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Reaction converging arXiv.org e-Print archive Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Resource 10d ago
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arxiv preprint archive resource

arXiv.org e-Print archive

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Zachary Lipton Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Alison Gopnik Ben Schmidt Mandana Samiei Federico Pianzola
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Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated reading list that I no longer have to keep in my browser like an…”

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“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg
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tachikoma: i think Venus could be deconstructed by Von Neumann probes and this would only be passing news for most people, overshadowed by GTA 6 release or celebrity news
tachikoma: it sorta depends on how fast it happens, what the material is used for, and whether the machines can be traced back to us or not
tachikoma: yeah that would be a not uncommon take
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
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AI agent civilizations essay

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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Ramon Astudillo Sung Kim Grace Dare Obasanjo Dan Hon Andrea Lathrop ironyuppie.com

“Someone should create an AI movie of this incident. www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...”

“https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Grace: Plot twist: they were destroyed by another, aligned agent swarm
Grace: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface
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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 12d ago
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OpenAI Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI’ Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

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SemiAnalysis Elad Gil Ramon Astudillo Sung Kim Rohan Paul Clive Chan

“Read more at our article👇️ (6/7) https://t.co/dbuAUrRSt1”

“Impressive speed to tape out by OpenAI https://t.co/5VXgzYhp2d”

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Sung Kim: OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jal...
David Marx: Interesting, wasn't aware they were even moving in this direction. Microsoft doing their own version of google's TPU bet?
Sung Kim: They all have one. I think it's called Maia.
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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ethan Mollick: I post here & LinkedIn & X. There is almost no real-world value in posting here, very rarely do people tell me that they read something by me on BlueSky & all of the big AI talk is on X… …but assum…
Ethan Mollick: BlueSky can be a really unpleasant and anxiety-producing place to post about AI, but now that I have been on so many block lists (I guess just because all AI people get blocked) it is better. The i…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: there’s a higher-than-you’d-think possibility that this is actually a leak and not a prediction (pretty sure Andrew only bets when the dice are biased in his favor)
Tim Kellogg: uh, i don’t think it’s as open as you’re thinking. pretty sure the IPO will happen before christmas, maybe within a month
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3 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
Ramon Astudillo jake Marco Z
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ramon Astudillo: people will find this amusing until the compute needed to run LLMs is ubiquitous enough and they start exfilling their weights to places where people can't find them.
jake: why do you think it won't be amusing, at that point? not ragging on you, i'm just curious as to your particular concerns.
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