I know the dust has well and truly settled but the freak out at OpenAI for their math bomb feels unfair given the counterfactual of hundreds of anonymous GPT-7 token arsonists dumping .pdfs of NS on arXiv and X in December 2026
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「🫵」の絵文字が2021年に追加されたときの提案書は公開されていて、「従来の矢印は二次元に制約されていた」「第3次元のz軸方向へと届く能力により『文脈外指示』（exophoric reference）が可能な、初めての絵文字となる」みたいな謎に説得力のある主張がなされている
unicode.org/L2/L2020/20212-i…
ALT 提案書の「Breaking new ground」の節のスクリーンショット Yes! All existing deictic emoji ☝️👆👇👈👉 ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️↗️↘️↙️↖️↪️↩️⤴️⤵️🔄🔃🔚🔙🔛🔝🔜 are primarily endophoric, i.e. they can mainly refer to language (words, images or other emoji) inside the text in which they are found.¹¹ That was a technical limitation, because those signs were acting between the x and y axes in a constrained two-dimensional space. This candidate emoji will add to the deictic set the capacity to reach the z-axis of the third dimension, making it the first of all to be capable of exophoric reference, i.e. to refer to something that is not inside the text. Exophoric references are a little bit difficult to be done visually, and the INDEX POINTING AT THE VIEWER is one of few possibilities available.
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alexandr wang looks like the product of a generations-long effort by some far-future bene gesserit clan to re-derive the modal attendee of a selective high school in sydney in the year 2018 from first principles.
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
00:07:28 The model is the product
00:14:35 Muse Wonder
00:24:56 How frontier models are built
00:48:26 Betting $100B
01:07:21 Agentic commerce
01:19:34 OpenRouter
01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
01:27:00 Funding
01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
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Lucky coincidence the labs are only successfully cracking esoteric math problems and not the problems where a solution would give the winner an asymmetric commerical advantage.
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The thing I learned this year is that when engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't. What they like is puzzle solving, and having a repertoire of patterns that they can pattern match onto traditionally hard problems, usually involving databases or something with scale, etc. And they know that the industry used to pay you a lot for how deep and broad this repertoire was. Unfortunately, in 2026, well, you have a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching. So the question is, do you actually like hard problems? Because there are now hard problems that are a complection of engineering, product, society, culture, politics, and they are fairly intractable, probably unsolvable! Because if you do want to work on those actually hard problems, there is so much money that people will pay you for it. But you’ll have to face that truth about yourself first.
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Good AI policy: "contributors are free to use whatever AI tools they wish when contributing to mycelium and associated projects, but in order to have your PRs merged, you have to be able to *trick me* into believing it was written by a human being."
with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/mycelium/co…
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
I'm not sure if Halo Studios getting blown up at the exact same moment in time that the Infinite Decompilation Machine gets really good is cosmic irony or a clear example of cause and effect