2025-07-07

Public anti-AI sentiment can be useful: three mechanisms

Published on July 7, 2025 7:05 PM GMTThe American public hates AI.That -18% sentiment puts AI somewhere between fracking (-9%) and race-aware college admissions (-23%).[1]When asked about AI, Americans worry...

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2 months ago

Grok Makes Bizarre Post About Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein and It Mysteriously Gets Deleted

Elon Musk and his chatbot Grok have merged into a single entity. Related: Musk is also innocent of any crimes you may accuse him of. On Sunday, the X-integrated AI...

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2 months ago

Polymarket Gamblers Go to War Over Whether Zelenskyy Wore a Suit

More than $160 million in crypto is riding on the definition of 'suit.'

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2 months ago

Quoting Aphyr

I strongly suspect that Market Research Future, or a subcontractor, is conducting an automated spam campaign which uses a Large Language Model to evaluate a Mastodon instance, submit a plausible...

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2 months ago

$AIN Expands To 7 DEXs As AI Network Activates Omnichain AI Economy

$AIN will be listed on the following DEXs and chains. The rollout is part of a broader roadmap to build an interconnected agent ecosystem powered by LayerZero’s omnichain messaging.

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2 months ago

NEXST Launches Web3 VR Entertainment Platform with K-Pop Group UNIS as First Global Partner

NEXST is a next-generation AI-driven entertainment platform. NEXST VR LIVE is a dedicated division focused on creating immersive XR experiences using Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality...

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2 months ago

Against "Brain Damage"

AI can help, or hurt, our thinking

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2 months ago

GUNZ Announces $GUN Token Expansion To Solana

$GUN token lands on Solana, bringing lightning-fast access and next-gen infrastructure to a whole new wave of gamers and community members. $GUN is an in-game utility asset. It has not...

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2 months ago

Literature Review: Risks of MDMA

Published on July 7, 2025 7:01 PM GMTNote: This post is 7 years old, so it's both out of date and written by someone less skilled than 2025!Elizabeth. I wish...

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‘F1’ Is Doing Well at the Box Office, and Is Now Already Apple’s Top-Grossing Theatrical Film

Rebecca Rubin, reporting for Variety: When it comes to Apple’s biggest films, F1: The Movie has officially moved to pole position. I will allow this pun. F1 has generated $293...

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2 months ago

Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison's llm tool

Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison's llm tool Christopher Smith ran a mini hackathon in Albany New York at the weekend around uses of my LLM - the first...

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2 months ago

The Untold Story of Google Earth

How a 3D mirror of our world became an accidental time machine—and what happens when it starts to predict our future. 🌎→🔮

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2 months ago

Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

Artificial intelligence use has been associated with everything from fear of judgement and loneliness to misogyny and illiteracy — and now, researchers are saying it may be linked to some...

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2 months ago

★ Full-Screen Ad for ‘F1 The Movie’ in Apple’s TV App Linked Directly to the Web, and Nothing Bad Seemed to Happen

I can see the argument that Apple’s answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing for many users”. But I can’t see the argument that the answer is “Yes, it’s potentially confusing...

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2 months ago

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, June '25

Published on July 7, 2025 6:17 PM GMTtl;drPaper of the month:Emergent misalignment arises across many models when training on incorrect data and is largely driven by a single "toxic persona"...

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2 months ago

You Can't Objectively Compare Seven Bees to One Human

Published on July 7, 2025 6:11 PM GMTOne thing I've been quietly festering about for a year or so is the Rethink Priorities Welfare Range Report. It gets dunked on...

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2 months ago

Emergent 2.0

World's first agentic vibe-coding platform Discussion | Link

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2 months ago

Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson

Clocking in at almost an hour, this “definitive interview” with Wes Anderson by Vanity Fair about all 12 of his films is perhaps only for Wes stans or cinephiles, but...

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2 months ago

📢 1.104 is rolling out with new ways to personalize your notifications! • Activity Notificatio

📢 1.104 is rolling out with new ways to personalize your notifications! • Activity Notifications: Get push alerts from your favorite accounts • Repost Notifications: See when someone likes or...

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