Tim Soret
@timsoret
Founder @oddtalesgames Directing The Last Night @TLN_Game Art Direction, Cinematography, Tech Art. Atoms, Bits, Memes, Genes. Futurism, Humanism.
We are on the verge of a civilizational change. Yet outside of books, there is an intense philosophical void. Little thread.
Why we need AI with lower agreeableness / empathy.
ChatGPT response vs Grok response
Gold. International Math Olympiad. 2025. What the…
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
I’m dreaming of this in London please. A place to chill & work at night that doesn’t revolve around getting drunk & loud sound.
Everyone in SF complains about how every café closes by 5pm and there’s nowhere to work. Introducing Elsewhere: the world’s first late-night café coworking chain for builders, creatives & digital nomads. Launching July 24. Comment your favorite drink & we'll DM you the invite.
Introducing OTTER, our latest pipe transportation robot. - Fully Autonomous - 100+ mph - 132 banana payload [100% real, not a render]
If true, the irony.
Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a temporary effect due to a drop in sulphate pollution newscientist.com/article/248799…
This was essentially the point made by the wonderful and late Dallas Willard, although in far less crude terms (not a "model trained on...data"), but rather, in his realist phenomenology: each person saw the world in a way that no-one else ever will: it was unrepeatable.
Physicist and philosopher Jenann Ismael says when a person dies, it's the collapse of a model trained on unrepeatable data. A lifetime of inputs (books, sensations, thoughts) erased. The signal stops. The information is gone. The loss is absolute.
One day, public officials & journalists might finally understand something as basic as the laffer curve. But not today.
Completely unpredictable! 2020 shot: Seattle passes "Amazon" payroll tax aimed at punishing large companies 2025 Chaser: Payroll tax revenue plummets as companies leave the city. (h/t @Rothmus)