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“We have [very large budget left]; sacrificing now yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance? ... Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.” - i’m not switching teams, but this is pretty inspirational. www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations dwarkesh.com

What are people using to manage agent skills across harnesses and machines? APM looks promising but not very popular (in the grand scheme) github.com/microsoft/apm

GitHub - microsoft/apm: Agent Package Manager github.com

What small pox can teach us about AI breakouts (it’s more than you’d think) - www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-09-07-o...

One Floor Up distributedthoughts.org

In a world where agents can transact, who pays? And how? www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-08-03-t...

The Freeze Function distributedthoughts.org

Everybody's talking about open weights/models, I have thoughts 😊 Some of us have scars on top of scars in defining "open". It's a complicated, but know what you get with open weights/models. Because NONE of it is "open source." More here! www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-27…

Free Binaries, Again distributedthoughts.org

Hi all! We’re running a survey at the Edge AI Foundation to map where physical AI is being deployed at the edge in defense—deployment, hardware gaps, and what's working. Findings will be presented in Washington in September and published shortly after. Thanks! 2kpyqv8opxp.type…

EDGE AI Defense WG Survey 2kpyqv8opxp.typeform.com

One thing I love about the current AI age is how we just keep re-inventing everything - today, Paramount's www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-17-t...

The Paramount Problem distributedthoughts.org

Not that you were asking, but I think I’m closer to @davidcrespo.bsky.social - this has been well covered philosophy in the Chinese Room thought experiment (among many others). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...

Chinese room - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org

i stopped reading this when it mentioned the ware usage figure in the second paragraph. That has since been thoroughly disproven (blog.andymasley.com/p/i-might-ha...) so i'm going to assume that the rest of the piece has similar fact checking rigor.

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI used a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened blog.andymasley.com

I wrote about FERC, AI data centers, ratepayers, and why physics does not care how neatly the invoice is allocated: distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-06-t...

The Cheapest Connection You Never Build distributedthoughts.org

Either this is ai slop, or the person measuring this stuff is insane. Either way I saw this graph and now you have to

Your laptop got 25% pricier this month and the chips didn't change. AI needs high-bandwidth memory, built on the same wafers as your RAM, so yours got requisitioned. In 1942 silk went to parachutes and women painted stocking seams on with eyeliner. Same move now, minus the ration coupon.

Do you? Do you really like connecting with local business owners? Who are currently exploring AI opportunities? DO YOU REALLY?