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OpenAI's Sebastian Bubeck: Early Science Acceleration Experiments With Gpt-5 | "Today 'OpenAI for Science' Is Releasing Its First Paper Describing Some Really Cool Uses Of AI Across The Sciences Including *Novel Results* That My Math, Bio, & Physics Colleagues Derived Using Gpt-5 Pro"

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"...frontier models like GPT-5 are increasingly able to accelerate novel research. We highlighted examples across a range of scientific disciplines showing GPT-5 assisting in ideation, powering deep literature search, and even proposing and implementing proofs of (appropriately-sized) open problems. None of this would have been possible just twelve months ago. The fact that GPT-5 is already showing it can accelerate scientific research, combined with the rate of improvement of frontier AI, suggests that the coming years will be an exhilarating time in science and mathematics."

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/4a25f921-e4e0-479a-9b38-5367b47e8fd0/early-science-acceleration-experiments-with-gpt-5.pdf

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Films That Feel Like Secret Dawn Lovers

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Not dawn, but I love watching Downfall (2004) at around 2am.

There's environmental mirroring going on here, syncing the silence of your room with the claustrophobia of the subterranean bunker, effectively trapping you in that concrete box with them.

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thoughts on what is happening? resonance? telepathy?

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Your response reminded me of that old joke...

Dear Walter,

I hope you can help me here. The other day, I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't driven more than a mile down the road when the engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help.

When I got home I couldn't believe my eyes. He was in our bedroom with the neighbours daughter. I am 32, my husband is 34, and the neighbours daughter is 22. We have been married for ten years. When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that they had been having an affair for the past six months.

I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was sacked from his job six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. He won't go to counselling and I'm afraid I can't get through to him anymore.

Can you please help?

Sincerely, Sheila

Dear Sheila:

A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a variety of faults with the engine. Start by checking that there is no dirt in the fuel line. If it is clear, check the vacuum pipes and hoses on the intake manifold and also check all grounding wires. If none of these approaches solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty, causing low delivery pressure to the injectors.

I hope this helps.

Walter.

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Love it.

I hope we get a bit more than 1sqm.

2m × 2m × 2m = 8m³

Then we get to lie down, stand up, get on the treadmill, move around...

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From Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b:

Socrates: [274c] I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who [274d] invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters. 

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved [274e] or disapproved.  

"The story goes that Thamus said many things to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts, which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to the letters, [274e] “This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.” But Thamus replied, “Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; [275a] and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.  

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem [275b] to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise." 

Original source (Tufts): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0174%3Atext%3DPhaedrus%3Apage%3D275

Quote: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439 or https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing

Quoted by Matt Mullenweg: https://ma.tt/2015/07/plato-phaedrus/

Quoted by the smartest man in the world, Terence Tao: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114179220511702041

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201427

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Wojciech Zaremba: "It’s rare for competitors to collaborate. Yet that’s exactly what OpenAI and @AnthropicAI just did—by testing each other’s models with our respective internal safety and alignment evaluations. Today, we’re publishing the results. Frontier AI companies will inevitably compete on

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From Anthropic's version:

>While we were happy to be able to participate in this collaborative effort and are excited for the precedent that it sets, we expect closely-coordinated efforts like this to be a small part of our safety evaluation portfolio. Direct coordination with other developers on safety evaluations can help surface blind-spots in our methods, but it demands substantial logistical investment, and often benefits from expertise in using models that we are not especially familiar with. Openly releasing evaluation materials (and results, in some cases) can provide a more scalable path forward for other developers and outside evaluators to use as they see fit.

Translation: Stop wasting our time with this shit.

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Strange now, normal in the future

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Source: https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/1950636669507674366

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/netflix-of-ai-amazon-invests-fable-showrunner-launch-1236471989/

And Life 3.0 predicted this:

When Friday came around and curious visitors started arriving at their site, they encountered something reminiscent of the online entertainment services Netflix and Hulu but with interesting differences. All the animated series were new ones they’d never heard of. They were rather captivating: most series consisted of forty-five-minute-long episodes with a strong plotline, each ending in a way that left you eager to find out what happened in the next episode. And they were cheaper than the competition.

https://lifearchitect.ai/agi-achieved-internally/

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How much weight should I give this?

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This one from a year ago:

Adam Unikowsky, 8+ Supreme Court wins, former clerk to Scalia, 17/Jun/2024:

‘Claude is fully capable of acting as a Supreme Court Justice right now…I frequently was more persuaded by Claude’s analysis than the Supreme Court’s… Claude works at least 5,000 times faster than humans do, while producing work of similar or better quality…’

https://lifearchitect.ai/asi/