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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 5d ago
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NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

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Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
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McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“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”

Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

Ai spending oracle stocks bonds

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“I used to think ”spending on AI infrastructure could be the fuse that ignites the bomb that is the massive global debt bubble“ was paranoid fantasy, on the grounds that Big Tech was paying for it all out of cash on hand, but no, pretty clear that’s where we…”

Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...”

Established AI field signal Development 16d ago
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voters use AI for election decisions

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots - The New York Times

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“Using AI to learn about campaigns and ballot measures is appealing to many voters because it seems straightforward. But with results that can be marred by factual errors or shaped by flawed assumptions, the reality is more complicated. www.nytimes.com/2026/…”

“This is why there's a race to control the answer machine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...”

Established Safety & security Analysis 4d ago
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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay

It's Not Just X. It's Y.

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“If you look at all of Biden’s bullets you see this LLM pattern show up in some form or another — LLM templates aren’t a Mad Libs-style template, but they tend to repeat the same form of sentence. I wrote more here, if it’s of interest: mail.cyberneticforest…”

“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”

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Eryk Salvaggio: Not picking on OP or endorsing the trend, but the number of people sharing and being genuinely moved by Hunter Biden’s Claude output is a good window into how audiences see and respond to LLM-gener…
Eryk Salvaggio: A microcosm in the quote-posts, too. And look, I’m not using Pangram (I don’t have to) or calling for anyone to shun anybody. Just noticing something.
Eryk Salvaggio: Can’t say it’s Claude specifically but it has lots of telltale signs. It’s bullets, for one. Two: the terse “The noun verbed” opener. 3, the negative parallelism (“not x, not y. Z.”) repeated twice…
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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“LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...”

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ana valdivia: LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...
ana valdivia: "A paper [...] questioned [...] whether models would become less effective from Stack Overflow’s absence. Now he [the author] believes that this was the wrong way of thinking about the problem. “Th…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): I’m surprised that the decline began back in 2014
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 9d ago
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Europe 2031 AI failure risks analysis

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Incredible to see how many people are (still) reading and sharing https://t.co/1pLkJBYk9Y - so we added a few more languages and have many more coming soon! https://t.co/LrWkxP4nBE”

“a new AI 2027 scenario is out but this time focused on Europe. nothing in it is new, but the scenario laid out seems more realistic than the 2027 version because the scope is tighter. the timeline though might be too fast, hard to say.”

Developing AI research Development 1d ago
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China regulates AI relationships

China is trying to regulate relationships with AI – can it work? | New Scientist

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“China is trying to regulate how we have relationships with AI over concerns it's affecting society - but will it work? My latest for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2580...”

Established Safety & security Analysis 3d ago
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MIT AI video surveillance plan

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance - Schneier on Security

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““MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive.””

Established Policy & governance Analysis 10d ago
AI companies oversight board lessons essay

What AI Companies Can Learn from the Oversight Board | TechPolicy.Press

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“Responding to Dario Amodei's call for industry self-governance, Oversight Board members Kenji Yoshino and Ronaldo Lemos lay out three requirements for credible AI oversight: independent overseers, external standards, and transparency.”

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