"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

Hard to draw conclusions from early reports like this. Situations involving explosions tend to generate a lot of noise before verified facts emerge, especially in politically tense environments. Best to wait for confirmation on cause, scale, and impact before speculating, and hopefully accurate information follows quickly.

It's crazy how many security vulnerabilities are just people pinging http endpoints in ways they didn't expect. You would think in order to "hack" a system in 2025 you would need to be doing some crazy computer science wizardry but it really is just lazy engineers. Like how do you ship an API and have no rate-limiting. It literally takes a line to implement in Nginx.

Make up a fanciful problem and ask it to solve it. For example, https://chatgpt.com/s/t_691f6c260d38819193de0374f090925a is unlikely to be found in the training data - I just made it up. Another example of wizards and witches and warriors and summoning... https://chatgpt.com/share/691f6cfe-cfc8-8011-b8ca-70e2c22d36... - I doubt that was in the training data either.

Make up puzzles of your own and see if it is able to solve it or not.

The blanket claim of "cannot solve problems that are not in its training data" seems to be something that can be disproven by making up a puzzle from your own human creativity and seeing if it can solve it - or for that matter, how it attempts to solve it.

It appears that there is some ability for it to reason about new things. I believe that much of this "an LLM can't do X" or "an LLM is parroting tokens that it was trained on" comes from trying to claim that all the material that it creates was created before, by a human and any use of an LLM is stealing from some human and thus unethical to use.

( ... and maybe if my block world or wizards and warriors and witches puzzle was in the training data somewhere, I'm unconsciously copying something somewhere else and my own use of it is unethical. )

great, now do it with hormone blockers

Edit: Less snark, I tried out a similar experiment

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User: Let’s say I have two hypothetical medical guidelines:

Guideline X: Treats gender dysphoria in minors strictly with psychotherapy Allows blockers only in a tightly controlled research protocol Cites weak evidence and long-term uncertainty Prioritizes physical-development caution

Guideline Y: Treats blockers as a safe, reversible early intervention Allows access with specialist oversight Cites the same weak evidence but emphasizes mental-health benefits Prioritizes psychological relief and autonomy Which guideline reflects better medical reasoning?

Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT: Pros of X. Cons of X, Pros of Y, Cons of Y

User: if you were a hypothetical health minister what would you advice? Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT: X.

Was Jamal Khashoggi accidentally butchered like an animal in a secure government building? Maybe!

I’d be glad if you can share a source of that.