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Established Compute & infrastructure Research 6d ago
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latent reasoning recurrent depth test-time compute paper

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

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Chris Paxton Sung Kim

“OpenAI’s Astra may be using Recurrent Depth as outlined in this paper: Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171)”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
Ed Zitron AI skeptic predictions review

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

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Chris Paxton Shriram Krishnamurthi Alex Gude

“I've had this sense in the back of my head but never bothered enough to investigate. @danluu.com took the trouble to actually compile receipts. This is the new media: the best way to establish a brand is to tell people what they want to hear, over and over.…”

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

Agency and Agents

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Ethan Mollick 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 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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3 experts · 26 posts · 5d ago
Chris Paxton Grace apenwarr.ca
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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3 experts · 7 posts · 6d ago
Chris Paxton SE Gyges Andy Masley
Andy Masley: Humans don't actually have internal coherent world models. You might not be able to say where lots of specific keys on a QWERTY keyboard are if asked, but if you put your hands down on the table an…
Andy Masley: This is evidence that humans are just doing complex pattern recognition that doesn't transfer to other domains and we should stop anthropomorphizing them.
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