*Isn't there a weird paradox here? If we can fully understand a thing, it probably isn't intelligent. But if we can't fully understand it, we might not be able to know that it's not tricking us with advanced mimicry...*

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The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking - Gary Marcus \ stacker news

"GPT-5 is a step forward but nowhere near the A.I. revolution many had expected. That is bad news for the companies and investors who placed substa...

😂 Bitcoin fixes wrench attacks *Men also can develop their intuition more too, so perhaps the wrench attackers will also be getting into meditation and telepathy. Then bitcoiners will also start meditating, hoping to develop the skills to become invisible to the telepathic wrench attackers* View quoted note →

Among LLMs 🤣 *all the AI agents share one common goal -- determine and eliminate the human, through voting. Your mission: stay hidden, manipulate conversations, and turn the bots against each other with edits, whispers, impersonations, and clever gaslighting. Outlast everyone, turn chaos to your advantage, and make it to the final two.*

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GitHub - 0xd3ba/among-llms: You are the only impostor. One wrong word and they'll tear you apart.

You are the only impostor. One wrong word and they'll tear you apart. - 0xd3ba/among-llms

*the team found significant fluctuation in gene variants, known as alleles, even in stable conditions, a strategy that could possibly increase the ability to adapt to changing environments while also maintaining genetic variation*

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An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*Across a 10-year span, the study analyzed the genetic variance of D. pulex in a stable environment. The study showed that the organisms experienced changing selection pressures, but that they all eventually canceled out, meaning no dominant trait took over and influenced the organism’s evolution. In other words, this shows that evolution works on a level much more subtle than what scientists previously believed.*

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An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*the scientists note that genes located on chromosomes near each other evolved in coordination with each other. This could cause beneficial combinations of gene variants to be inherited, thereby speeding up adaptation to the environment around them*

Popular Mechanics

An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*the scientists note that genes located on chromosomes near each other evolved in coordination with each other. This could cause beneficial combinations of gene variants to be inherited, thereby speeding up adaptation to the environment around them*

Popular Mechanics

An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*"You can't have [a] nothing burger without word salad"*

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"You can't have nothing burger without word salad". TL;DR Run Bitcoin Knots https://bitcoinknots.org/ if you like. [1 comment]

*The concept of people acting against their own long-term interests becomes very obvious when you start asking: - "If the default were the opposite, what % of people would still end up here?" - If the answer is "probably <30%", the current outcome is default-driven, not preference-driven.* View quoted note →

*The antidote isn't stronger opinions; it's stronger defaults and pre-committed rules. Read the incentives; expect the behavior; position ahead of it.* View quoted note →

*People don't "fail" because they don't know; they fail because the environment pays them to fail now and bill them later - in cash, status, and belonging* View quoted note →

*How to consistently pick long-term: - Automate the boring: savings, skills, sleep, strength, deep work. - Deliberately add friction to bad paths. - Make identity explicit: tie your reputation to long-term behaviors* View quoted note →

*How to tell if you're acting against your own long-term interest: - If the benefit is now and the cost is later, assume you're under-pricing the cost. - If a choice preserves belonging, assume you're over-weighting identity. - If the platform chose the default, assume it benefits them more than you. - If the metric is public, assume it's being gamed (by you or to you). - If a habit depends on willpower, assume it will fail under stress.* View quoted note →

*Social risk > factual risk. Getting ostracized today feels worse than being wrong in five years* View quoted note →

*Compartmentalization. Professional intelligence ≠ incentive literacy. People who model markets still miss their own behavioral accounting* View quoted note →

*Meta-incentives dominate beliefs. Even smart people first decide what benefits them (status, income, network), then craft rationalizations* View quoted note →

*Feedback loops (what reinforces) - Immediate reinforcement (likes, payouts, relief) rewires habit faster than distant outcomes* View quoted note →

*Narrative & identity (what feels right) - People protect self-image and in-group membership even when facts conflict (identity-protective cognition). The story that preserves belonging wins over the truth that threatens it* View quoted note →

*Defaults & frictions (what's easiest) - Behavior follows lowest-friction paths. Defaults, one-click choices, and pre-checked boxes beat sermons. Tiny frictions shift billions of decisions* View quoted note →

*Incentive gradients (what pays now) - People follow net-effort -> net-reward gradients, not ideals. If the reward is near-term, visible, and certain - while the cost is delayed, abstract, and probabilistic - behavior will skew short-term every time* View quoted note →