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Run Your Own AI – AnthonyLewis.com — Read on anthonylewis.com/2025/06/01/run-your-own-ai/

the themes that people consider most important in their lives align with the fictional stories that they say most resonate with them, and the stories they choose to engage with also frequently mirror their identity. Some people easily engage with stories, while others find them meaningless. A lot of it seems to come down to…

Xenophobic and authoritarian politics draw their power from a fear of foreigners and strangers, an idea that the dangers they pose are already around us, needing to be identified and rooted out. But as Toni Morrison observed, such ideas often reflect “an uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging”.…

unsticking myself always seems to be a matter of finding a name for the thing happening to me. — Read on www.experimental-history.com/p/so-you-wanna-de-bog-yourself

making art is painful because it forces the mind to do something it’s not meant to do. If you really want to get that sentence right, if you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream. That level of precision is simply unnatural. There’s…

Over time, the fish goes extinct — an enormous, tragic loss — but no fisher experiences the full transition from abundance to desolation. No generation experiences the totality of the loss. It is doled out in portions, over time, no portion quite large enough to spur preventative action. By the time the fish go extinct,…

if suicide is a self-directed, injurious behaviour, how far can a person be judged to be self-directed when acting under the influence of a purposeful online community? And is a person really choosing freely, Walton asks, when algorithms, which continued to show Aimee content relating to self-harm, power a darkening circle of interest and exposure?…

Avec l’âge, chez l’être humain comme chez la souris, quelques cellules souches se mettent à proliférer de façon massive, écrasant la concurrence en produisant des myriades de cellules identiques. Quelques clones prennent ainsi progressivement le contrôle de la production sanguine – on parle d’« expansion clonale ». Qui plus est, ils produisent de préférence des cellules myéloïdes,…

Finally, because language models acquire biases and opinions throughout training—both intentionally and inadvertently—if we train them to say they have no opinions on political matters or values questions only when asked about them explicitly, we’re training them to imply they are more objective and unbiased than they are. We want people to know that they’re…

Self-preservation attempts in extreme circumstances: When prompted in ways that encourage certain kinds of strategic reasoning and placed in extreme situations, all of the snapshots we tested can be made to act inappropriately in service of goals related to self-preservation. Whereas the model generally prefers advancing its self-preservation via ethical means, when ethical means are…