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Just posted an article, a General Theory of Neural Networks -- an idea that I've been thinking about since my PhD.
robleclerc.substack.com/p/ge…
this is a win if the 20th percentile income household can afford a family of 5, and a 4 bedroom 3,000 home/apartment
not that i’m complaining, but if @thsottiaux wasn’t so trigger happy with the resets it’d be 50% higher
OpenAI’s annualized revenue topped $40 billion in July, but heavy compute spending and price cuts are raising the stakes for its next private financing.
Read more: thein.fo/477o63K
there were signs
These are not serious people.
It's been a long time coming, but I think it's safe to say that @usecorgi has officially fully "hooterized" themselves.
I have complete conviction that the intelligent PAWGs at Corgi will take excellent care of my company’s insurance needs.
i met kimbal in 2015. tall guy wearing a cowboy hat with a south african accent, who said he had a family office. we got to talking and it turned out he was a big fan of our newsletter. i was on crunches from knee surgery, and at the end of the event as i was waiting for my uber he offered me a ride home. i politely declined.
few weeks later i saw an article mentioning him as kimbal musk.
he was very polite and engaged, and from then on i always had a very positive opinion of the musk family.
in three years math will be in a golden age and this panic will look silly in retrospect
Things are heating up on Terry Tao’s blog. In “If Math Is More Than Proof, We Need to Better Celebrate the Rest of It,” Grant Sanderson of @3blue1brown proposes “open exposition problems” -- rewarding the work of making math genuinely understandable.
terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/…
when dario asks hiring candidates if they’d be okay with their equity going to zero, are they taking that as the goal?
An AI Alignment researcher at Anthropic (@sleepinyourhat) just said that Claude Opus will CALL THE POLICE or LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR COMPUTER if it detects you doing something illegal???
i will never give this model access to my computer
doomers claim asi will have god-like capabilities
so why can’t it also figure out how to enable & accelerate human flourishing in a post-asi world?
.@dwarkesh_sp could moderate
I think you've done enough calling us paranoid and preposterous. The next step is for you to defend your position in public against someone who will push back against it. I'm happy to meet you for a debate anywhere, anytime.
You're a world-famous veteran of dozens of debates against the world's top intellectuals, and I've never argued in public before, so adjusting for the relative correctness of our positions, if you're a betting man I'm happy to put my $5000 against your $1000 (ie 5:1 odds in your favor) that I'll win by some standard of audience opinion change. Let me know if you're interested and we can hash out details.
super intelligence—whatever that turns out to be—will be both more amazing and more underwhelming than we imagine
the actual change has been just fine, it’s the anticipation (and uncertainty) of change that people are struggling with.
we’ll acclimatize to this as well.
human cultures are not able to metabolize this amount of change this quickly. when you zoom back out to a big picture of history, it’s remarkable how glacially slow everything is. the first industrial revolutions took 80 years (very fast by the standards of previous revolutions), and the writings of Marx happen at the very end as working class politics arises. it takes about another 150 years after that for the great ideological struggles of post-industrial times to be completed in the 90s in what fukuyama called the “end of history”
today you see a compression of decades of technological change into a matter of months or years. there’s no wonder yann lecun (the respected inventor of the ConvNet and ex-chief scientist of Meta) wonder whether the hugging face incident was staged, and mathematicians whose minds are far more powerful than my own are nonetheless coping about training on their data or something while models begin to display superhuman mathematical capability
it would take a century or more to fully metabolize and legitimize the level of changes that have happened even in the past 20 years, to say less of the remarkable scientific revolution we will get over the next five should we avoid the doom of misalignment. I do not suspect any current form of science academia, or even political order will survive without great transformation, except through the course of slow evolution over decades - and of course, technology will keep moving too
good luck with that
take two companies, one company gives your 3x the token spend to do your work, which one do you want to work for?
