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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
agency and agents substack essay

Agency and Agents

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running self-organized work. That means new risks & a new approach t…” evidence ↗
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“With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running self-organized work. That means new risks & a new approach t…”

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Ethan Mollick: With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running …
Benj Edwards: Cool post
Chris Paxton: With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running …
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9 experts · 16 posts · 6d ago
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“Who's on existential risk?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Ethan Mollick: Was just skimming through the webpages of some of my favorite hard science fiction authors and wow the majority of them hate LLMs: a surprising number of them because they think it is a useless par…
Chris Paxton: Who's on existential risk?
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6 experts · 17 posts · 5d ago
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“sorry, list was populated with a bias to false positives because it's a Substantial Problem, you're removed” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: sorry, list was populated with a bias to false positives because it's a Substantial Problem, you're removed
SE Gyges: ... suddenly curious if i can block myself by adding myself to the blocklist and then subscribing to it
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3 experts · 26 posts · 5d ago
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“Come on, what does it take to get cancelled on this website? I’ve been vibe coding like crazy and sponsoring open source projects and responding to GitHub issues and just, nothing” evidence ↗
apenwarr.ca: Come on, what does it take to get cancelled on this website? I’ve been vibe coding like crazy and sponsoring open source projects and responding to GitHub issues and just, nothing
apenwarr.ca: The closest I’ve come is blog posts that annoy IPv6 defenders. And if we’re honest there just aren’t enough of those for a proper mob
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