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Multiple readings Unit distance remarks Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Future Is Not Tech-Forward Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Age of ai icm Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
⚡ 2560 h early

Unit distance remarks

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · James Grimmelmann
“The companion paper contains a version of the (dis)proof in the level of detail expected by the mathematical community, and some of the mathematicians whose comments are included there have the expertise to vouch for its correctness. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c2…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht Suresh Venkatasubramanian Grace James Grimmelmann Benjamin Riley
8 experts discussed this · 47 posts
Colin: I hate that today’s most prominent AI skeptics keep forcing me to argue against them. I yearn to join them in the fight against the booster zealots, wherein there is still plenty of room for legiti…
Colin: The questions available to a skeptic today are kind of esoteric, like “how much should we as a society be willing to pay for theorems”
Ben Recht: The way forward is through the mushy middle. This technology is amazing. It works and breaks in surprising ways. The main boosters are lunatics. And the loudest critics are detached from reality. F…
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Primary source cdn.openai.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
tech-forward future skepticism essay

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ali Alkhatib
“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Brian Merchant Taylor Lorenz Eryk Salvaggio Ali Alkhatib Edward Ongweso Jr Frank Pasquale Benjamin Riley
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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”

Primary source thetechbubble.info ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago

Age of ai icm

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Ramon Astudillo, Benjamin Riley
“Paper from the essay. Also slides teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753” evidence ↗
6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Clément Canonne Ramon Astudillo James Grimmelmann Benjamin Riley Paul Ford tachikoma
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Established Models & releases Analysis 20d ago
AI writing adulteration

AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writing

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“The whole Anthropic AI Watermarking Controversy is delighting me as people rediscover the idea that writing is a tool that humans use to communicate our thoughts. We are not probabilistic next-token generators with adjustable (and watermarkable) weights. Go…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Frank Pasquale Benjamin Riley

“The whole Anthropic AI Watermarking Controversy is delighting me as people rediscover the idea that writing is a tool that humans use to communicate our thoughts. We are not probabilistic next-token generators with adjustable (and watermarkable) weights. Go…”

““For something to be adulterated, it has to be pure to begin with. The internal work in progress of an LLM is anything but pure. [Much] about a model… is opaque to the user, such that the only way to assess its correctness is by judging the output.” bitspli…”

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2 experts · 34 posts · 1d ago
Benjamin Riley Shriram Krishnamurthi
Matches Research & technical analysis
“I am! There's been a lot of discussion about it on X. It's been interesting to see how many edu researchers seem to have drunk their kool aid. The initial numbers out of Arizona—that *they* suggest…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Biggest downside to getting my course sites finalized with Claude's help is that EVERY annoyance I have seen, I can now get fixed…so after every hour of work, my todo list is a bit longer than an h…
Benjamin Riley: Hi Shriram. I’m curious if you are familiar with Alpha School? I’m working on a story about it.
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3 experts · 21 posts · 17d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
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“Will do! Doing lots of field research.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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