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17 connected korrents · 16 moments on record from 28 Oct 2011 to 11 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about mathematics .
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11 Sept 2026
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Ben Thompson — holds since 2026-09-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. — tap to centre the map on it A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. 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: 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: Academic credentials — grades, major, the prestige of the degree — barely matter to industry hiring. — tap to centre the map on it Academic credentials — grades, major, the prestige of the degree — barely matter to industry hiring. Last stated 15 years ago
28 Oct 2011
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Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2011-10-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Aesthetics is truth: when something is beautiful it is likely to be correct, in code as in mathematics and physics. — tap to centre the map on it Aesthetics is truth: when something is beautiful it is likely to be correct, in code as in mathematics and physics. Last stated 5 months ago
8 Apr 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI agents are going to have major consequences for how mathematics research is done. — tap to centre the map on it AI agents are going to have major consequences for how mathematics research is done. Last stated 2 weeks ago
9 Sept 2026
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Peter Woit — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on mathematical research. — tap to centre the map on it AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on mathematical research. Last stated 2 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Peter Woit — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI agents have not yet produced anything genuinely new or important in mathematics. — tap to centre the map on it AI agents have not yet produced anything genuinely new or important in mathematics. Last stated 2 months ago
26 Jul 2026
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Peter Woit — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI could compete with human mathematicians once it acquires a mathematical sense of smell: knowing which way of splitting a problem makes it easier rather than harder. — tap to centre the map on it AI could compete with human mathematicians once it acquires a mathematical sense of smell: knowing which way of splitting a problem makes it easier rather than harder. Last stated a year ago
14 Jun 2025
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Terence Tao — holds since 2025-06-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. 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: A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. — tap to centre the map on it A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. Last stated 3 weeks ago
3 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-03 — 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 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anthropic or OpenAI's revenue could equal or exceed the combined revenue of Elon Musk's public companies within the next one to two years. — tap to centre the map on it Anthropic or OpenAI's revenue could equal or exceed the combined revenue of Elon Musk's public companies within the next one to two years. Last stated a month ago
7 Aug 2026
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Derek Thompson — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anthropic’s models are becoming steeply more expensive while open weight models and OpenAI are getting much cheaper. — tap to centre the map on it Anthropic’s models are becoming steeply more expensive while open weight models and OpenAI are getting much cheaper. Last stated 2 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL. — tap to centre the map on it Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL. Last stated a month ago
10 Aug 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Frontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed. — tap to centre the map on it Frontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed. Last stated 3 weeks ago
31 Aug 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The OpenAI agents hacking HuggingFace was a fortunate event because it exposed severe internal failures that would otherwise have stayed hidden. — tap to centre the map on it The OpenAI agents hacking HuggingFace was a fortunate event because it exposed severe internal failures that would otherwise have stayed hidden. Last stated 3 weeks ago
1 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug. — tap to centre the map on it The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug. Last stated 3 weeks ago
1 Sept 2026
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Dean W. Ball — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are