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17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 1 Oct 1859 to 17 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about evolutionary biology .
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22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. — tap to centre the map on it A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. Last stated 5 months ago
8 May 2026
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David Reich — holds since 2026-05-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Competition is not the rule among animals or among humans; among animals it is limited to exceptional periods — tap to centre the map on it Competition is not the rule among animals or among humans; among animals it is limited to exceptional periods
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Peter Kropotkin — holds since c. 1890–1902 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another. — tap to centre the map on it Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another. Last stated 20 years ago
8 Dec 2006
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Martin Nowak — holds since 2006-12-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them. — tap to centre the map on it Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them. Last stated a year ago
15 Jul 2025
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Lyman Stone — holds since 2025-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Finding no selection in African-Americans over 300 years is not evidence against selection: five generations is simply too short a time to compound. — tap to centre the map on it Finding no selection in African-Americans over 300 years is not evidence against selection: five generations is simply too short a time to compound. Last stated 5 months ago
8 May 2026
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David Reich — holds since 2026-05-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If evolution rested mainly on the survival of the fittest through calamities, the animal world would go backward — tap to centre the map on it If evolution rested mainly on the survival of the fittest through calamities, the animal world would go backward
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Peter Kropotkin — holds since c. 1890–1902 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Natural selection can make no great or sudden change; it acts only by very short, slow steps — tap to centre the map on it Natural selection can make no great or sudden change; it acts only by very short, slow steps Last stated 167 years ago
1 Oct 1859
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Charles Darwin — holds since 1859-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Natural selection has been the main, but not the only, means by which species change — tap to centre the map on it Natural selection has been the main, but not the only, means by which species change Last stated 167 years ago
1 Oct 1859
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Charles Darwin — holds since 1859-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. Last stated a month ago
17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard. — tap to centre the map on it AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard. Last stated 2 years ago
2 Feb 2025
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Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2023-08-29 — tap for who they are
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Scott Alexander — holds since 2022-09-12 — tap for who they are
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Miles Brundage — holds since 2025-02-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up. — tap to centre the map on it As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up. Last stated 4 months ago
24 Jun 2026
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Lilian Weng — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional. — tap to centre the map on it Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional. Last stated 8 years ago
11 Oct 2018
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Kristina Toutanova — holds since 2018-10-11 — tap for who they are
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Ming-Wei Chang — holds since 2018-10-11 — tap for who they are
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Kenton Lee — holds since 2018-10-11 — tap for who they are
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Jacob Devlin — holds since 2018-10-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. Last stated 8 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun. — tap to centre the map on it AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun. Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected. — tap to centre the map on it An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected. Last stated 4 years ago
21 Mar 2023
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Bryan Caplan — holds since 2023-03-21 — tap for who they are
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A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.
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A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait.
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Competition is not the rule among animals or among humans; among animals it is limited to exceptional periods
Last stated c. 1890–1902
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Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.
Holds
Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them.
Holds
Finding no selection in African-Americans over 300 years is not evidence against selection: five generations is simply too short a time to compound.
Holds
If evolution rested mainly on the survival of the fittest through calamities, the animal world would go backward
Last stated c. 1890–1902
Holds
Natural selection can make no great or sudden change; it acts only by very short, slow steps
Holds
Natural selection has been the main, but not the only, means by which species change
Holds
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Holds
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Holds
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Holds
AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard.
Holds
As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.
Holds
Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.
Holds
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Holds
AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun.
Holds
An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected.
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