Memetic and cognitive hazards.Substack:https://axisofordinary.substack.com/
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Axis of Ordinary appears in 147 event pages on TGListI told you before about the Romanian born right-wing AfD politician Markus Frohnmaier. He's married to a Russian, was a member of an FSB-controlled committee, and has met with pro-Russian separatists. Leaked Russian strategy papers refer to him as "a parliamentarian under our…
Democracies A and B border an aggressive dictatorship: A–constitution outlaws surrender and mandates compulsory conscription in case of a defensive war. B–constitution mandates surrender if opinion polls show that less than 50% are willing to fight a superior aggressor and…
Tony Feng on the 10 OpenAI Astra proofs: I am a mathematician but I avoided commenting on this because the problems are (far) outside my domain. Even if I sat down to read the technical details (which I have not), it would be hard to appreciate the context of prior work, etc.…
More links: 1. GPT-6 Astra engineered its own harness to complete NetHack, a famously difficult, turn-based dungeon adventure game. Code: 2. Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics -- The metric is simple and computable with Lean: interestingness = proof difficulty /…
I told you before about the Romanian born right-wing AfD politician Markus Frohnmaier. He's married to a Russian, was a member of an FSB-controlled committee, and has met with pro-Russian separatists. Leaked Russian strategy papers refer to him as "a parliamentarian under our…
"Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World" (Google DeepMind + Duke/Columbia/Texas A&M). It takes Co-Scientist out of simulation and into real-world experiments. • It helped researchers develop a safer synthesis route for a material resembling Ti₃C₂Tₓ…