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Some people frame this as being 2 years into an AI revolution—or 20 years into the internet revolution. A better lens is that we’re about a century into a physics revolution, and the last one lasted three centuries.
Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
This is where extra productivity goes… does she really need a team of psychiatrists and doctors… if we have more surplus do we need to add even more psychiatrists to her team?
There’s only two people I’ve heard defend not enacting the Epstein transparency bill.. one hard right republican congressmen and the other a guy on the New Yorker podcast
Fascinating to hear Emmett on A16Z podcast:
In response to his Q: how would you know something is different other than its behavior (and generally what would make you grant AI personhood)?
I would say… I would need to believe that I could have been in the AI shoes in a veil of ignorance way.
Notes on Cursor 2.0 and a pelican drawn by their brand new Composer-1 coding model, which they describe as "4x faster than similarly intelligent models" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...
I’d love to see what % of public co ownership stake is of OpenAI and Anthropic
I think that’s the point though, a true inner happiness is very compressible—it looks like contentedness which naturally looks more same-same then constant envy and churn
“Every happy family is alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
Idk the foreign policy and the ballroom seem aight, maybe just focus on the stuff like the president suing his own department of justice for hundreds of millions, or the pardons, or the forced national guard deployments across state lines
it's painful to see people grasping onto "True AGI", "datacenter of geniuses", "Year of the Agent", "Massive job replacement"
when it's just clearly not the case...
definitely resonate with LLMs
1. giving over defensive code
2. unable to break out of common frameworks and apis
Ok but isn’t this kinda expert systems all over again?
Causation module; phase-shift gradient flow; something like that for rapid learning and high sample efficiency
Sample inefficiency??
Suppose your model of intelligence requires (1) NOT imitation learning (2) NOT virtual environments, and (3) NOT compressed timelines, then what BENEFIT is there to training an “artificial” intelligence vs an “organic” intelligence.
Isn’t the organic more good?
I think you learn a lot about a person when you learn what is the tiny garden they will protect from slop and where they will let slop go wild.
a good breakdown of the Claude Code agent loop
the key: a simple 2-layer architecture
“a … single-threaded master loop (codenamed nO) real-time steering (the h2A queue)”
(yes, they totally read a de-compiled/obfuscated version, but yeah dedication!)
blog.promptlayer.com/claude-code-...
Too much spam to take notes this way… maybe more subdomains is the answer
He does know he is trying for the Nobel PEACE Prize right? Like put some effort into it. Just as easily could have been the Department of PEACE.
Ayy, thanks
Ok yeah but if I’m understanding right (maybe not relevant to GM, more just about general trends) it’s not about “scaling”, but rather it’s about data mix/ quality, algos and architectures?
I’m dense … what is he wrong about?
My read is that if GPT-5 is scaled up then pure scaling does not work (from evaluating the model… and if it is not scaled up then OAI must have try pure scaling up and it did not work.
This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not write on Plato h less he has spent so much of his youth on Greek as to have no time for the things that Plato thought important.”
P.132 “It is noteworthy that modern Platonists, without exception are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance that Plato attached …
more indefensible? Is there any position that is, in practice, more required for the purposes of sane and productive development?
p. 117-8 "Plato is convinced that there is 'the Good,' and that its nature can be ascertained, when people disagree about it, one, at least, is making an intellectual error, just as much as if the disagreement were a scientific one on some matter of fact"
Is there any position that is, in practice,
LLMs and the implantation of certain "myths" by certain folks...
Conceptually lies in opposition to the idea of certain (successful) groups having shibboleths and common lies.
p. 113 "Plato is right in thinking that belief in this myth could be generated in two generations ... What Plato does not seem to realize is that the compulsory acceptance of myths is incompatible with philosophy and involves a kind of education that stunts intelligence."
Clear "application" to...
