Jacob Aron
@jjaron
Senior editor at New Scientist
If we end up solving the Riemann Hypothesis by telling a computer "bro, believe in yourself" then I might have to go live in a hole www.anthropic.com/research/rie...
The UK population is forecast to start plateauing in the 2050s. We'll need to get used to there just not being as many young people around
What happens when AI slop - even formally verified AI slop - enters the world of mathematics? Great question raised by this excellent piece from @sparkes.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2533...
Not what I expected, I think my attempt at nuance just cancelled out bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
I was really expecting it to be more. I'm not sure I'm rushing to buy one but I'm definitely still interested
To understand the scale of the problem, if you zoom in and squint you can see the tiny dip from shutting down the entire world during the covid lockdowns
Today, limiting warming to 1.5C is cliff-edge impossible (the purple lines). Starting in 2006 (the highlighted yellow line) would have merely been hard.
Interesting use of "similar" here to mean "completely and utterly different". The tech for accurate age estimation doesn't exist, there is always an error range which is particularly problematic when you are trying to enforce a boundary. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Wait is it possible that BlueSky won't be included in the ban? Absolutely hilarious if true
One of these days I will have to admit I'm simply never going to listen to all the podcasts I have subscribed to
I've just discovered that robot window cleaners exist, and forget AI, surely this what the future feels like?
I'm less confident than Chiang that consciousness requires a body. I don't think he's wrong necessarily, I just don't have any evidence to guide me either way
This is such a good way of putting it - believing that an LLM is conscious is just falling for a text-based deepfake
Ted Chiang being excellent on AI, as always www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Another one. These people must be driven out of polite society before it is too late www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Incredible piece, but it needs to be said explicitly: these people are dangerous eugenicists. They want the "wrong" people to be exterminated and replaced by AI. That's abhorrent and you can't pretend otherwise.
Looking at remortgaging and just alternating between staring at the interest rates and staring into the middle distance. Previous mortgage was at the exact perfect time (see red error) so all choices seem bad. Tempted by a tracker but not sure rates will continue to come down...
The fact that Blair thinks this is a genuine dichotomy, when in reality renewables have never been cheaper and fossil fuels are increasingly expensive, suggests he really isn't paying attention institute.global/insights/pol...
Excellent. Can't remember the last time I laughed out loud so much reading a book. You probably do have to be a particular kind of middle-class parent to enjoy it, but thankfully I am