Tootfinder

I suspect we’re doing something similar to the tank classifier when we ascribe intelligence to AIs: there are patterns such as (for example) grammatical correctness which we •associate• with this abstract thing called “intelligence,” and we thus mis-infer the existence of everything else we associate with the notion of “intelligence” when we see (for example) correct grammar.
Or should we just call the machine intelligent because we classify it as intelligence because our brains, which we assume are intelligent, think it fits the pattern of intelligence? And now you see what the OP means about “begging the question of intelligence.”

Docs and interviews: Media Matters is struggling to survive, having racked up ~$15M in legal fees to defend itself from lawsuits by Elon Musk, the FTC, and AGs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poli

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing entirely.

Heute vor 20 Jahren: Am 27. Juni 2005 wurde im #Kernkraftwerk #FitzPatrick (USA) ein Riss im Torus entdeckt, der zu einer möglichen Gefährdung der Containment-Dichtigkeit führte (INES 1). Ein Notfall wurde ausgerufen und das Werk heruntergefahren, um Reparaturen durchzuführen.

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
Achraf Ben Said, Gord Sinnamon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02290 https://

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
The distance from the identity operator $I$ to $H^*$, the dual of the Hardy averaging operator, is studied on the cone of nonnegative, nonincreasing functions in Lebesgue space. The exact value is obtained. Optimal lower bounds are also given for difference, $H^*-I$, of these two operators acting on the same cone. A positive answer is given to a conjecture made in ``The norm of Hardy-type oscillation operators in the discrete and continuous settings'' by A. Ben Said, S. Boza, and J. Soria. Prep…