Anyone who has ever dealt with the less cognitive able Latin Americans knows that feeling: zero concept of time, zero concept of punctuality, & zero concept of not telling implausible lies. Cultural clashes are quite amusing.
LatAm passport bros from 1970s explains how best to get things done in the 80 IQ world.
Not to be mistaken with the viral ‘it’s so tiring’ Chinese clip - which deals with the 65 IQ world (link in post below).
The 2nd world is not the same as the 3rd world. 1 SD in median IQ is considerable. Learn the difference.
I quite enjoy Yglesias hate.
The problem here is loose language this result is a measurement of mass, not weight. The earth is in freefall around the sun with no force acting on it, so it’s weightless. We have weight because the ground is generating a force against us when we stand on scales.
This is reasonably accurate. Southern California is only a death zone inland. The no zone is pleasant & habitable in winter. Florida is only a death zone because ‘Florida Man’ finds increasingly bizarre ways to die.
Almost impossible to be elected president, unless you reference god in some way. Disagree with Dawkins that it matters much for ordinary people. Who cares if an Iowa farmer believes the earth is 6,000 years old. He’s not running anything influential.
New research shows that 80 million Americans are afraid to express religious doubts. The documentary HEATHENS follows five of them when they stopped pretending, paid the price of truth, and rebuilt free, joyful lives. I found the film moving, even shocking.Catch an upcoming screening in SF, LA or NY. With US mid-terms coming up, it's a good time to examine beliefs and values.heathens.movie
This was an astonishing fumble by the BC premier. His NDP party had a small majority over the Conservatives, who were leaderless & full of internal fights. Calls a snap election & proceeds to lose in a landslide. Never underestimate how much the public personally dislikes you.
Just 4 years ago, Getty Images was worth $2.6 billion now zero & bankrupt. It’s not all because of Ai, but some of it is. Why pay a license for a stock image when Ai will generate one for free. Value that is implicitly about scarcity may not remain scarce, that’s who’s at risk.
Richard 🐎 retweeted
President Trump says that Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean.
'And I spoke to a brilliant guy, Sundar, he heads all of Google, he's a brilliant guy. Sergey and Sundar, totally brilliant guys. You know, they're still rattled from the Gulf. And I said, "Sundar, I'm thinking of the Atlantic Ocean, can you handle it?" "No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it," he said. He said, "Oceans are different, sir. You know, they cover, they cover really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that."
The post WW2 baby cohort were extremely violent, when they aged violent crime dropped. They were also prolific serial killers, when they aged serial killing fell. Although improved detection is also a part of that, in that it’s now extremely difficult to remain an undetected SK.
The way the FBI is tracking & arresting criminals all over the world, it’s obvious they’re using some sophisticated tracking technology. If you have any sort of digital footprint at all, then Palantir have technology that can identify & find you anywhere in the world.
The TSO, or Technology Support Office, was established in April to 'covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.'
In September the Washington Sun reported that the NSA told lawmakers in classified intelligence briefings that it estimates it has spent billions of dollars 'evaluating and testing' models this year already.
In the draft S-1 leaked by the WSJ yesterday, Anthropic said that one-fifth of its $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 came from just two customers.
Motive, means, and opportunity. I think a lot of money is being spent by agencies through Project Glasswing or channels related to it, and they have probably covertly penetrated every nation on earth to look at anything even potentially considered a threat. There is no defense against the current internal version of Mythos unless you have access to it. No foreign intelligence agency on earth has anything even close. It's actions would also almost certainly be undetectable. Assume US agencies know much more about any technological progress in China than they are letting on; given Dario's openly stated position on China, this would almost certainly be done with his approval.
We can’t actually directly tell you what to do. However life for you is going to get a whole lot tougher, unless you do what we want. It’s like saying the mafia have no law enforcement role.
Remarkable how Ai models are exposing how many of the things we were assured were safe weren’t secure at all.
OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites.
Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors.
Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact.
This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare.
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OpenAI may claim a role in the coordinated response and patching process. But the initial discovery and exploit development, however, occurred several months earlier by an independent researcher.
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The detached political class think the public care about the issues that obsess them. That alone indicates they’ve never actually met many of the public. It’s mostly the little daily annoyances that the public care about. Things like more expensive fish & chips & delivery pizza
