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Christopher Payne retweeted
Sound ON! 🔊
#OnThisDay in 2005 🗓️
One of the great balls 🙌
Christopher Payne retweeted
Agreed.
".. probably the greatest criminal fraud ever perpetrated on the people of England & Wales"
@Feargal_Sharkey on the privatised water industry.
The solution is simple. Prosecute the bosses, fine the companies into bankruptcy & take our water back.
Christopher Payne retweeted
Argentina cheated their way thru the WC, now throwing punches after the final whistle. What a waste of talent and a dire example to the world's young players 🤮💩🇦🇷
Christopher Payne retweeted
Argentina 🇦🇷 this World Cup:
➡️ ONLY team not to have a single VAR intervention against them
➡️ Most - fouls of ANY team
➡️ 0 Red Cards
➡️ Most - Pens awarded
➡️ Most - opponents goals disallowed
➡️ Most - opponents yellow cards
➡️ Least - travel distance
VIVA ESPANA 🇪🇸
Christopher Payne retweeted
🚀 Linking Your AI is now LIVE on @ProductHunt (link below)
It's time to stop getting trapped by AI companies wanting to lock all of your skills, prompts, and conversations in their app.
I own my AI assistant.
Here's to digital sovereignty! 👑
Christopher Payne retweeted
He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Christopher Payne retweeted
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
Christopher Payne retweeted
The Trump surrender of Ukraine descends into utter chaos. But “chaos” is too mellow a word: What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder. Words have a hard time keeping up with the story. But we’ll try.
open.substack.com/pub/charli…
Since @Leonardo_Hotels took over the Marriott Forum hotel in Barcelona, experience booking and checking in is far worse. Puts me right off this chain.
Christopher Payne retweeted
🔥 MIT just exposed every top AI model and it’s not pretty.
They built a new test called WorldTest to see if AI actually understands the world… and the results are brutal.
It doesn’t just check how well a model predicts the next frame or maximizes reward it tests whether it can build an internal model of reality and use it to handle new situations.
They built AutumnBench 43 interactive worlds, 129 tasks where AIs must:
• Predict hidden parts of the world (masked-frame prediction)
• Plan sequences of actions to reach a goal
• Detect when the environment’s rules suddenly change
Then they tested 517 humans vs. Claude, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3.
Humans crushed every model. Even massive compute scaling barely helped.
The takeaway is wild.. today’s AIs don’t understand environments; they just pattern-match inside them.
They don’t explore strategically, revise beliefs, or run experiments like humans do.
WorldTest might be the first benchmark that actually measures understanding, not memorization.
The gap it reveals isn’t small it’s the next grand challenge in AI cognition.
(Comment “Send” I’ll DM you the paper)
Christopher Payne retweeted
WHAT A SPECIAL FINISH ⭐️
Fitzpatrick & Hatton close out in style!
#TeamEurope | #OurTimeOurPlace
Christopher Payne retweeted
Hard not to enjoy the #Rydercup. The Europeans like one another, laugh a lot, play beautiful golf. The Americans have a witless crowd, boring chants, no team spirit and offer nothing but just a bit of shouty jingoism.
Christopher Payne retweeted
"The Guardian view on the water industry: a return to public ownership should still be on the table."
There is an all pervasive stench within Ofwat, Defra and the Treasury of small state / non interventionist thinking, it is costing and will continue to cost water bill payers billions.
The market is not going to provide on this occasion and to think so is delusional.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
