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This is quite exciting.

An internal version of Astra, OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science.

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2083467194663571701?s=46

Deli meats are my guilty pleasure. I’ve basically eaten them for lunch every day since I was five.

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@bernard Are you a vegetarian or just not a steak eater?

That’s sad. I too lost a cousin though well into the pandemic. My sister’s best friend died of “flu” in January 2020. Almost certainly it was Covid.

(Don’t take any of the above to indicate any support whatsoever for Rand Paul’s attempted show trial)

I agree he’s not the villain. Remember Trump gave him an award on his last day in office.

Public health officials are not blameless though. I had this to say next door. Fauci’s personal involvement varies over the four.

I don’t blame him for the evolving messaging as we learned more. I don’t blame him for recommending lockdowns, public health officials are by nature conservative.

I blame him and other public health officials for four things, which ultimately hurt them and their credibility.

1. The proximal origins paper and the actions around it which seem to have been designed to stigmatize even the discussion of a lab leak origin.

2. The ‘regulatory bank shots’ where they tell you a lie so that you’ll behave in a way they want you to (eg early advice to not buy masks which they later reversed when supply chains recovered)

3. The exceptions to Covid restrictions granted for approved political purposes. That ruined their credibility for a generation.

4. The attempts, only partially thwarted, to prioritize certain races in vaccine distribution even at the cost of net higher deaths as long as those deaths occurred among less favored races.

Obviously early days and meaningless 2 years out, but I found it interesting all the same. Buttigieg’s biggest demographic problem in 2020 was among black voters.

https://x.com/yashar/status/2083655505830908004?s=46

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Oddly, and off topic, I didn’t know who he was yesterday but this is the second reference to him I’ve seen today.

He broke with Mamdani over the release of names and addresses of everyone subject to pied a terre taxes in NY (which includes him).

His line “He took what was a good source of revenue and turned it into a wanted poster”.

Sam Harris puts this more pithily. You didn’t choose your genes and you didn’t choose your environment- it’s luck all the way down.

Zoom in on that face. You can see the 65 year old Churchill, plain as day.

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I wonder what kind of credit monitoring and/or collateral requirements Anthropic has. In theory a tiny company worth less than 1MM could run up such a tab and they’d never get paid.