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Musk and co should ask AI what defines intelligence. They may learn something

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/musk-and-co-should-ask-an-ai-what-defines-intelligence-they-may-learn-something
8•almost-exactly•6h ago

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bell-cot•6h ago
Misleading headline - but after a few para's, the article pretty much admits that Musk & Co.'s actual "AI" goals are keeping their giant egos on top of the white-hot hype heap, and keeping their $billions flowing. Either credibly defining intelligence, or focusing on building something that qualifies, would run contrary to those goals.
bgwalter•6h ago
Also, xAI bought X:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/elon-musk...

And now xAI gets refinancing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/elon-musk-xai-raises-10-bill...

The Saudi investors who lost a lot of money on X still believe in Musk's "AI" efforts, at least in public (see Tucker Carlson interview with one of the princes). So it's better to keep up the hype and sell them additional GPU data centers.

unyttigfjelltol•6h ago
Yes, LLMs provide a voice to the library. They transform a collection of written works a living, breathing thing. To go further-- a high-quality collection of works expresses general intelligence, and the LLM converts this into a dynamic general intelligence. It's not quite artificial because, after all, it's a library of writings created by natural intelligence, but the result most certainly is dynamic and interesting.

Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
475•gasull•6h ago•126 comments

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
137•diggan•7h ago•27 comments

Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery

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13•littlexsparkee•2h ago•5 comments

Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947)

https://toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947/
27•gscott•3d ago•1 comments

Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-05/holding-your-cell-to-navigate-while-driving-is-illegal-court-says
26•firefoxd•58m ago•21 comments

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58•tudorg•4h ago•7 comments

macOS Icon History

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67•ksec•6h ago•20 comments

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
170•weinzierl•3d ago•33 comments

The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-reasons-to-avoid-amazon
70•DanAtC•1h ago•15 comments

The Moat of Low Status

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/learn-to-love-the-moat-of-low-status
318•jger15•3d ago•130 comments

Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing

https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/
24•mw_1•3d ago•4 comments

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69•divbzero•3h ago•35 comments

Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03727-9
24•bookofjoe•2h ago•5 comments

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

https://www.gecode.org/
56•gjvc•12h ago•13 comments

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

https://nautil.us/is-it-cake-how-our-brain-deciphers-materials-1222193/
9•dnetesn•2d ago•2 comments

Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/build-systems.pdf
63•djoldman•3d ago•14 comments

Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

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5•dionhaefner•2d ago•0 comments

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

https://evjang.com/2021/10/23/generalization.html
29•jxmorris12•2d ago•3 comments

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23•exvi•3d ago•2 comments

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87•jimhi•3h ago•72 comments

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

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103•bookofjoe•2d ago•36 comments

QSBS Limits Raised

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40•tomasreimers•10h ago•17 comments

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html
4•Bogdanp•4h ago•0 comments

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

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618•alihm•1d ago•179 comments

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)

https://backlit.neocities.org/incapacitate-google-tag-manager
206•fsflover•1d ago•143 comments

Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/im-losing-all-trust-in-the-ai-industry
148•baylearn•11h ago•161 comments

Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin]

https://hi.telli.com/join-us
1•sebselassie•14h ago

Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/418849/heart-attack-deaths-cardiovascular-disease-progress-medicine
63•lr0•6h ago•58 comments

EverQuest

https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/
260•dmazin•1d ago•147 comments

A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

https://initcoder.com/posts/37-year-old-learning-cs/
130•chbkall•12h ago•127 comments