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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
⚡ 97 h early
McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Lynn Cherny Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Dare Obasanjo tante Salomé Viljoen Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Meredith Martin +6

“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”

“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”

Primary source mcsweeneys.net ↗
Established AI research Resource 7d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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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”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
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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Primary source intheweights.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

Google gemini launch delayed as tech falls short of internal goals

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Lynn Cherny
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Lynn Cherny: Google model delay
Mark J. Nelson: Curious, bc afaik Flash is still (I think?) trained via a student-teacher approach from a Pro base, and Flash 3.5 is pretty good for its class, which suggests Pro 3.5 exists in some form and isn't …
Lynn Cherny: i assume not competitive with claude/sol
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Primary source bloomberg.com ↗