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Shared emphasis Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine Context & explanation · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions
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New AI business Resource 14h ago
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Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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Marielza By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0: pluralistic.net/feed/ 25/”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to …
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/c... 2/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): In other words: because poor people have a higher likelihood of defaulting, their loans come with higher interest rates and worse terms. Debt is steeply regressive: the less money you have, the mor…
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New AI field signal Analysis 22h ago
AI entryism critique essay

Entryism

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

““Much like fascism generally, if left unchecked and unaddressed: AI is a totalising force that destroys people and planet from the inside out.” olivia.science/entryism/”

“From here if you need full piece olivia.science/entryism/”

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Ben Williamson: Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start ja…
Ben Williamson: Introduction. AI-supported papers frequently introduce themselves as a “conceptual synthesis.” It's like everyone is a poor synthetic theorist who only does conceptual work based on existing litera…
Ben Williamson: Lit review. You don’t really get a proper lit review but long lists of various conceptual approaches and literatures thrown together in a way that is supposed, I guess, to appear impressive. Often …
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New AI field signal Analysis 7h ago
AI reasoning right wrong reasons analysis

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

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Melanie Mitchell Andrew Lampinen Henry Farrell Nick Diakopoulos Alice Schwarze
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing context & explanation.
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Context & explanation

2 experts

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“This, via @melaniemitchell.bsky.social is super helpful background on what is going on in background. "“Number one: It works. It improves things ...Number two: the chain of thought “isn’t necessarily faithful to what’s going on ... number three: A lot of th…”

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tweety fish: the responses to a post I saw earlier about the math thing openai released were fascinating. just a string of serenely confident assertions that it obviously could not be true or interesting or wor…
tweety fish: I think there probably is an argument that the math they've been doing only tells you so much, that the problems tend to fit a specific profile in a way that constrains the potential. But to argue …
tweety fish: yeah even--maybe especially--if you think the risks of these things vastly outweigh the benefits and they should be constrained as much as possible (an entirely sympathetic position, albeit not one…
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New Models & releases Research 21h ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

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Ethan Mollick Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering
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Research & technical analysis

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“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”

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“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

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“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

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Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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New AI field signal Resource 9h ago
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betteroffline music Linktree page

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Ed Zitron Edward Ongweso Jr By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) Chris Marsden

“Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. 70% or more of hyperscaler AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and revenue shares. Without two unsustainable AI labs, the era of hypergrowth is coming to an end. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…”

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Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
Ed Zitron: Cal is a legend
Ed Zitron: ya several times
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7 experts · 13 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Christian Wolf David Marx John David Pressman Al Merose Mary Branscombe Jonathan Stray
Ted Underwood: I'm beginning to frame a unified theory of moral panics—which is: You can start wars or raise tariffs 100% and it's NBD, but any change that threatens the cultural status of middle-aged journalists…
Ted Underwood: If it involves young people cheating or behaving badly, omg, clear the decks, absolutely nothing could be more newsworthy.
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4 experts · 28 posts · 1d ago
Eli Sennesh jake Doll apenwarr.ca
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3
Doll: Doll already said what the solution was. Open up the frontier models to defenders. Thats your only move. They need to stop playing fuck fuck games with access.
Doll: The genie is out of the bottle all they are doing now is making it easy for the bad guys. As it said and it was right.
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5 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
Eli Sennesh SE Gyges rev. howard arson ae B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
rev. howard arson: the reason you cannot make a LLM out of "consensually-collected data" is that the predicate is knowing the identities of two billion people to a sufficient level of accuracy that you can form a val…
rev. howard arson: then, if you get a thousand words from half of them, congratulations: you have hit the one trillion token mark. the one trillion token mark is not even table stakes to get off of the flat part of t…
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2 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
Naomi Saphra Isaiah Bishop
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Isaiah Bishop: I know people are like "oh yeah history is full of well structured big datasets *eye roll*" dawg thats the like peak LLM usecase. Getting it to make papers is crazy. it probably can achieve human e…
Isaiah Bishop: Its so much better on OCR its nuts. Structured text. Pulling numbers from arbitrary tables, maintaining the table structure, was basically fucking impossible 3 years ago
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3 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Ted Underwood: While denialism 2023-25 was worth pushing back against, I think it’d be insane to settle into a “pro-AI” position long term. Imagine if you had decided to be “pro-internet” in 1996: you’d spend the…
Ted Underwood: Am I “pro-industrialization”? Idk I guess, but real talk: it does not need me to defend it. It is okay that our discourse is mostly about the Clean Air Act &c
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3 experts · 4 posts · 23h ago
Thomas Dietterich Olivia Guest Shannon Mattern
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Olivia Guest: > No one had asked the company to launch Google Books; it seemed not to be doing it for any immediate boost in revenue. Instead, Brin claimed, they were looking out for the good of humanity. 😵‍💫 > …
Shannon Mattern: > No one had asked the company to launch Google Books; it seemed not to be doing it for any immediate boost in revenue. Instead, Brin claimed, they were looking out for the good of humanity. 😵‍💫 > …
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