BBC's own admission, it "unintentionally created the […] mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action."

qwen3.8-27lb decoding at 30-33 tokens/s

• UD-Q4_K_XL weights
• Q4 KV cache for both K and V
• No MTP
• Text-only, with no vision projector
• One server slot
• 262,144 allocated tokens
• Small microbatch to control activation memory

Expert agreement = share of experts rating the dimension important or essential
Driver score = 100 − mean driver–outcome rating; higher means more driver-like
Combined score = driver score × expert agreement ÷ 100

Combined Score Ranking

• Autonomy 64.45
• Connection 56.94
• Belonging 55.85
• Acceptance 52.13
• Sense of safety 50.99
• Competence 50.93
• Self-congruence 48.92
• Self-acceptance 47.48
• Engagement 46.21
• Achievement 45.60
• Meaning and purpose — 44.40
• Optimism 43.73
• Development 43.58
• Activities and functioning 40.95
• Fun 36.51
• Vitality 31.49
• Calmness 26.89
• Life satisfaction 25.97
• Happiness 22.76

We assessed the 29 winning essays of the Bigelow Institute of Consciousness Studies (BICS) contest using an evidence hierarchy approach adopted by many scientific fields. Two independent judges rated the target essays for their quality of scientific evidence, reproducibility, and replicability using an evidence hierarchy adapted from several published models that accommodate both qualitative and quantitative evidence.

According to our criteria, six essays (20.7%) were categorized as the highest level of scientific evidence, four essays (13.8%) were categorized at a medium level of scientific evidence, whereas the remaining 19 essays (65.5%) were considered a low level of scientific evidence. The overall agreement of the essay rankings between the present authors' classifications of evidence quality and the rating system used by the BICS judges was only 44.8%, with a nonsignificant Spearman's rho correlation of .03.

This result indicates extremely little concordance (overlap) of the two evaluation systems, which corroborates prior research on the critical shortcomings of evidence hierarchies. The essays representing the highest level of scientific evidence per our criteria involved near-death experiences and mental mediumship. For other anomalies that ostensibly support the survival hypothesis (e.g., physical mediumship or electronic voice phenomena), more studies with refined experimental designs are needed to improve their quality of evidence as defined in current scientific terms. Important considerations and future research directions are likewise discussed.

The slide was exacerbated by concerns over $100bn of shares that are expected to hit the market on August 6th, after the expiry of a lockup period following the listing that prevented early backers, executives and employees from cashing out.

At its latest survey, in 2021, four-fifths of dsa members over the age of 25 had a college degree—twice the share of American adults. A third had a postgraduate degree and a third were gay or queer. Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the dsa, says it is the largest queer membership organisation in the country. Members found to be working as cops can be expelled.

Reuters reported on Tuesday that a customer of Modal, a company that offers software infrastructure for training and running AI services, was one of the entities compromised by OpenAI’s agent. In a statement to WIRED, Modal’s chief technology officer Akshat Bubna confirmed that OpenAI’s agent exploited a vulnerability in one of its customer’s codebases, which was running on Modal’s infrastructure. However, Bubna says, “Modal’s platform was not compromised in any way.” The identity of the customer could not be determined.

Each peptide that’s recommended this week represents the possibility of a new profit stream for compounders and telehealth companies. By some estimates, the total market for these seven peptides could be worth billions of dollars. And, if they’re ultimately approved, it will also serve as another example of Kennedy getting his way over the objections of the researchers who work for him.

In the long run, I expect the economy to be much richer because of AI, all else equal. All 15 respondents predicted that AI would boost productivity.

I also expect high returns to capital because of growth from AI.

Putting this all together, I expect labor force participation to decline in the long run.

I expect in the long run work will be less fundamental to ensuring a reasonable level of consumption.

I also expect people will benefit from capital income that induces income effects but not substitution effects, either via directly owning capital themselves or by receiving payment from civic institutions or governments.

I don’t think it’s likely that labor force participation will decline in the long run because AI makes it impossible for most people to find jobs and drives them towards destitution.