It was perhaps worse than we imagined.
The dinosaurs probably died much faster — and much more horribly — than we thought. https://t.co/WlU8AOGVKM
— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) October 31, 2026
It was perhaps worse than we imagined.
The dinosaurs probably died much faster — and much more horribly — than we thought. https://t.co/WlU8AOGVKM
— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) October 31, 2026
It’s Space Week at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and it’s been pretty busy, in case anyone was wondering about the lack of posts. Just offering proof of life.
…by LLMs:
Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men. And they finally figured out why. They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas. The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality. First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children. When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity." It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time. But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy. The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones. Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark. They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable. If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world. When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering. A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability. A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7. The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide. Nobody explicitly coded these rules. This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
— How To Prompt (@HowToPrompt__) October 23, 2026
The unthinkable is about to happen to SpaceX https://t.co/c8MNQXqvYy
— David Carbutt (@DavidCarbutt_) October 22, 2026
What he’s doing goes far beyond technology development. He’s fighting the Marxists:
I don’t think people realize what Elon Musk is actually doing. He’s not playing the game better than everyone else. He’s rewriting the rules of the game. Every billionaire before him was offered the same deal: money for aura, silence for respectability. They all took it. He walked out. I made a 4-minute video on the machine he’s fighting. Watch it before it gets buried. https://t.co/MSsAswVb2B
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 22, 2026
What they’ve accomplished this year.
It’s pretty impressive.
Porsche could not possibly have picked a more humiliating day to unveil this, and calling their decidedly non-flying car “A glimpse into the future” only makes the embarrassment more spectacular. Also the most merciless comment section in X history, and every bit of it deserved.
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 16, 2026
OK, as a recovering aerospace engineer, I’m wondering what kind of rocket-propulsion system that Tesla has. What’s the propellant, and how long can it do that kind of thing before it needs refueling? If he wanted to continue to claim that it was an electric car, they should be electric thrusters, like Hall effect, but those wouldn’t have sufficient thrust to do that stunt. Is he using nitrous for the oxidizer?
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) October 16, 2026
[Monday-afternoon update]
New "Back to the Future" sequel. 🤣🎃👻 https://t.co/qS7u305NSD
— 🎼 Lurdes (@sedrul08) October 19, 2026
[Bumped]
[Thursday-morning update]
Thoughts from Jim Meigs.
[Bumped again]
This one is a new twist on the meme:
Hitler finds out Tesla’s new car flies https://t.co/2ZKOPkP8tm
— David Keyes (@DavidMKeyes) October 21, 2026
Europe and the Middle East: Escalation and the Risk of Miscalculation https://t.co/BVRHWwer9T
— Supersonic Redhead🛫 (@Supersonic_Red) October 22, 2026
Eric Berger surveys the contestants.
A preview of the next flight:
SpaceX has released a new Starship tower catch animation for the upcoming Flight 15! https://t.co/kStn01Da8u
— Truthful🛰️ (@Truthful_ast) October 20, 2026
I haven’t been reading it that much lately, but it seems to have gone to hell.