All posts tagged: arguing

Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again

Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again

Published by skeptic

On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can match or exceed the reasoning performance of flagship systems from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek that are hundreds of times larger. The model, called VibeThinker-3B, scored 94.3 on AIME 2026 — the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, one of the most demanding standardized math competitions in the world. That figure places it alongside DeepSeek V3.2, a model with 671 billion parameters, and ahead of Gemini 3 Pro, Google’s high-performance flagship reasoning system, which scored 91.7. With a test-time scaling technique the team calls Claim-Level Reliability Assessment, the score climbs to 97.1, edging past virtually every system in the public record. Within hours of publication, the paper had drawn 62 upvotes on Hugging Face’s daily papers feed, the model repository had …

When Should We Argue? | Blog of the APA

When Should We Argue? | Blog of the APA

Published by Jenni Sidey

Don’t feed the trolls arguments. When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it often seems futile. While it can be satisfying and illuminating to argue with friends and some other people with whom we share some degree of trust, arguments with family members, acquaintances, and Internet strangers seem more often to harden positions and risk undermining the knowledge of third parties than to illuminate. Engaging may actually be more effective than it appears. Political partisans do seem to respond to argument; their response is often invisible to us because it is (perhaps rationally) often very small. Given enough evidence, even conspiracy theorists seem to be moved significantly. Argument, even argument with committed partisans, is certainly not always futile. On some topics, though, argument does seem futile. Why? One reason often given is that conspiracy theories and committed partisans often don’t hold their views for reasons. Rather, their views reflect emotional commitments or are a reflection of their identity. Argument and the exchange of …

High IQ People Use These 14 Sly Psychological Tricks To Change Minds & Win Almost Any Argument | Sidhharrth S Kumaar

High IQ People Use These 14 Sly Psychological Tricks To Change Minds & Win Almost Any Argument | Sidhharrth S Kumaar

Published by Jenni Sidey

Everyone likes to win an argument, but only a few high IQ people know to use the psychological tricks that actually change someone’s mind. The key is to keep yourself steady and provide reasons, winning them over with facts rather than big feelings.  These sly psychological skills are helpful in life, well beyond debates or arguments. They support your career, financial negotiations, relationships, and even your friendships. Knowing how to win any argument is the first step towards success, but only if you are able to keep that relationship intact afterward.  High IQ people use these 14 sly psychological tricks to change minds & win almost any argument 1. They keep themselves calm George Milton | Pexels High IQ people know that, in order to change minds and win arguments, they need to keep themselves calm. If they get rattled, cry or shout, they will lose focus and drive people away.  It’s great to be enthusiastic about your opinion, but it’s important to maintain your composure. Stay in control of your emotions, as you lose …

‘Love Story’ shows why arguing in public might be good for you

‘Love Story’ shows why arguing in public might be good for you

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more On 25 February 1996, America’s chosen prince, JFK Jr, and his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette, left the house with their dog Friday (so named because it was the only day their pet was allowed into John’s office) – and had the mother of all rows. The couple, who were routinely hounded by paparazzi, screamed at each other in New York’s Battery Park as cameras clicked. John appeared to rip an engagement ring off Carolyn’s finger mid-argument before she chased him down and grabbed him by the shoulders as he tried to storm away. This fiery scene, recreated in Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series Love Story – and played out with such convincing emotion by Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon that modern-day New Yorkers reported the …

The BAFTAs have us arguing over the wrong words

The BAFTAs have us arguing over the wrong words

Published by Sam Flores

My initial reaction to watching Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo flinch while presenting at the 79th BAFTA Film Awards wasn’t shock or even anger. What struck me first, as they held their composure after someone in the audience shouted the N-word, was exhaustion. In the hours and days that followed, social media boiled over with rage on behalf of the “Sinners” stars, directed at the man who shouted the slur, John Davidson, the subject of the biographical drama “I Swear.” Accompanying that rage was a fresh explosion of ignorance about Tourette syndrome, the condition that caused Davidson to tic involuntarily throughout last Sunday’s ceremony. Davidson, who has a symptom of Tourette’s called coprolalia, told Variety that he shouted at least 10 different offensive words during the awards, and the BBC censored all of them except the N-word. This happened despite the BBC airing a pre-recorded version on a two-hour delay. That gave editors ample time to discern what to excise, which included filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. stating “Free Palestine” while accepting an award for …

Anthropic and the Pentagon are reportedly arguing over Claude usage

Anthropic and the Pentagon are reportedly arguing over Claude usage

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The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but Anthropic is pushing back, according to a new report in Axios. The government is reportedly making the same demand to OpenAI, Google, and xAI. An anonymous Trump administration official told Axios that one of those companies has agreed, while the other two have supposedly shown some flexibility. Anthropic, meanwhile, has reportedly been the most resistant. In response, the Pentagon is apparently threatening to pull the plug on its $200 million contract with the AI company. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that there was significant disagreement between Anthropic and Defense Department officials over how its Claude models could be used. The WSJ subsequently said that Claude was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Anthropic did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. A company spokesperson told Axios that the company has “not discussed the use of Claude for specific operations with the Department of War” but is …

If You’ve Already Accomplished These 7 Things, You Have A More Successful Marriage Than The Average Couple

If You’ve Already Accomplished These 7 Things, You Have A More Successful Marriage Than The Average Couple

Published by Jenni Sidey

My husband Kevin and I will be celebrating our 28th anniversary this year. No small feat, for sure. What’s our secret to a thriving midlife marriage, besides not killing each other in our sleep? Being married for a quarter-century or more takes a lot of work, but I’ve boiled it down to a few key “staying strategies.” The important thing to remember about successful marriages is that they’re less about never having problems and more about learning to handle them together. If you and your partner have managed to master these seven things, you’re already doing better than most couples. If you’ve already accomplished these 7 things, you have a more successful marriage than the average couple: 1. You’ve learned to fight fair and productively cottonbro studio / Pexels Every couple argues, but if you want to fight and stay married, you need to abide by a few rules so you don’t end up in divorce court. I’m especially prone to pulling a “kitchen sink,” where I lose focus on the disagreement at hand and argue (for …