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Even then, I’m skeptical because every time the AI community has tried to cross the chasm from the digital world to the real world, they’ve run into 10,000 problems that they thought were paper cuts but, in sum, add up to you losing all the blood in your body. I think we’ve seen this with…

What happens when norms break down? When individualism gradually erodes the ties that bind us? What happens when thousands of people collectively cross the line? Nothing, of course. The line simply moves. The crowd, emboldened and empowered, sizes up its next meal. At the temple of mass consumerism, the customer is always right. And in…

I suspect that the opaque feeling in my head can also be traced to a craven instinct: it’s easier to retreat from the concept of reality than to acknowledge that the things in the news are real. — Read on www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-broke

The Messi comparisons don’t really go anywhere at this stage. But they have two obvious things in common. First, the relationship with the ball, the ability to make it come alive and do weirdly personalised things. I was there in Munich last July when he decided to just stop in the middle of the most…

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…