Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.

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The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...

Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues

Computational developments—particularly artificial intelligence—are reshaping social scientific research and raising new questions for in-depth methods such as ethnography and qualitative interviewing...

AI agents have been evaluated in isolation or within small groups, where interactions remain limited in scope and complexity. Large-scale simulations involving many autonomous agents -- reflecting the...

LLMs are widely regarded as alien intelligences, systems whose cognitive operations are fundamentally unlike our own. Apparent similarities to human cognition are therefore often seen as the result of...

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African communities have spent decades developing practical, tested ways to live with extreme heat.

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use.

Plus a nice cool CPI report

Increase recorded by OECD, with restrictions extending to lower-paid roles despite moves to curb clauses in some countries

State-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods train policies on imagined rollouts. These rollouts are trajectories generated by a learned dynamics model and are scored by a learned rewar...

Die Dorfkneipe macht dicht, Betriebe suchen vergeblich Nachfolger, junge Kreative agieren auf einem übersättigten Markt. Ausgerechnet Genossenschaften, oft als verstaubt belächelt, zeigen: Gemeinsam B...

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Capital is pouring into insurance because of high returns and low volatility. But some professionals are worried about mispricing

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

The Dissenter · Episode

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All modern language models sometimes act like they have emotions. What’s behind these behaviors? Our interpretability team investigates.

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Sony’s ‘Ace’ defeats elite players, highlighting how AI is improving machines’ abilities to interact with people

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(Chapter from Skin in the Game)

Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

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Why capitalism survives not just through repression, but through consent

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop

Despite the growing literature and widespread interest in transformational adaptation, its definition remains contested. The results of a global expert survey reveal broad agreement on 13 key elements...

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Abstract. There has always been a close relation between thermodynamic theory and sociological theory, although they repeatedly part company and later rejo

As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

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Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

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