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17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading. — tap to centre the map on it The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading. Last stated 6 months ago
27 Mar 2026
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Molly White — holds since 2024-10-07 — tap for who they are
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Maggie Appleton — holds since 2022-12-31 — tap for who they are
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Anil Dash — holds since 2026-03-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Large language models are a bad way to do science, because they have been fed so much that nobody knows what they already knew. — tap to centre the map on it Large language models are a bad way to do science, because they have been fed so much that nobody knows what they already knew. Last stated 12 months ago
26 Sept 2025
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Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. Last stated 3 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters. — tap to centre the map on it What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters. Last stated 2 months ago
30 Jul 2026
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Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Proprietary data is not an advantage in training large language models, because no company's holdings are large enough to matter. — tap to centre the map on it Proprietary data is not an advantage in training large language models, because no company's holdings are large enough to matter. Last stated a year ago
2 Sept 2025
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Benedict Evans — holds since 2025-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read. — tap to centre the map on it Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read. Last stated a year ago
30 Jul 2025
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Alexey Guzey — holds since 2024-08-09 — tap for who they are
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Alexey Guzey — no longer holds since 2025-07-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Models have no research taste yet, which is why they complement researchers rather than replace them. — tap to centre the map on it Models have no research taste yet, which is why they complement researchers rather than replace them. Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Newer model releases have got worse at producing text that is actually pleasant to read and understand. — tap to centre the map on it Newer model releases have got worse at producing text that is actually pleasant to read and understand. Last stated 3 weeks ago
25 Aug 2026
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Armin Ronacher — holds since 2026-08-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model. — tap to centre the map on it A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model. Last stated 3 days ago
15 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one. — tap to centre the map on it Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one. Last stated 12 months ago
26 Sept 2025
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Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks. — tap to centre the map on it If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks. Last stated 7 years ago
5 Nov 2019
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François Chollet — holds since 2019-11-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. — tap to centre the map on it A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. Last stated 8 years ago
22 Aug 2018
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Drew DeVault — holds since 2018-08-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it. — tap to centre the map on it AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it. Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
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Adam Mosseri — holds since 2026-07-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs. — tap to centre the map on it AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs. Last stated 3 weeks ago
31 Aug 2026
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Ethan Mollick — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people. — tap to centre the map on it AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people. Last stated 2 weeks ago
1 Sept 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
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Academic publications are easy for AI models to consume from pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Holds Read this korrent →
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
Holds MW Molly WhiteMA Maggie AppletonAD Anil Dash
Large language models are a bad way to do science, because they have been fed so much that nobody knows what they already knew.
Holds RS Richard Sutton
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Holds GS Grant Sanderson
What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters.
Holds JD Jeff Dean
Proprietary data is not an advantage in training large language models, because no company's holdings are large enough to matter.
Holds BE Benedict Evans
Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.
No longer holds AG Alexey Guzey
Models have no research taste yet, which is why they complement researchers rather than replace them.
Holds NB Noam Brown
Newer model releases have got worse at producing text that is actually pleasant to read and understand.
Holds
A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model.
Holds
Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one.
Holds RS Richard Sutton
If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks.
Holds
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
Holds MM Matt Mullenweg
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
Holds MM Matt Mullenweg
A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it.
Holds DD Drew DeVault
AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it.
Holds AM Adam Mosseri
AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.
Holds EM Ethan Mollick
AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.
Holds