Author: robert.adlington

Low levels of openness to experience and high levels of conscientiousness, coupled with an insecure and threatening environment, lead people to chronically view the world as a dangerous and threatening place. When we think that the world is unstable and unsafe, we search for ways to regain control. Unfortunately for our democratic institutions, placing trust…

What’s particularly notable is that the AI’s response is actually more coherent than Trump’s — it maintains a more consistent narrative structure while hitting the same rhetorical points. This suggests that Trump’s responses are even less constrained by reality than a typical LLM’s output. This brings us to a curious disconnect: While the media obsesses…

I recognize that many of these communications are online, and thus they are “thinner” than many more local, face-to-face relationships. Yet I do end up meeting most of these people, and with great pleasure. That, in turn, enhances the quality of the online communications. And frankly, if forced to choose, I would rather have thinner…

My top choice for this kind of thing in 2025 is GitHub, using GitHub Pages. It’s free for public repositories and I haven’t seen GitHub break a working URL that they have hosted in the 17+ years since they first launched. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/28/give-it-away-for-free/

Scans of children’s brains McCrory has undertaken using functional magnetic resonance imaging have shown that “sustained exposure to abuse, including verbal abuse, leads to significant biological alterations in the brain’s structure and function”, he said. It can alter both the “threats” and “rewards” circuits in a child’s brain, which play a key role in helping…

« Jusqu’à maintenant, la FDA approuvait des thérapies contre le cancer en fonction de l’organe touché initialement, comme par exemple le poumon ou le sein », a expliqué le docteur Richard Pazdur, directeur par intérim des produits hématologiques et oncologiques au centre d’évaluation des médicaments de la FDA. « Nous avons désormais approuvé un traitement sur la base…

Avant de confier craindre l’avènement d’une société où les individus, las des risques et des responsabilités qu’implique l’engagement IRL, renonceraient massivement aux béguins, crushs et autres embrasements entre humains. Et cela au profit d’un compagnonnage numérique si réconfortant qu’il en devient d’ores et déjà, parfois, obsédant. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2025/04/26/la-digi-romance-ou-comment-tomber-amoureux-d-une-ia-ca-a-commence-comme-une-blague-avant-de-devenir-serieux_6600194_4497916.html

Chaque année, plus de 20 millions de nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués à travers la planète, rapporte l’Organisation mondiale de la santé. Avec un décès sur six qui lui est attribué, le cancer est ainsi la deuxième cause de mortalité dans le monde, derrière les maladies cardiovasculaires. En France, c’est même l’ennemi public numéro un, 25 % des…

In any case, you could not do “one shot” with the oracle — you had to put a bit of effort into it.  If you simply approached them and asked for a prophecy of the future (and did nothing else) you would get no meaningful response.  In contemporary terminology, you needed a bit of prompting.…

we don’t know why, but we have tried to talk separately, but it’s not ourselves, it’s not us — Read on kottke.org/25/04/twins-speaking-twins-speaking-in-unison-in-unison