Daniel Feshbach

www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llm...

I don't really mean to be hyperbolic here, but I think this might be a generational breakthrough

This is astonishing

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Finding a new psychologist is so much worse now with the internet, there's so much I can know

I'm kinda being constantly tortured online bc I both think

1. It's extremely unlikely current AI models are conscious.
2. Almost every argument I scroll by for my side is insane and is just steamrolling decades of philosophy of mind work.

This thread should be the death-knell for Platner's claim that the army didn't ban him for the Nazi tattoo and for his defenders' claims that he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo.

It's the reason he was barred from re-enlistment, and he knew it.

He's a liar who deliberately kept a Nazi tattoo.

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

Fantastic work from @davekarpf.bsky.social putting some perspective on the notion that AI can do social science research. It can generate passable journal articles, which is not necessarily the same thing. It's a chance to consider what we should be valuing. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

I'll say it again: If you're consistently finding ways to rationalize away Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo or embrace of Nazi content creators then you really are no different than those on the right who were trying to explain why Elon really wasn't giving a Heil Hitler

In general, yes, people need to let politicians politician as long as their glonzo hunt doesn't hurt policy. But I don't see a way out of the housing problem without breaking the exact attitude and power structures "stop PE from buying housing" reinforces.

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Battle school is a dumb genre, but it is a remarkably less dumb genre if you shift it to a PhD from high school.

Consider:

This has gotten even sadder as I’ve dug into it. The agent can see that I’m the tech lead on the project that produced it, and that I’ve said its perf. on this task was poor (about a prototype from a year ago). These are citations to an authoritative primary source so they survive all critique.

To clarify for the non-roboticists out there:

Two legged humanoid robots only stay standing when they’re powered and the control loops managing the joints and actively detecting the balance situation are all functioning.

Lose power? It keels over. All 120-200 lbs of it.

“Sure they’re helping against fascism, but let’s wait for the real test: whether or not they correctly ascribe historical change to materially-rooted class conflict”

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

I just don't buy arguments that all this cruelty against immigrants is a mean to some other end. It can be used that way, but it's worth remembering that Nazis diverted resources during wartime to make sure to kill Jews.

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard.

This policy is a horror:

newrepublic.com/article/2056...

RL-as-a-Service will outcompete AGI companies (and that's good) Hyping up a safer way to develop AI.

Context for what I mean by RLaaS:
splittinginfinity.substack.com/p/rl-as-a-se...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Literal gestapo shit. I don't know what to say other than that it happened here.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire laughed as he confessed to his dad, authorities say - Mississippi Today The man suspected of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue allegedly confessed his crimes to law enforcement and referred to the building in northeast Jackson as the “synagogue of Satan,” ac...

He was a devout Christian and quoted the New Testament "synagogue of Satan" as part of his confession.

It is not harmless to repeat the anti-Jewish rhetoric that is written in Christian scripture.

mississippitoday.org/2026/01/12/m...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

So GPT5.2 has imposter syndrome? It really is Ph.D.-level intelligence!