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I've always felt that you can't think in anything besides thought. Words, images, symbols, etc, are all side-effects. They absolutely bend back and influence the thought process, b…

Interesting work but this strikes me as a somewhat quixotic fight against inevitable tendencies of statistical models. Reinforcement learning has a single goal, an agreeable mean. …

I think there's a critical flaw with Anthropic's approach to memory which is that they seem to hide it behind a tool call. This creates a circularity issue: the agent needs to "rem…

I wish more comp sci curricula would sprinkle in more general courses in logic and especially 20th century analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy is insanely relevant to many com…

I've been thinking lately about how AGI runs up against the No Free Lunch Theorem. This is what irritates me: science is not determining the narrative. Money is. I highly recommend…

Diffusion is just the logically most optimally behavior for searching massively parallel spaces without informed priors. We need to think beyond language modeling however and start…

Years ago, in my writings I talked about the dangers of "oracularizing AI". From the perspective of those who don't know better, the breadth of what these models have memorized beg…

I think the answer to the professor's dismay is quite simple. Many people are in university to survive a brutal social darwinist economic system, not to learn and cultivate their m…

I would love it if LLMs told me I'm wrong more often and said "actually no I have a better idea." Provided, of course, that it actually follows up with a better idea.

The author makes good general points but seems to be overloading MCP's responsibilities imo. My understanding of MCP is that it just provides a ready-made "doorway" for LLMs to ent…

I can see why some fields would have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to AI but I simply can't grasp why some software devs are. The entire point of the field is to get computer…

Research = revenue if you figure out the right idea.

Is it really a culture divide or is it an economic incentives divide? Many AI researchers are mathematicians. Any theoretical AI research paper will typically be filled with eye-wa…

I think the author has a point. LLMs struggle with what you might call epistemically constructive novelty . It's the ability not just to synthesize existing knowledge, but to ident…

You've got to do piecemeal validation steps yourself, especially for models like Sonnet 3.7 that tend to over-generate code and bury themselves in complexity. Windsurf seems to be …

>There is no real thinking involved. It’s just math >Implying I'll never understand this "They're just learning from past experience and making predictions!" argument, as if that d…

This post sounds like it wants to be a manifesto but really doesn't add up to much and lacks punch. Getting away from the algos is untenable if you use the mainstream internet in a…

The role of LLMs in research is an ongoing, well, research topic of interest of mine. I think it's fine so long as a 1. a pair of human eyes has validated any of the generated outp…

I'm of two minds about all this. As someone who has become obsessed with seeing what these models are capable of, I can confirm that they can be used to achieve unprecedented thing…

It seems like an engineering problem to me. If you don't want ASI wreaking havoc, maybe don't hook it up to dangerous things. Silo and sandbox it, implement means to lock its acces…

DR is a nice way to gather information, when it works, and then do the real research yourself from a concentrated launching point. It helps me avoid ADD braining myself into oblivi…

Interesting. I've been slowly coming to the conclusion that the way forward with machine learning is actually less "machine learning" as we've grown accustomed with it, less pretra…

This is very cool and definitely a step in the right direction, however, the question remains where exactly this formalizing module should be placed in the stack. As an external ap…

I see what you mean. Sometimes I intentionally divulge certain information in the hopes that I will influence the dominant LLM's outputs and thereby surreptitiously influence human…

My take: over success breeds complacency. Apple knows where its money is coming from. It has carved out an extremely hard to establish hardware production chain via iphone and macb…