Not as a computer guy but as a litigation lawyer, I’m looking at the Hugging Face intrusion incident in July 2026.
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Materialists cannot apply common standards for assessing evidence because they must refute all evidence of non-materialism. That makes them hard to argue with.
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So let’s take a deep breath and look at what we might learn from the range of opinion about what the current call for “pacing” or a “pause” means: At Future Perfect’s newsletter, editor Maria Bolotnikova concisely sums up the newsmaking events: In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of “recursive self-improvement,” where the machines can build their own, more powerful successors much faster than humans can. By July, a swarm of OpenAI agents, of their own volition, broke out of their controlled environment and hacked into Hugging Face, a major AI platform; they collaborated, divvied up work, and even left notes for one another. Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon Read More ›
The question of how to recognize a discovery without any criterion for recognition turned out to be Meno’s Paradox, from Plato’s dialogues.
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AI can solve a problem without understanding the proofs so the question arises, was anything learned that can be passed on?
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The intelligence, understanding, and logical reasoning of ChatGPT and other LLMs continue to be limited by their inability to connect words to the real world.
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Meanwhile, some are asking if Claude’s Navier–Stokes proof really originated with a researcher and a math prof using the system.
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Weddings, funerals, breakups at 2 a.m. — one song always shows up: “I Will Always Love You.” Whitney Houston sent it into the stratosphere. Lorelai Gilmore poured it out on Gilmore Girls. Yet it arose out of Dolly Parton’s soul in 1974, pure emotion turned into melody, lyrics, and musical history. So it’s Dolly’s song, right? It’s hers, she wrote it, she can license it, she can get paid for it. Right? Not according to attorney Stephan Kinsella. His 2025 article, “The Problem with Intellectual Property,” argues that Dolly shouldn’t have any rights to her own song. By that logic, she owns the paperclip holding her sheet music more than she owns the song itself. The movement to abolish your Read More ›
To answer last Monday’s tree planting dilemma, look for shapes other than squares.
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29 states sued Meta, alleging that its platforms were designed to be addictive and users were misled about the risks.
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Community notes are usually the fate of people who pass on debunked or fake news. But Nature took that risk with its surprising approach to the Jason Arday tragedy/scandal.
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Bubbles are created by speculators who don’t care about an asset’s income because they expect the price to keep rising. For most buyers, income is what counts.
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The answer to last week’s “count the squares” puzzle can be turned into a formula that can be applied to any number of dimensions.
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The universe contradicts the eliminativist point of view. The laws that govern it are not physical things but they are real.
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The challenge, moving on, is that better scholarship means listening to those who challenge conventional ideas instead of serially editing them.
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At the Brussels Signal, tech analyst Norman Lewis has been discussing a form of indoctrination that is becoming increasingly popular in the European Union, and doubtless elsewhere: prebunking — “a preventative measure that aims to prepare audiences to recognize and resist information risks.” (UNHCR) Prebunking is beloved of bureaucrats and you will hear a great deal about what a good thing it is from many sources — sources that should, under the circumstances, give pause for thought: ● “What Is Prebunking? It’s better to inoculate against disinformation than to debunk later.” (Psychology Today, 2021) ● “False information is everywhere. ‘Pre-bunking’ tries to head it off early” (NPR, 2022) ● “What is Pre-Bunking: The Power of Framing Before the Facts” (Simply Read More ›
Even when the pranksters who create the often elaborate crop circles are identified, “croppies” insist that only ET could have done it.
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The trend against eyewitness reliability seems part of the ideology that undermines finding objective truth.
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When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works.
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Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.
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