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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Benedict Evans token pricing essay

Ways to think about token pricing — Benedict Evans

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Dare Obasanjo austin

“Benedict Evans asks if frontier AI models are destined to be the next high-margin tech monopolies, or the next low-margin commodity infrastructure like mobile networks? He argues that current dynamics point toward the latter, as models are trending towards …”

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4 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago
Phillip Carter austin h.olysh.it apenwarr.ca
apenwarr.ca: Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some…
apenwarr.ca: I mean, it’s not *really* baffling. It’s Conway’s Law and the people who own the API wouldn’t listen to you and you weren’t allowed to publish a second API after people saw through the MCP trick, b…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 9d ago
Gergely Orosz dan austin
Gergely Orosz: With every new model, I put it to the test in writing - to see if I could do what I do - I give it a bunch of interviews I did on a topic, and ask to write an article in my style. The models fail s…
Gergely Orosz: If there is "understanding" it is superficial. I do find it useful to eg generate ideas, check if I missed something etc, but I still cannot find "thinking" in any domain I know very well... and a …
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