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it's obvious why there's a wittgenstein cult and a heidegger cult but htf is there a popper cult
June 21, 2023 at 1:07 PM
it's obvious why there's a wittgenstein cult and a heidegger cult but htf is there a popper cult
Various new posts from the last couple months:
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Various new posts from the last couple months:
GPT-5 numbers:
* HCAST/RE-Bench 50%: +25% rel, to 2h17m, SOTA
* HCAST/RE-Bench 80%: +25% rel, to 25mins, SOTA
* (Tier 1-3) FrontierMath: +5% abs, SOTA
* SWE-Bench Verified: same as Claude 4.1
* <1% improvement on other coding benchmarks
* Aider: +3% abs, SOTA
* Cost/perf: seems much worse
* HCAST/RE-Bench 50%: +25% rel, to 2h17m, SOTA
* HCAST/RE-Bench 80%: +25% rel, to 25mins, SOTA
* (Tier 1-3) FrontierMath: +5% abs, SOTA
* SWE-Bench Verified: same as Claude 4.1
* <1% improvement on other coding benchmarks
* Aider: +3% abs, SOTA
* Cost/perf: seems much worse
August 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
GPT-5 numbers:
* HCAST/RE-Bench 50%: +25% rel, to 2h17m, SOTA
* HCAST/RE-Bench 80%: +25% rel, to 25mins, SOTA
* (Tier 1-3) FrontierMath: +5% abs, SOTA
* SWE-Bench Verified: same as Claude 4.1
* <1% improvement on other coding benchmarks
* Aider: +3% abs, SOTA
* Cost/perf: seems much worse
* HCAST/RE-Bench 50%: +25% rel, to 2h17m, SOTA
* HCAST/RE-Bench 80%: +25% rel, to 25mins, SOTA
* (Tier 1-3) FrontierMath: +5% abs, SOTA
* SWE-Bench Verified: same as Claude 4.1
* <1% improvement on other coding benchmarks
* Aider: +3% abs, SOTA
* Cost/perf: seems much worse
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More on Cremeux cherry-picking data to support his claims and generally operating in bad faith (H/T Ozy Brennan)
lexerlux.substack.com/p/another-cr...
lexerlux.substack.com/p/another-cr...
Unpublished Article on Dumb Minor Crémieux Drama
A place for anything and everything that goes through my head.
lexerlux.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
More on Cremeux cherry-picking data to support his claims and generally operating in bad faith (H/T Ozy Brennan)
lexerlux.substack.com/p/another-cr...
lexerlux.substack.com/p/another-cr...
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I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. (1/5)
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
scottaaronson.blog
August 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. (1/5)
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
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the scenario we all feared
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the scenario we all feared
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Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.
August 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.
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I read the article you shared and it says exactly what Alec describes.
August 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I read the article you shared and it says exactly what Alec describes.
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You might not like how they're characterising this (fair enough) but it seems to be true that the wind farm had to cease operation for purely procedural reasons.
August 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
You might not like how they're characterising this (fair enough) but it seems to be true that the wind farm had to cease operation for purely procedural reasons.
New paper out, with one Arb author:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
LLMs consistently prefer LLM text. This maybe implies future AIs discriminating against humans as a class.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
LLMs consistently prefer LLM text. This maybe implies future AIs discriminating against humans as a class.
July 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New paper out, with one Arb author:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
LLMs consistently prefer LLM text. This maybe implies future AIs discriminating against humans as a class.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
LLMs consistently prefer LLM text. This maybe implies future AIs discriminating against humans as a class.
new tagline for the ol' firm
July 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
new tagline for the ol' firm
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Happy Sunday here is the essay!
The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it.
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it.
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
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Birth and death, the interregnum; Ayşegül Savaş, Shakespeare, Twombly, Lacan; zen buddhism, the body, the erotic, sacrifice, names, being transgender; Something has got to be done!
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Happy Sunday here is the essay!
The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it.
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it.
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
PSA: The new Snapdragon chips are amazing and Ubuntu finally works on them
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/faq-ubuntu...
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/faq-ubuntu...
FAQ: Ubuntu 25.04 on Snapdragon X Elite
Does Ubuntu 25.04 work on Snapdragon X Elite laptops? Most devices that have only worked with the Ubuntu Concept 24.10 ISO up to this point can now also be installed with the new generic Ubuntu 25.04 ...
discourse.ubuntu.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
PSA: The new Snapdragon chips are amazing and Ubuntu finally works on them
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/faq-ubuntu...
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/faq-ubuntu...
"Urchin" is an amazing name for a marketing tracker which makes links uglier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_...
Urchin (software) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"Urchin" is an amazing name for a marketing tracker which makes links uglier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_...
"a practical man is a man who practises the blunders of his predecessors."
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"a practical man is a man who practises the blunders of his predecessors."
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42RJvf1NzFwPJLtP0Vb8Eh?si=ce975e268da54655
t.co
May 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
November 10, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.