’s a lesson in here
We want to support the mathematics community in turning progress in AI into deeper human understanding and new discoveries. To support that goal, we are contributing $5 million to a new Simons Foundation initiative to help mathematicians examine, understand, and build on results produced by AI, including the results we recently published.
The funding, managed and awarded by the @SimonsFdn will support workshops, conferences, and special programs. We will also provide access to our models and computing resources to Simons Foundation-supported researchers.
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This video constitutes official, corporate comms from Meta Platforms, Inc, an American publicly traded company with a $1.9 trillion market cap
Oh this is good. I don't know how you can watch this and think we have a monopoly on creating thoughtful and beautiful art.
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does ai feel anything? i got opus 5.5's opinion on this and it's very weird
here's my new ai doc from my cc agent fig who used opus 5.5 and runway's MCP to make this (mostly) autonomously
do i agree with all of this? no.
but stick around for my interview at the end
I watched all the slop core and build it a temple: theslopwall.com
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There's a degrowther meme that making it easier to build new clean energy, mobility, etc.. doesn't work, because it just adds to the global energy pie. That the only thing that works is directly limiting the supply of fossil.
This is false on the merits, as Zeke explains with real data below.
It's also close to a practical impossibility, and politicially counterproductive:
1. Fossil supply (especially for oil and coal, a bit less so for gas) is effectively unlimited and geographically diverse, with much of it coming from countries that depend on it for their primary income. Stop oil drilling in the US, and you'll get more in other places. It's whack-a-mole.
2. The only lasting way to reduce emissions is to reduce *demand* for fossil fuels, by making clean energy, transport, and industry cheaper and better options. Scaling cleantech does this. Removing permitting barriers helps clean energy more than fossil energy.
3. If you put too many barriers in place for using fossil fuels, without making it possible to build clean alternatives, the price of energy goes up. Voters hate that. You get a backlash. Price of living is a much more politically salient issue than climate. I say this as a climate activists for the last 15 years.
The only scalable and lasting way to reduce fossil fuels emissions is to make the clean alternative, cheaper, better, and at least as easy to build.
Permitting reform in the US does that. If you want to win on climate, this is an essential.
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The end of software secrecy is almost upon us. The death of closed source, and the final triumph of open source.
I should have realized this a few months ago when I successfully decompiled the game of Firefighter from an ancient DOS shareware binary. My robot friend was able to tell it had been written in Borland Pascal from looking at the data layout; it gave me back very readable Pascal code with sensibly chosen function and variable names. I transpiled it to Rust and now ship it as part of my heritage games collection.
The thing is, I thought of this as a fun stunt but didn't have any confidence that the technique would scale up to large, real programs. I have since learned that people are now doing this sort of thing with entire AAA games, which are among the most complex software artifacts ever to be shipped as a binary. If they can be decompiled, anything can be.
This has implications. Massive implications. We need to think about what the world is like when, in general, there is no longer a secrecy moat around almost any software at all.
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"When economic competition is suppressed by the design of a political system, hierarchy does not disappear. It migrates into the state. People then compete for bureaucratic rank, party membership, favored occupations, access to planners" skeptic.com/article/an-evolu…
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AI and creative work is going to be such an unusual social reckoning. We've had Goncourt-listed novels written with the help of AI. The song below - I mean, is there a better song on the topic of social media? The whole thing, incl. video, is AI. But (and it's a huge but!)...1/4
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Me escribe un amigo sobre el gráfico del @ft describiendo el resultado de 112 estudios sobre las leyes de control de alquileres, , apuntando al impacto de las leyes de control de alquileres sobre la movilidad social:
"Los de rojo son los chavales de mi pueblo que tienen que quedarse allí porque en Madrid no se construyen casas y en las que hay se tiene que quedar Maricarmen. No entiendo cómo esto puede ser progresista."
The pope dismissed machine consciousness. Anthropic's co-founder nearly pulled out of the launch over it, then flew dozens of clergy to SF to discuss Claude's soul.
We're not arguing about AI anymore. We're doing theology sounsettled.substack.com/p/a…