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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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science.org

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Henry Farrell Alison Gopnik Marco Z

“A very interesting and clear (and reassuring?) piece relating the Farrell et al (www.science.org/doi/full/10....) idea of LLM's as cultural technology to the recent developments in AI Mathematics. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...”

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Terry Tao AI causes essay

Happy, those able to know the causes of things

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Henry Farrell Alison Gopnik Marco Z René Walter

“and this too terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...”

“A very interesting and clear (and reassuring?) piece relating the Farrell et al (www.science.org/doi/full/10....) idea of LLM's as cultural technology to the recent developments in AI Mathematics. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...”

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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 5d ago
AI inference cost plunge analysis

The plunging price of thought

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Ethan Mollick Marco Z Epoch AI

“Also this terrific chart. All from: epoch.ai/publications...”

“The trillion-dollar question: If AI companies collectively slow the development of AI, will prices also fall more slowly? Read the full report: epoch.ai/publication...”

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5 experts · 27 posts · 2d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the busin…
tweety fish: like this, I think, maybe sounds weird, but is in a strong sense literally true.
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5 experts · 34 posts · 15d ago
jake Marco Z tachikoma Fran Litterio Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
jake: People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of n…
jake: it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…
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6 experts · 16 posts · 15d ago
Chris Paxton SE Gyges jake Marco Z austin coty.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
SE Gyges: it's a cold day in hell, i agree with David Sacks
SE Gyges: it would be great if they all instituted actual, reasonable audits by actually neutral parties. i don't care if they slow down, and probably prefer they don't. i don't actually believe either thing…
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