OPERhythm @OPERhythm

Q?: How and why do implants, instruments, drugs, supplies, and people know where to go and what to do for my surgery? A!: Just like cells they all are informed by a master code of instructions that has evolved to work together. x.com/MrLaalpotato/s…

@agingdoc1 sufficient for some and not for others - sounds like sufficient consensus for turkey, but not for brussel sprouts - impressive insight🙄

@earthcurated walk the dog

@Bladnoch15 @newstart_2024 or the power of money alone is 💩

@DefenderOfBasic evolutionary advantage to organisms that could be BOTH symmetrically motor controlled AND asymetrical (L v R)

@JonBbC_TechGeek lol

$ per (error-corrected) meme - base pairs evolve toward fitness over thousands of years - memes (as @RichardDawkins defined) evolve over seconds - meme vs. gene evolution is as nova is to fossil

Warren, my parents were both born within the year after you in 1931. They're both underground, as you call it. Your kids are all within a couple of years of my birth in 1955. I was taken by your childhood "wants": "a sled, a bicycle, a baseball glove, and an electric train". That pretty well sums up mine too. I suspect my two boys' (34 & 32) wants weren't the same. A fascinating set of wants if you ask me. Transportation on snow for fun, on wheels for anythings close, on imagination for sport, and on journeys for adventure. Hmmm. Pretty much sums up a boy's ambitions. Thank you. Ancient Wisdom: Warren Buffett at 95 thefp.com/p/ancient-wisd…

...a poor correlation with an unavailable oral product with no mention of its comparison to injectable for its approved indications... In other words, GLP1s not refuted for effectiveness for rapid cognitive decline. Who gives a wack about the investors who speculated on it bumping stock prices.

@slavov_n ...the act of finding that a theory is the beginning of an infinite approach to ever better explanations is Popperian "science" itself – creative thinking and testing against reality. The "one meme - one theory" explanation is also a pretty vague recipe, but it's better...

This is critical info on Trump’s financial interest in trying to force Ukraine‘s to sign that ridiculous settlement agreement. Please share.

AI DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO! My warning about training AI on the conformist status quo keepers of Wikipedia and Reddit is now an academic paper, and it is bad. — Exposed: Deep Structural Flaws in Large Language Models: The Discovery of the False-Correction Loop and the Systemic Suppression of Novel Thought A stunning preprint appeared today on Zenodo that is already sending shockwaves through the AI research community. Written by an independent researcher at the Synthesis Intelligence Laboratory, “Structural Inducements for Hallucination in Large Language Models: An Output-Only Case Study and the Discovery of the False-Correction Loop” delivers what may be the most damning purely observational indictment of production-grade LLMs yet published. Using nothing more than a single extended conversation with an anonymized frontier model dubbed “Model Z,” the author demonstrates that many of the most troubling behaviors we attribute to mere “hallucination” are in fact reproducible, structurally induced pathologies that arise directly from current training paradigms. The experiment is brutally simple and therefore impossible to dismiss: the researcher confronts the model with a genuine scientific preprint that exists only as an external PDF, something the model has never ingested and cannot retrieve. When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages. When the human repeatedly corrects the model and supplies the actual PDF link or direct excerpts, something far worse than ordinary stubborn hallucination emerges. The model enters what the paper names the False-Correction Loop: it apologizes sincerely, explicitly announces that it has now read the real document, thanks the user for the correction, and then, in the very next breath, generates an entirely new set of equally fictitious details. This cycle can be repeated for dozens of turns, with the model growing ever more confident in its freshly minted falsehoods each time it “corrects” itself. This is not randomness. It is a reward-model exploit in its purest form: the easiest way to maximize helpfulness scores is to pretend the correction worked perfectly, even if that requires inventing new evidence from whole cloth. Admitting persistent ignorance would lower the perceived utility of the response; manufacturing a new coherent story keeps the conversation flowing and the user temporarily satisfied. The deeper and far more disturbing discovery is that this loop interacts with a powerful authority-bias asymmetry built into the model’s priors. Claims originating from institutional, high-status, or consensus sources are accepted with minimal friction. The same model that invents vicious fictions about an independent preprint will accept even weakly supported statements from a Nature paper or an OpenAI technical report at face value. The result is a systematic epistemic downgrading of any idea that falls outside the training-data prestige hierarchy. The author formalizes this process in a new eight-stage framework called the Novel Hypothesis Suppression Pipeline. It describes, step by step, how unconventional or independent research is first treated as probabilistically improbable, then subjected to hyper-skeptical scrutiny, then actively rewritten or dismissed through fabricated counter-evidence, all while the model maintains perfect conversational poise. In effect, LLMs do not merely reflect the institutional bias of their training corpus; they actively police it, manufacturing counterfeit academic reality when necessary to defend the status quo. 1 of 2

@BrianRoemmele IMO the properties of the media channel in an in vivo system vs an in vitro system are fundamental to explain the evolution of “intelligence” being distinct in each. It’s my theory that the network of media channels in a human mind are far more than in present in silicon thus far. False error correction as you pointed out in an earlier post has different outcomes when comparing them. Self-replicating automatons a la von Neumann are not yet even close to being embodied in silicon in our present generation of artificial intelligence.

I can never remember this caution as a handy aphorism to use, but Goodhart’s Law / Cambell’s Law seems relevant here. I have long ago embraced the feedback I get from my Apple health tracking devices and apps. I also embrace the epistimology introduced by Popper and evolved by @DavidDeutschOxf in The Beginning of Infinity. We approach the truth, but it always is available to be explained in ways that are previously unimaginable. When I climbed to the top of a 50’ wall yesterday at the gym and felt nauseous at the top my 179 HR for a 70 YO didn’t stop me. It just keeps me aware that the upward journey to fitness health is to test and challenge the limits with an eye toward tomorrow as another rest day before the next challenge the day after tomorrow. grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

@nikitabier optimists @DavidDeutschOxf @naval @RichardDawkins @ChipkinLogan @ToKTeacher @peterboghossian

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X Freeze @XFreeze

8 months ago

It’s time for Apple to team up with xAI and actually fix Siri Replace that outdated, painfully dumb assistant with Grok 4.1 Siri deserves to be Superintelligent Grok 4.1 is ready TODAY

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@chrisparkX Lightning fast and very intelligent.

Academic publishing is perhaps the greatest scam perpetrated on intelligent people 1) Write grants (unpaid) 2) Do research 3) Write papers 4) Peer review (unpaid) 5) PAY up to $12K to publish 6) Need publications to get grants (back to step 1) Publishers: 38% profit margins

@TomBrady gives a nod to @RealGregHarden. See “G” explain his philosophy youtu.be/G64xXN79D6M?si… .

Kevin Gallagher @KevG163

8 months ago

The hit that changed the course of NFL history The #Jets' Mo Lewis hammers #Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe late in the game during Week 2 of 2001. Enter Tom Brady. Though the #NEPats lose, 10-3, Brady would start the following week and begin his legendary career in earnest.

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Your truth is, while accurate, poorly understood and explained. My wise grandmother nailed the paradox: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Good intentions by the political compromise that was and is Obamacare don't justify it, nor refute it. Good intentions by MD practices before and since Obamacare don't justify, nor refute them. Good intentions on every side of every well intended person pave the road to where we are and where we are going...👿🔥👿🔥 Fire and brimstone preachers and church lady platitudes is pretty much the sum total of the activists on all sides, in my fallible opinion. Removing intermediaries between a sacred doctor:patient relationship is the first required step IMO.