I don't know who Paul is and I'm afraid to ask...

Interesting:

The Verge

What happens when you feed AI nothing

No inputs, no influences.

Pushback paper on that Apple reasoning paper: “When we control for these experimental artifacts, by requesting generating functions instead of exhaustive move lists, preliminary experiments across multiple models indicate high accuracy on Tower of Hanoi instances previously reported as complete failures. These findings highlight the importance of careful experimental design when evaluating AI reasoning capabilities.”

The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking A Comment on Shojaee et al. (2025)

Vibe coding/debugging is not just about building--also for: -Writing test cases -Converting code - e.g, Perl to Swift. -Learning about an existing code base -UI Language Translations -Learning new programming languages (old dog, new tricks) -Other?

Someday we might transmit ecash by tapping our fingers or rapping a tune. Stop that.

Interesting project:

Causal Claims

As economics scales with AI, a key bottleneck is evidence synthesis in a comparable, aggregable form We created an evidence‑annotated claim graph...

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”-Marcus Aurelius

Appreciate all the people still here for censorship-resistant money….

“We demonstrate that GPT-4o displays behaviors consistent with cognitive dissonance, a deep and not always rational feature of human cognition.” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501823122

Reminder: “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws have privacy” - Phil Zimmerman

Courageous journalism(good read) :

PenguinRandomhouse.com

Bad News by Anjan Sundaram: 9781101872154 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In 2009, Anjan Sundaram began a journalist's training program in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Often held up as a beacon of progress and mode...

“AI should serve freedom not tyranny” - Oslo Freedom Forum

Tears for Fears was right …

… a dev using AI --and MCP servers--will eventually take your job….

If you are traveling next week to Bitcoin conferences, practice good OpSec. Also, just practice good OpSec. (Lots of resources out there).

The young men and very old men in my family fade LLMs, even for IT and coding… The young girls and women are like “I can get more shit done”, on many, many things and also including IT and coding