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Established Culture, work & education Signal 4d ago

Agi house ai culture

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“An AI house with a *dark side*? Well, I never! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...”

“To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.”

Established Compute & infrastructure Release 7d ago
Laya multilingual decision engine launch

GitHub - mizorewww/laya-coreml: Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reproducible speed and energy benchmarks.

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jar…”

“anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
tachikoma: anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...
ae: anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...
Grace: This is why the Jevon ToS preventing benchmarking was a 1000IQ move
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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
⚡ 1900 h early
Reify This ideas letter essay

Reify This

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Reify This! www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

“This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Ben Recht: In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Ben Recht: I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
Hagen Blix: "If you ask interpretability or alignment researchers how that might come about, you will receive hours-long, mind-numbing lectures about the long-term future of humanity cast in some of the most i…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 14d ago
Lena digital mind sci-fi story

Lena @ Things Of Interest

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Wild article - has me thinking a lot about this outstanding short story about the unforeseen, Black Mirror-style implications of brain emulation. qntm.org/mmacevedo”

“I keep seeing those "hey Claude, make a movie that describes your inner life" and thinking that qntm deserves a mention entirely because of qntm.org/mmacevedo”

Developing Culture, work & education Development 1d ago
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OpenAI breach Australia data centres response

OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“"This technology is coming. There is no putting your head in the sand. We are seeking to engage with these companies, engaging in investment in Australia is an important economic opportunity. It is critically important for our national security" Acting PM w…”

Established Models & releases Release 14d ago
Persimmon humans AI platform launch

Introducing Persimmon | humans&

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Zach Levonian: Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...
ae: Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): Yeah, funky! But also… does building things that more faithfully mimic people uphold the value of being human-centric? I feel like being more human-centric might look more like leaning into differe…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 14d ago
Cegłowski superintelligence critique essay

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“this post from years ago gives a concise, skeptical but I think reasonably fair gloss on it: idlewords.com/talks/superi...”

“someone predicted the current backlash would happen. A while ago. idlewords.com/talks/superi...”

5 experts discussed this · 7 posts
tweety fish: this post from years ago gives a concise, skeptical but I think reasonably fair gloss on it: idlewords.com/talks/superi...
tweety fish: not claiming that it will make sense afterwards, it is is in fact very stupid. but
tweety fish: I think it was after he had pretty much stopped with the fanfic. also that would be clever, and "clever" doesn't really seem like the vibe of HPMOR
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4 experts · 17 posts · 10d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: If we want to update our priors and not just reaffirm them … what do we think Coxon is responding to that he can’t say out loud? My guess, reading between the lines of “revolutionize any field over…
Ted Underwood: If you thought biotech was heading toward the sort of land grab dynamics we see right now in math, I can see how that would be a meaningful escalation of scary
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