Faith Hahn

Therefore, expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight. […] This also implies that qualia are not puzzles that can be solved by increasingly elegant syntax. Instead, they represent the intrinsic, underlying substrate that makes the semantic

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Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budget. By comparing LRMs

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But the question remains: Why was the Palace of the Soviets to be erected precisely where the Temple of Christ the Saviour had stood? (Let us add that the temple stood on extremely poor ground, porous and constantly underrun by water. It was treacherous soil for building on, pushing up the costs of construction.)

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Such qualities were not optional in a land crowded with self-important bureaucrats and greedy warlords. Kings, sultans, viziers (grand or not), beys, kadıs, and pashas — Seljuks, Byzantines, and Ottomans in turn — made up a long procession of pompous officials to be flattered, avoided, or deceived as necessity required. It is no wonder that the... See more

What do they say? Nothing at all. Life goes on. In the morning, adults hurry to work; children go to school; grandmothers go stand in lines. More and more frequently, a family member is taken away, now a friend from work, now a neighbor. That’s life. Only the residents of houses next door to the temple seem to take an interest. In spare moments,... See more

Trump seemed unmoved by his divine destiny: the messiah, after all, is an unpaid position. More mysterious is why Parnas — a transnational criminal until he was caught — and his son came to be leading operatives for the Democratic Party during Biden’s term.

One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?

In the past, propaganda served the purposes of war; now war serves the purposes of propaganda. But the blood remains real.

What this actually is, stripped of the Orwellian window dressing, is the largest forced purge of a federal land management agency in American history. It dwarfs anything that’s come before. The BLM headquarters move in Trump’s first term — widely understood, even then, as a deliberate gutting of the agency — involved a few hundred positions. This... See more