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"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new." Carl Sagan

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I concur, though with a caveat: it's much less the U.S. military deserving hate and distrust than its delirious, power-drunk, crusader cross tattooed political leadership.

28.02.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a statue of yoda smoking a cigarette and saying `` the way , this is '' . ALT: a close up of a statue of yoda smoking a cigarette and saying `` the way , this is '' .
09.02.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ja, deutsche "Patrioten", die Europa am liebsten zugleich an die Moskauer und Pekinger Machthaber verscherbeln wΓΌrden, sitzen definitiv im Glashaus, wenn sie Korruption beklagen.

04.02.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists design molecules 'backward' to speed up discovery Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a pa...

Another day, another skill unlocked for generative AI in chemistry and biology. PropMolFlow designs molecules with specified properties 10 times faster than previous methods.

STEM-related use cases occupy <1% of anti-AI discourse but >99% of AI's transformative potential.
phys.org/news/2026-01...

24.01.2026 06:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukrainian Combat Robot Holds Frontline Position for Six Weeks in Sign of Growing UGV Maturity Uncover the significance of the UGV holds position for 6 weeks and its impact on frontline military strategies.

Fronturlaubsjob fΓΌr ukrainische Bodendrohnen?
defenceleaders.com/news/ukraini...

22.01.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Top 15 New Discoveries MADE By AI
Top 15 New Discoveries MADE By AI YouTube video by AI Uncovered

Tell me more about how golf courses have achieved any of these 15 scientific feats lately:
youtu.be/aYppKInSS4I

22.01.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You repeat all these lame anti-AI talking points without critical thought and then accuse me of letting AI reply for me, and the irony is somehow lost on you. Hilarious.

22.01.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't get me wrong, current AI is jagged and uneven with deficits in physical and spatial reasoning in particular, and its ability to generalize from training data is still limited, but it's a lot better than nothing.

22.01.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cancer drug discovery at warp speed: can AI deliver? In April, 2025, Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, appeared on the US television show 60 Minutes and suggested that all diseases could be curable with the help of artifici...

New drug candidates for cancer research are being discovered in record time:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

22.01.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery In this white paper, we present AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that substantially enhances capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs on highly challenging tasks such as tackling open scientific...

They accelerate research on mathematical proofs, identify useful new materials, improve computing infrastructure, chip designs and mathematical algorithms beyond prior limits.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131

22.01.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The next level of machine intelligence is to produce new knowledge not just in tests but in real-world cutting-edge science, and again: multimodal LLMs generate hypotheses, design experiments, and iterate based on results.

Plan->test->evaluate->revise->repeat.

22.01.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

..success depends on logical rigor and builder creativity impossible to fake by a parrot. These competitions pose original problems whose solutions cannot be lifted from AI training data. Yet the AIs did well, which demonstrates intelligence: the ability to figure out new and unanticipated problems.

22.01.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, technically yes, but so is the human brain. Your implicit assertion here is that AI has no intelligence whatsoever and only spits out rote-learned text blocks, which is demonstrably wrong.

General-purpose generative AIs recently won gold medals at international math and coding olympiads where

22.01.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

... (successfully completed tasks like AI generating a correct 3D protein structure or mathematical proof) every 9 months. It's not nothing.

Then you claim that AI systems are "just compression systems built of the most likely answer". This half-truth can be more deceptive than a plain lie.

22.01.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Power efficiency of Nvidia's new Vera Rubin platform surged five-fold over Blackwell in just 22 months.

Next, multiply that with the rate of improving algorithmic efficiency as AI models get pruned and distilled down. The same compute budget yields about twice the performance...

22.01.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Resource" in my previous post is not a basic resource like copper and sugar but computing power and its ability to solve problems in STEM fields, which does become exponentially more affordable. Hardware efficiency has been doubling every 2 years, an estimate that looked conservative recently.

22.01.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Es ist wie bei Putin: je mehr Europa zurΓΌckweicht, desto hΓ€rter schlΓ€gt er zu und desto ungeheuerlicher werden die Methoden und Risiken, die er auf seinem imperialen Kreuzzug eingeht. Bleibt man aber unbeugsam, wird er vorsichtig und sucht sich ein leichteres Opfer.

21.01.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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when resources get cheap and plentiful, more can be forked out to basic research that doesn't generate cash flow immediately. The AI revolution is driving an efficiency revolution in computation and the energy grid that facilitates access for everyone including research labs.

21.01.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

... they were computationally prohibitive until AI-accelerated modelling came of age using intelligent approximations.

Science is rarely the primary goal of economic activity. Rather, it's enabled by the economies of scale (cost advantages gained from scaled-up production):

21.01.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And lots of folks use the internet to look at p0rn and cat pictures, yet Alphafold and AlphaEvolve were developed at a web search company.

Molecular biology simulations aren't small but mind-blowingly intricate. They took so long to take off after the human genome project precisely because...

21.01.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

... and should not be gated like physical objects.

Copyright claims encompassing neural patterns representing general styles of art are far more extensive than even the demands of copyright maximalists back in the day.

21.01.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(literally, as in Very Concerned Citizens playing vinyl records backward to listen for demonic self-harm messages) and mp3 filesharing on FTP servers ("Thieves! Pirates! Criminals!") with similar arguments. We should not blame terrible life choices on tools and media, and information cannot be owned

21.01.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No invention, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, has ever been risk-free. More lives are saved each day by AI alerting users to a medical problem than lost by someone committing suicide after a chat session.

I'm old enough to remember when people were demonising Heavy Metal music...

21.01.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI water issue is fake On the national, local, and personal level

Knowing of closed-loop water-cooled PCs, I could guess before factchecking that the water issue must be vastly exaggerated, and lo and behold: even golf courses eclipse datacenters when it comes to water use. Andy Masley has the lowdown:
open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

21.01.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your reaction reminds me there are Luddite atheists as willfully ignorant as creationists. I do not need a chatbot to point out developments that have been in my news feed since the noughties, and neither does anyone else with an ounce of curiosity about science and the future of humanity.

21.01.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"parasitic" datacenters only bring tutoring to underserved communities, major coding powers to minor indie developers, better materials to electronics & machinery, efficiency to residential heating and the healthcare system, reliable biomolecular simulations to drug discovery and cancer research,...

20.01.2026 04:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Norway did the math: Arm Ukraine to win, or pay double when Russia does

Arming itself $1.2-1.6T

Arming Ukraine $522-838B

Norway did the math: Arm Ukraine to win, or pay double when Russia does Arming itself $1.2-1.6T Arming Ukraine $522-838B

SIMPLE MATH

06.12.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 1118 πŸ” 461 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 20
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Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side? Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.

Russland wird von imperialen, kolonialen Faschisten regiert, die jedes ZugestΓ€ndnis als Einladung auffassen, das nΓ€chste StΓΌck Osteuropas zu erobern. Will der Westen wirklich nach 2014 und 2022 noch einmal den gleichen Fehler machen?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

11.12.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wenn Reporter das strategische Gesamtbild aus den Augen verlieren, reden sie wie Christian Esch. Putin interessiert sich einen Shice fΓΌr ein paar Orte in Donezk. Er will sein Imperium zurΓΌck. Jeder befestigte Landstrich, den die Ukraine aufgibt, wird zum Aufmarschgebiet fΓΌr die nΓ€chste Invasion.

11.12.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I trust that self-styled antivax "purebloods" will practice what they preach and never let mRNA vaccines near their immaculate DNA. The rest of us can look forward to mRNA vaccines tailored to specific cancer antigens, letting the immune system target tumors. Over 60 candidates are in development.

14.11.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0