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😯 major hints were needed, but this is impressive from o3!

“We’re not living through the end of democracy, we’re dealing with the end of power.”

The original singularity.

I predict chemical computing is going to leap frog work on quantum and biological computers because of the relative ease of building, error correction, and scaling. youtube.com/watch?v=-YutFZ…

Rian Chad Whitton It also seems that the industrial strategy is completely blind to the importance of cheap oil and gas to the country's economy, conceptually incapable of acknowledging it.

Agentic A.I. vs experienced physicians for diagnosis of > 300 complex diagnostic cases: 4-fold higher accuracy and 20% lower cost arxiv.org/abs/2506.22405 Harsha Nori Chris Kelly Dominic King Mustafa Suleyman Eric Horvitz

This was no fluke — complacent Premier League can no longer dismiss Saudi thetimes.com/article/60fbcc…

Javier Milei to businessmen | The more money you make, the better society is "Here amongst us there are many people dedicated to making money... They've been successful by helping other people with better quality goods at better prices. So, they are social benefactors.

Blue 🐋 No other area of psychology, imho, comes anywhere close to being BOTH reliable & philosophically interesting than adaptationist cognitive science (i.e. "evolutionary psychology").

Exactly this. The correct Hi/Lo mix will win the next war!

Kerala, the destination you'll never want to leave. Thank you, The Fauxy. #F35 #Trivandrum #KeralaTourism

At Plaistow Tube station in east London. In a few short minutes I saw a string of people break the barrier. All under the nose of a station assistant (who told me he was under instruction not to challenge fare evaders). The social contract is fast eroding in the UK.

We wanted to see if LLMs could be strategic. 140,000 decisions in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma later, we had an answer: They can. Arxiv paper below the fold:

How should 🇬🇧 define asymmetric advantage? We asked 8 experts in today's #BigAsk ✍️ Keith Dear, Prof. Carl Hunter OBE, Dr Ksenia Kirkham, Christian Le Miere, James Rogers, Dr Emma Salisbury, H I Sutton and Victoria Vdovychenko #BritainsWorld britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…

Pleased to have my take on the definition of asymmetric advantage in our National Security Strategy published by the Council on Geostrategy - and among a stellar cast offering their views. open.substack.com/pub/britainswo…

Keith Dear defines asymmetric advantage as ‘demonstrably matching our strengths against other’s weaknesses, in a way that we can show, probabilistically, will lead us to achieve a superior position if we are successful’ #BigAsk #BritainsWorld britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…

Orhan Pamuk, my favourite writer, on the pleasures of reading and books.

Brussels to stockpile critical minerals because of war risk via Financial Times Meanwhile in the U.K. 🦗🦗🦗 on.ft.com/3GAUe6a

Phil Myers I’m afraid there are no easy answers. Wealth taxes fail. Raising the top rate of income tax would bring in very little and possibly lose revenue. Corporation tax is realistically high by historic and international standards.