Wednesday, September 30, 2026

LLMs may be capable of recursive improvement, but the self part still has a ways to go

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" Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously. This is the smartest AI in the world. " ...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Can we finally put a stake in the heart of the climate benefits of the AI bubble argument?

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For as long as people have been noticing the environmental issues associated with the AI bubble, commentators have been supplying articles l...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The Wall Street Journal sounds a bit concerned.

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Just to step back and get a look at the big picture (or the big pictures), when we talk about AI, which these days almost always comes down ...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Maybe AI getting too smart too quickly is not our most immediate concern.

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As previously mentioned, when you hear someone like Amodei or Coxon talking about the dangers of AI,  listen carefully. They'll probably...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Making the case for Ed Zitron as the last of the great bloggers.

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An individual who, with no resources or special standing or institutional support, simply goes online, does his research, and starts writing...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

A rationalist, a cynic and an anthropologist walk into a bar...

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it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow — dr. rich traditions, ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

That was ugly

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Anyone who had put money on Bonta for Governor might want to visit their Polymarket account. It's generally bad for their political care...
Monday, September 21, 2026

The most important thing to remember about the incident where OpenAI agents went rogue is that it never happened.

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Before you race to the comment section, hear me out. The Hugging Face hacking incidents are very much real and are something we should all b...
Friday, September 18, 2026

Friday Tweets

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Some stories and developments you might want to keep on your radar.  Did anyone else get the feeling that the GOP "convention" ...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Computer scientist Cal Newport adds some clarity to the AI debate

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As previously mentioned, software veteran Carl Brown has pointed out that we can prevent incidents like the hugging face hack simply by enfo...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Maybe we could just try going back to the old fashioned notion of enforcing laws.

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I know some of you aren't video people, but this is one of the most sensible things you'll hear in this increasingly overheated deba...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The timing of Sam Altman's principled stand is a bit suspicious

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[Standard caveats for the Hugging Face hacking thread.] [The mainstream coverage of the story has been sensationalistic and alarmist, with m...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

Sanewashing Revisited

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While reading Andrew Gelman's recent post on sanewashing, I was surprised at how many people in the comment section seem to be complete...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Nothing untoward going on here

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DRUCK: “.. Given what’s going on in the economy and the capital spending boom and the war for capital, if anything, [bond yields seem] a li...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

It turned out that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella actually could overstate the breakthrough of the metaverse

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Occasionally, sitcoms will go meta and play with the conventions of the genre, such as the way that huge, life-changing events seem to disap...