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venturebeat.com 13d ago

Anthropic reveals a workspace in Claude that mirrors a theory of consciousness

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arstechnica.com 1mo ago

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

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cacm.acm.org 1mo ago

Genesis, U.S. Department of Energy wants to build a single national AI platform

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thereader.mitpress.mit.edu 1mo ago

An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar (2024)

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arstechnica.com 2mo ago

Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included

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arstechnica.com 5mo ago

SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch

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arstechnica.com 7mo ago

Trump's attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

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arstechnica.com 9mo ago

Army general says he's using AI to improve "decision-making"

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

With all the cuts to NASA and STEM fields,are we giving up on Tech race to China

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www.fastcompany.com 1y ago

Estimates suggest that writing code accounts for half of large language usage

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

HN is purely tech? But tech is now political. How to discuss?

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

2026 budget proposal: Crippling cuts for science across the board

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cragwind.com 1y ago

Comparing voxel game, porting from fsharp to rust

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benthams.substack.com 1y ago

A Cult vs. an Exclusive Club

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias

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www.theregister.com 1y ago

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, keep everyone in line

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theconversation.com 1y ago

What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief

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aeon.co 1y ago

The Nature of Natural Laws

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aeon.co 1y ago

Is God a Silverback? Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial.

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Where Are the Financial Bots? Or Good Guy Bots?

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

1M AI Models on Hugging Face

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aeon.co 1y ago

Time Is an Object

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medium.com 1y ago

The Misunderstood Matrix Sequels

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techcrunch.com 1y ago

Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI

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aeon.co 2y ago

The Life of the Mind. In her final work, Hannah Arendt incisive critique

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aeon.co 2y ago

What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT

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aeon.co 2y ago

Do Plants Have Minds?

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finance.yahoo.com 2y ago

Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami" – IMF Chief

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www.reuters.com 2y ago

What caused the storm that brought Dubai to a standstill?

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I don't think it is completely about the language. JVM taking more memory isn't the problem with in-memory databases. It is having more data than can fit in memory. Even an in-memory SQL Db would eventually run out of memory, no matter the language it was coded in.

A lot of DB design is around this subject. And so it seems like if you found a way to allow a graph DB data to expand beyond in-memory by allowing it to reside on disk is a really big deal. But, since it would be a big deal, I'd think the big guys with a lot of resources would offer it as an option, or feature. It would be worth investing in.

Technically correct. But kind of backs every argument into a corner. I'm assuming also, anything like a paper with data, can also be questioned in the same way. Don't object, I've seen that done. So basically, don't talk about anything, because anything you say is contradicted by something somewhere. Everything is True, Everything is False, everything is subjective. There is no reality. Every person has there own point of reference that is completely subjective and invalid.

I was sloppy. I didn't mean to include science fiction authors, or extreme futurists.

"everyone", being, a typical average of realistic predictions.

In the 90's. I remember people talking about voice recognition will take 50 years. Let alone understanding. Now this is an easy base line feature.

Let alone protein folding.

"How is this not obvious to everyone? As we advance it becomes more difficult to advance. "

It's a type of recent change blindness. Because for the last few years there are seemingly impossible breakthroughs every few months. Literally, things everyone said would take 30 or 100 years, happen within months. It is really easy to think this will continue. The new normal. Really, we haven't seen it slow down at all, so why would we expect the miracles to stop all of a sudden?

It seems like accelerating, and decelerating, are both fair game as future directions at this point.

So it is nice that the paper put some weight behind the argument that this could all grind to a halt for a lot of different reasons beyond the hype.

Can CRISPR also be done at home this cheaply?

Seems like maybe of the 3 dystopias: AI, Global Warming, Bio-warfare. That this is demonstrating that the home grown virus is closer than we think.

I really hope this thread is wrong.

In 5 years, the Junior pipeline will be completely dry.

Seniors will be retiring.

Companies will be floundering.

We'll see a great correction where we need workers again.

Programmers/SE/etc... will be needed again. Always were needed, but at least managers will realize it again.

Everyone says Adapt.

Like, go be a farmer, Adapt? Reinvent yourself as a performance artist? Because, learn Java in 21 days, is kind of gone.

Not sure the technology is the issue here. He isn't debating using Java v C#, and one is a betrayal of all that is holy, so he refuses to use it.

I think everyone kind of feels that AI is sucking up all the content that we have all created collectively, and we all know that the bell is tolling for thee, no matter how much you adapt. So if you see friends being fed into a meat grinder, you can have a 'culture war' take on it. He's posting on line to vent, something everyone is venting about.

Of course, for a job, to get a paycheck, we'd use any technology, even if we are the ones running the meat grinder.

You aren't wrong.

But it is a sad state of affairs if you have to self-suppress you're freedoms to work. That is how freedom dies isn't it? Everyone fearful to speak or lose a job.

"Just shut up and code, have to get those gas chambers up and running themselves, so we can stick the rest of you lot into them."

It was an example.

I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job?

And, I'm pretty sure in "X" language, you can call them differently. Since it is "X", how do you know.

It's like the old saying "only 10% of my marketing budget is making a difference, I just don't know which 10%"

You don't know ahead of time, where the breakthrough will come from.

There is ton of research that sits on the shelf, and then years later, it gets re-combined with some other useless research, and boom, some big breakthrough.

This current attitude of all research is worthless, so it should be cancelled, is shooting our future selves in the face.

The shocking part of the story is the scale.

1.5 Million Users just within the Pentagon?

"The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025."

"The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute."

In order to usher in their Theocratic Dictatorship, they need to have an un-educated population. This is the start. I hope it takes a few generations and the tide can be turned. But at this rate, the US might end within the next couple years, not decades.

I don't think they are really even trying to hide it. Project 2025 was pretty obvious road map.