"There's nothing special about Musk, Altman, or Zuckerberg. Accepting that requires you to also accept that the world itself is not one that rewards the remarkable, or the brilliant, or the truly incredible, but those who are able to take advantage of opportunities, which in turn leads to the horrible truth that those who often have the most opportunities are some of the most boring and privileged people alive."

-Ed Zitron, You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars
https://www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest

Irrelevant red herrings lead to "catastrophic" failure of logical inference.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llms-cant-perform-genuine-logical-reasoning-apple-researchers-suggest/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A primer for people who are wondering how a movement that claims to be all about law and order could be led by a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated rapist:

For fascists, "law and order" means "the law is whatever we order."

I am old. #oldschool

Reportingly the ‘Success kid’ turned 18 today.

#memes

Did this affair with a candidate whose campaign was based largely on Biden’s ostensible unfitness for office coincide with her big splashy NYMag piece about Biden’s ostensible unfitness for office?

https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine
#media #rfkjr #OliviaNuzzi #Election2024

"Don't turn your scientific writing over to a barely disguised markov chain in a trenchcoat", they said. "It will create a replicability crisis of a magnitude that will gently nudge psychology into the role of being a contextual footnote", they said

They were right