Best of Twitter week of April 14-20, 2025

A recap of Chinese progress over the last five-six years. The change that strikes Molson most is not automation or tech but *everyone getting more civilized*. “Japanified version of China”. This is harder than spamming fast trains.
recommended watch.

— Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) (@teortaxesTex)
6:16 PM • Apr 15, 2025

A reminder: The Bitter Lesson was written by Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner.

— Xin Eric Wang @ ICLR 2025 (@xwang_lk)
10:26 PM • Mar 5, 2025

New op-ed argues that prions, infectious proteins that causes devastating conditions like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru, may also be our best model for understanding protein dynamics....

...and, thus, improve our ability to design better proteins in the laboratory.

— Niko McCarty 🧫 (@NikoMcCarty)
3:32 PM • Apr 8, 2025

We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted.

We were surprised, so we dug deeper 🔎🧵(1/)

— Transluce (@TransluceAI)
5:01 PM • Apr 16, 2025

How to make biology faster:
- More speedrunning competitions and hackathons
- Higher expectations for service providers (the "boring" stuff)
- Spend lots more money funding people to build predictive models & in silico simulators.

New from @an1lam. I love the header image, too.

— Niko McCarty 🧫 (@NikoMcCarty)
2:13 PM • Apr 14, 2025

Links & What I've Been Reading Q1 2025

— Alvaro de Menard (@AlvaroDeMenard)
1:52 PM • Apr 3, 2025

we made a map!

gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields

— Convergent Research (@Convergent_FROs)
1:13 PM • Apr 15, 2025

My history with philosophy

— Marginal Revolution (@MargRev)
5:09 AM • Apr 20, 2025

Elon has an estimated 100-150 children by tens of mothers.

He is establishing a space-colonizing dynasty with one sextillion (a million trillion trillion) descendants after 1000 years.

The god emperor of Mars.

— Sivori (@sivori)
12:08 AM • Apr 17, 2025

o4-mini-high just solved the latest project euler problem (from 4 days ago) in 2m55s, far faster than any human solver. Only 15 people were able to solve it in under 30 minutes

— Scott Swingle (@bio_bootloader)
5:59 PM • Apr 16, 2025

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— nic carter (@nic__carter)
8:17 PM • Apr 17, 2025