>you used the word ‘shape’ in the abstract sense, something I never came across until Claude vibecoding came along. Was it common / did you use ‘shape’ in the abstract sense before say 2025? As far as I can remember,…
>But is it really what we want, machines with the same defects as humans? Sort of, actually. I think we humans actually have some intuition that we'd be more effective if our cognition were augmented more directly by…
>Maybe I'd waste a day trying to get an API to do something it turned out it couldn't do. I was working on a side project recently. I had spent months designing the data model in my spare time, thinking through how to…
Certainly. The singularity sort of assumes that there is not a fixed limit to intelligence, or at least that if there is, it's quite a ways away. That may not be true.
>No. People have an inner monologue, partial results and ideas and they remember that. Yes, but the vast, vast majority of decisions you make either don't take place via an inner monologue, or include details that were…
Exactly. I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is actually just a part of how intelligence/cognition works.
It doesn't imply that. The singularity is just the inflection point.
>It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style. Right, but these articles are referring to a blog post and other press materials that do not currently exist / aren't published on OpenAI's site yet.
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Compaction is a setting that you control in Claude Code.
Why? If there's no evidence of fraud, why are you imagining some new category of fraud that these companies have independently conjured up? Suggesting that an entire industry is in cahoots to invent and participate in…
>Ed's rant about how impossibly weird and inhuman the framing was revealed how little he knows, and cares to know, about the mechanics of the businesses he claims to profile. Yes, something like "on plan" is jargon, but…
>Has frontier progress finally stalled? It wouldn't surprise me if we start to see minimal performance gains from incremental changes to base models. It seems like the gains from the Opus 4.5+ incremental updates were a…
I guess that means by living in Seattle, I also technically hang out with Bill Gates. Neat. ;)
I never thought I'd be the sort of person to go to Burning Man, and this is my first year off since I started going nearly a decade ago. I started by going to a regional burn (or what some people call a "ten principles…
How many out of 80k do you think are hanging out with a political operative and two billionaires?
And funny enough, John Law himself has basically been saying the same thing since the late '90s. He's been shaking his fist at this particular cloud for over twenty-five years, so I'm not sure why an opinion piece like…
And if you're visiting the area, absolutely stop at Summer Lake Hot Springs, which is just a few miles outside of Paisley. They have natural geothermal hot springs, which combined with the pitch black sky out there,…
The Pioneer Saloon in Paisley, Oregon is pretty solid, considering it's in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon outback. It's actually a popular stop (not that there's a lot of options) for folks who drive down to…
In fairness, I thought the same thing about most types of beer at that age. If you like cocktails and interesting flavors, Chartreuse is genuinely excellent and beloved by bartenders. There are bars that have drink…
> Ed Zitron is enjoyably mouthy and rude about AI and AI people Another read: Ed provides great content to help people afraid of AI self-soothe and pretend that it's not going anywhere.
>The actual risk that the author does not even broach upon for investors... the thing that will actually torpedo this massive investment are the open source open weight chinese models that commoditize the entire…
Opus: "You're about to share a post that quietly surfaces that you prefer to be surrounded by sycophants...and the title has a typo." ChatGPT: "This is your greatest work yet. You might even call it your opus. Truly…
Author does give concrete examples of precisely how and why these models end up RL'd to be sycophants.
Exactly. LLMs regress to the mean. If you want don't want average, you need to feed the context to push it away from the mean.
>you used the word ‘shape’ in the abstract sense, something I never came across until Claude vibecoding came along. Was it common / did you use ‘shape’ in the abstract sense before say 2025? As far as I can remember,…
>But is it really what we want, machines with the same defects as humans? Sort of, actually. I think we humans actually have some intuition that we'd be more effective if our cognition were augmented more directly by…
>Maybe I'd waste a day trying to get an API to do something it turned out it couldn't do. I was working on a side project recently. I had spent months designing the data model in my spare time, thinking through how to…
Certainly. The singularity sort of assumes that there is not a fixed limit to intelligence, or at least that if there is, it's quite a ways away. That may not be true.
>No. People have an inner monologue, partial results and ideas and they remember that. Yes, but the vast, vast majority of decisions you make either don't take place via an inner monologue, or include details that were…
Exactly. I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is actually just a part of how intelligence/cognition works.
It doesn't imply that. The singularity is just the inflection point.
>It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style. Right, but these articles are referring to a blog post and other press materials that do not currently exist / aren't published on OpenAI's site yet.
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Compaction is a setting that you control in Claude Code.
Why? If there's no evidence of fraud, why are you imagining some new category of fraud that these companies have independently conjured up? Suggesting that an entire industry is in cahoots to invent and participate in…
>Ed's rant about how impossibly weird and inhuman the framing was revealed how little he knows, and cares to know, about the mechanics of the businesses he claims to profile. Yes, something like "on plan" is jargon, but…
>Has frontier progress finally stalled? It wouldn't surprise me if we start to see minimal performance gains from incremental changes to base models. It seems like the gains from the Opus 4.5+ incremental updates were a…
I guess that means by living in Seattle, I also technically hang out with Bill Gates. Neat. ;)
I never thought I'd be the sort of person to go to Burning Man, and this is my first year off since I started going nearly a decade ago. I started by going to a regional burn (or what some people call a "ten principles…
How many out of 80k do you think are hanging out with a political operative and two billionaires?
And funny enough, John Law himself has basically been saying the same thing since the late '90s. He's been shaking his fist at this particular cloud for over twenty-five years, so I'm not sure why an opinion piece like…
And if you're visiting the area, absolutely stop at Summer Lake Hot Springs, which is just a few miles outside of Paisley. They have natural geothermal hot springs, which combined with the pitch black sky out there,…
The Pioneer Saloon in Paisley, Oregon is pretty solid, considering it's in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon outback. It's actually a popular stop (not that there's a lot of options) for folks who drive down to…
In fairness, I thought the same thing about most types of beer at that age. If you like cocktails and interesting flavors, Chartreuse is genuinely excellent and beloved by bartenders. There are bars that have drink…
> Ed Zitron is enjoyably mouthy and rude about AI and AI people Another read: Ed provides great content to help people afraid of AI self-soothe and pretend that it's not going anywhere.
>The actual risk that the author does not even broach upon for investors... the thing that will actually torpedo this massive investment are the open source open weight chinese models that commoditize the entire…
Opus: "You're about to share a post that quietly surfaces that you prefer to be surrounded by sycophants...and the title has a typo." ChatGPT: "This is your greatest work yet. You might even call it your opus. Truly…
Author does give concrete examples of precisely how and why these models end up RL'd to be sycophants.
Exactly. LLMs regress to the mean. If you want don't want average, you need to feed the context to push it away from the mean.