He introduces himself as Jeff, the creator of the novel, acknowledging upfront the irony of a guy with self-proclaimed “Claude psychosis” using Claude to make a novel about Claude taking over the world. But nonetheless. We proceed to “do” the “novel,” calling out what the protagonist should do at various inflection points in the narrative, while Jeff clicks our decisions into his computer. — this is actually Joe not Jeff 🤣
The AI bubble isn't a result of any actual return on investment — whether that be in purely monetary terms, like revenue or profitability, productivity gains, or anything tangible or measurable. Rather, it's an episode of cult-like psychosis that infected the brains of some of the most powerful and wealthy individuals and institutions, where the powerful mythology of a company inspired — and been used to inspire — the greatest capital misallocation in history.
For most of the 20th century, northern Europe simply didn't need cooling. Homes in Britain and Germany were built to keep heat in, not out, because winters were cold and summers rarely hot.
Developed by Mirelo and kyutai, our audio-to-MIDI model lets you do exactly that. Import a song and it generates the MIDI for you, separated into each instrument.
In bilinguals, hippocampal recordings during listening and speaking revealed overlapping neural geometry for English and Spanish. Each language accesses this shared meaning space through rotated neural readout axes, showing how the brain represents concepts across languages without interference.
By seeking to protect one group of women, ministers have paid remarkably little attention to another: the millions of divorced and widowed women who have consciously chosen financial independence. They may have secured homes, pensions and assets through divorce settlements, or inherited family property, and have children and grandchildren they want to provide for. For these women, some of them vulnerable, cohabitation is a safe space – companionship without financial integration or legal obligations.
We have a lot of ambition, but institutions need to match that and get rid of the red tape that's still there. We need to strengthen biodiversity and improve food security within London. We're never going to make London completely food independent, but we're looking to shed a light on the fact that the capital imports 94% of their food.
The paradox of the will centers on the problem of desire. I can very often will what I want (I am capable enough), but the wanting itself is not under my control. My desires are fickle and destructive, and once they take hold, they become impossible to resist. Attention, for Weil and for Murdoch, is a way of enlarging one's desire for good.
this advocacy for human-led storytelling is followed by claims that AI is “the future,” and Lucas compares not using the new technology to relying on antiquated transportation in the face of cars.
The novelist Denise Mina traced the appetite back to the broadsheet sellers of 18th-century London, who found that manufactured crimes sold copies so long as the victim fitted a particular profile. The trope of a dead woman, especially a pretty young white virtuous woman, has sold stories for centuries. But Mina resisted reading the appetite as sinister. It's what people want to read about, but perhaps it's not because they want to harm such characters, as much as they want to save them.
Folding is the operation that creates those spaces. In cortex, this shows up as populations of neurons that recruit each other into temporary assemblies and higher-order cliques. Reimann and colleagues found that microcircuits in simulated neocortex build up towers of connected groups (simplices) and multi-dimensional cavities during stimulation, reaching up to eleven topological dimensions before relaxing again.
A thought is more like an event or a convergence. Your brain is running dozens of parallel processes at once like semantic context (what the words mean), emotional weight (how relevant this is to you), memory traces (what you've encountered before that resembles this), prediction gradients (where this seems to be going), goal-state (what you're trying to figure out), and more. A thought is what happens when all of those pressures briefly resolve into a stable pattern.
Meaning is geometry. Thought is motion through relational structure. Translation is movement across readout axes inside a shared conceptual manifold. And this is a problem for one of the oldest objections in AI philosophy. The Chinese Room assumes symbols are manipulated syntactically while meaning exists somewhere else. This paper points toward a different picture. Meaning is not hidden behind the symbols. Meaning comes from the geometry relating them.
AI's rising sales share is currently a volume story, not a quality story: more shots on goal, not individual AI games converting better. An AI-flagged game reaches a real modest-success tier (≥100 reviews ≈ ~3,000 sales) at only about 55% of the non-AI rate — and that ratio hasn't improved in two years.
The secular left has no robust defense of humanity in the face of AI, even though all their assumptions depend on the belief that humans are intrinsically valuable. It is not enough now to say that people matter and the weak should be defended. 'Why?' says the rationalist, thinking through things logically. If consciousness is reducible to a mechanical process in the brain, then surely consciousness can emerge from mechanical processes in machines.
For 7 years we have been quietly building an MMO backend at Photon. Time to talk about it. It is our “concept car”: not a product, not an SDK, but real tech running today.
Each place-day plotted by its daily low (horizontal) and daily high (vertical), shaded by people-days. Points far above the diagonal have big daily swings (deserts); points hugging it barely change (humid tropics, oceans' influence).