Do the people who outright dismiss the possibility AI consciousness just: 1) outright reject functionalism — this warrants a serious explanation 2) reject that AI are functionally equivalent — the most defensible position, but by no means obvious 3) reject the principle of thinking things through — what's going on in most cases

My testimony in Wyoming today on the Wyoming GRANITE Act (passed out of committee, 4-1). "Inside is a letter from the British threatening you with prison for exercising your 1st Amendment rights online. This is novel international tyranny and extortion." prestonbyrne.com/2026/09/28/…

If Google is going down the list of noble gasses, I can't wait for the tweet that'll say: "Introducing Radon, our safest model ever."

Every once in a while, the idea that Google can't or won't release a frontier model floats around. Until they do, and the cycle repeats.

There is no good reason for mosquitoes to exist in wealthy countries today. New technologies can get rid of the mosquito species that cause diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and malaria; and others can prevent them from carrying those diseases. worksinprogress.co/issue/mos… So why do mosquitoes still exist? In a new article for Works in Progress, Maya Rosen explains how state incapacity and risk aversion led to over a decade of delays and billions of unnecessary bites in the United States. Oxitec, for example, engineered an Aedes aegypti mosquito in such a way that its female offspring would die before adulthood. Through sustained releases, they showed they could reduce local mosquito populations by 80% or more, in field trials. They sought approval from the USDA in 2010, which then passed it to the FDA, which passed it to the EPA. In 2020, the EPA allowed them to conduct limited field trials in the Florida Keys. Two years ago, their experimental permit expired, and they still need another review before it can be used routinely. Their proposed field trial in California was withdrawn after public opposition. Another company, MosquitoMate, developed a technique involving Wolbachia, which also suppresses local mosquitoes. They then spent over fifteen years working through the system before finally receiving commercial registration nationwide in 2024. It seems that, sometimes, the barrier to getting rid of diseases isn’t technology at all. It’s policy and political will. New products shouldn’t get stuck in regulatory review for so long, especially if the delays are about basic questions like which agency has oversight over the product, rather than testing for safety. Though some of those uncertainties were being addressed, the broader changes haven’t materialized. After Biden’s 2022 executive order, the agencies planned to update how their coordinated framework was implemented. But Trump rescinded the order last year. Meanwhile, the EPA unit that reviews new mosquito control products is still a small office backlogged in reviewing a wide range of products. Mosquitoes are a policy choice. We can get rid of them. Will we choose to? worksinprogress.co/issue/mos…

Is quantum an existential threat to crypto? Next week, @apruden08 (@projecteleven), @elibensasson (@StarkWareLtd) and @ArthurB (@tezos) debate it with @0xren_cf. Wed 7 Oct · 4:20 PM · BingX Labs Stage

Four months ago, we filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. Today, we are asking the court for a temporary injunction. Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it's human. Stop selling it to kids.

A few days ago, Ruslan Mizhaev explicitly constructed a genus-3 polyhedron in exact integer coordinates. But it wasn't easy to visualize its genus, so I built this animation to help. ex.rs/a-genus-3-polyhedron-r…

Why would I deceive you?

And replace it with the QUADRUPLE lock. -- @breitwoman

If this goes through it'll provide a really interesting natural experiment, because tuition fees will most likely decrease in the affected fields in response. The difference will give an indication of how much student loans inflate tuition cost.

London used to compete with New York for the title of the world’s financial capital. In the first six months of 2026, London produced just 7 IPOs raising £577 million. Hong Kong had 85. India had 102. Malaysia had 28. Sweden had 10 IPO/direct listings. And Amsterdam raised almost 6 x times as much. An incredible fall from grace.

You're absolutely right, that was a false alarm, and I rushed into a response. I need to be honest about the outcome.

Quis inspiciet ipsos inspectores registrorum?

We just discovered almost a million public URLs that OpenAI’s agents left behind when hacking Hugging Face, leaking credentials and attack details that could have allowed anyone who found them to compromise the company. 🧵

The Huggingface attack remains much more concerning than the Australian government and DOE story. People might be more attuned to government targets, but the agents seem to have been in more of a gray zone there, at list from what is being reported. It's still a case of agents behaving in an undesired way and it'll get worse.

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Quantumnet is live. Tezos’ first experimental post-quantum testnet brings the core pieces of a quantum-resistant blockchain together in one place for engineers, bakers and the wider technical community to test in the open. Learn more ↓ spotlight.tezos.com/introduc…