You say that the times are bad. Be better yourselves, and the times will be better: You are the times. Technology must multiply human agency. DMs closed.

New York, USA
Joined October 2018
If you have an obsessive streak, this is the greatest time to be working on frontier technology. The problems are genuinely monumentally difficult, which makes progress feel amazing. Besides, it's quiet on the frontier. None of the circus of mainstream AI.
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Analog is about the nature of the interpretation function, not about continuity versus discreteness.
So it turns out I didn’t actually know the definition of “analog”.
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This may have been the best reading experience of my life other than like the bible. I disagreed continually but also admired the depth and quality problem framing. Sweet.
Just started reading phenomenology of spirit for the first time.
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I can feel a geometric group theory arc coming.
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In reading about the history of science I’ve been struck by how often scientific questions suddenly transmute into theological questions when you’re at the bare bottom ground. Strange ineffable mystery.
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There’s a point in any creative work where the work catches fire and comes alive. I think I’m there. I’ve been looking forward to this for a very long time.
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Nice.
DeltaNet-PC is out! It turns out that predictive coding offered a native mechanism for test-time memorization of sequential data all along. The crucial insight was to treat updates to the fast associative memory as an inferred latent variable, not a long term learned weight.
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Secret no go results maybe the most valuable thing. Everyone else iterates breathlessly on a terrain you know is a dead end while you venture out elsewhere.
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Lendo um ensaio de David Bentley Hart sobre o “Heidegger tardio”. A primeira parte é um (bom) resumo de manual. No finalzinho, porém, DBH se permite um certo lirismo, sem forçar a mão no registro barroco de algum de seus texto. Achei bonita a imagem neste trechinho:
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I wish I had read phenomenology of spirit in my teens. It’s great. Awesome density of ideas.
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Backprop was killed a long time ago.
I’m now confident that deep learning is going to look *unrecognizable* within the next 6 months. Replacing backprop is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Remember most frontier research is now private because of obvious reasons.
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What’s missing can be described as a theory of theories of theory building systems. It’s a higher level of abstraction than anything in pure math or theoretical computer science today.
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Abstract over choice. Make the theory machine.
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It’s bizarre to hear people talk about LLMs like they’re still the frontier. Sweet summer child.
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This is nice but don’t bet against AI. What you’re imagining as the real thing ( LLMs ) is a prototype technology that will get wiped away. Don’t over index on the prototype. The archetype will kill you.
AI predictions for next 6-9 months -> Anthropic/ OAI fail to ban OSS in the US -> Anthropic/ OAI continue to innovate product but stall on fundamental tech breakthroughs -> SOTA Gemini 4 launches at 10x lower cost -> Elon open sources Grok -> Anthropic/ OAI ARR growth stalls as enterprises move from tokenmaxxing to rational token consumption/ OSS -> slow realization in public markets that AI may not replace human labor in next 1-3 years/ has not had a fundamental tech breakthrough in over a year/ lacks ROI/ AI hyper and lab spend not durable -> moonboy VCs/ hedge funds/ softbank continue to fund Anthropic/ OAI equity raises in private markets as public markets for them are now fully closed -> CXMT, YMTC announce capacity expansions significantly above market expectations -> hypers deliver good q326 results on first look but fail to show meaningful AI ROI, guide to "significant capex expansion in fy27" -> broad realization in public markets the AI dream we got sold on is not anywhere close to realization -> 10yr hits >5% -> hyper bonds reprice >10%, CDS hit 3x current levels, and AI credit market dries up as market realizes GPU ABF was not a good idea -> hyper equities reprice 30-50% lower -> ORCL falls below $30 as rumors of bailout make the round -> market realizes memory is cyclical and LTAs won't hold -> 50% of korean traders get wiped within a week -> hypers cut fy27 capex -> semis reprice >80% lower -> fed cuts >150bps to avoid recession
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This is a bad answer isn’t it. Experience has never been the alpha in technology.
Jensen Huang says he has been doing this for 33 years he says the young guys at large language model companies are all just first-time CEOs in answer to a question on trust
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Too excited about work to sleep. God damnit.
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Don’t do drugs. Stay sober.
Lucy Guo on why AI isn't shrinking her workweek: "AI is making people work harder actually, because you have to be awake for your agents to be running." She pulled a 26-hour day last week because Claude was shipping code and she refused to miss the loop.
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Hölderlin phase.
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I think we have to get rid of points when thinking of space. It has to happen.
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