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← AI has no genuine discernment; it absorbs and reproduces without judgment.
17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 18 Mar 2024 to 27 Sept 2026.
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AI alignment
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taste
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scaling laws
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AI sentience
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Read this korrent: AI has no genuine discernment; it absorbs and reproduces without judgment.
AI has no genuine discernment; it absorbs and reproduces without judgment.
Last stated 2 months ago
10 Aug 2026
AH
Ann Handley — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Current AI systems are very unlikely to be close to achieving genuine sentience. — tap to centre the map on it
Current AI systems are very unlikely to be close to achieving genuine sentience.
Last stated 3 months ago
16 Jul 2026
SJ
Steven Johnson — holds since 2026-07-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: No one fully understands the consequences of how capable AI is becoming. — tap to centre the map on it
No one fully understands the consequences of how capable AI is becoming.
Last stated a month ago
1 Sept 2026
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The 'machine god' metaphor for AI is unhelpful and limits thinking about the technology. — tap to centre the map on it
The 'machine god' metaphor for AI is unhelpful and limits thinking about the technology.
Last stated a week ago
22 Sept 2026
BD
Brad DeLong — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI excels at certain tasks but cannot substitute for human thinking. — tap to centre the map on it
AI excels at certain tasks but cannot substitute for human thinking.
Last stated a month ago
1 Sept 2026
NM
Nick Maggiulli — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique. — tap to centre the map on it
A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique.
Last stated 2 months ago
10 Aug 2026
FL
Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI alignment is a red herring not worth the effort currently devoted to it. — tap to centre the map on it
AI alignment is a red herring not worth the effort currently devoted to it.
Last stated 2 months ago
8 Aug 2026
MW
Matt Webb — holds since 2026-08-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI cannot be both obedient and benevolent simultaneously. — tap to centre the map on it
AI cannot be both obedient and benevolent simultaneously.
Last stated a week ago
24 Sept 2026
NS
Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A deep theoretical understanding to predict AI behavior is unattainable. — tap to centre the map on it
A deep theoretical understanding to predict AI behavior is unattainable.
Last stated a week ago
23 Sept 2026
TC
Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A director's visual style can be balanced with narrative depth to create their best film. — tap to centre the map on it
A director's visual style can be balanced with narrative depth to create their best film.
Last stated 5 days ago
27 Sept 2026
JS
John Scalzi — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on. — tap to centre the map on it
A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.
Last stated 2 months ago
6 Aug 2026
GS
George Saunders — holds since 2026-08-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A gift's perceived price is part of what it does, so a drink known to be cheap fails at its job however good it tastes. — tap to centre the map on it
A gift's perceived price is part of what it does, so a drink known to be cheap fails at its job however good it tastes.
Last stated 10 months ago
9 Dec 2025
RS
Rory Sutherland — holds since 2025-12-09 — 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
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. — tap to centre the map on it
Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Agents are going to be incorporated into mainstream interfaces — tap to centre the map on it
Agents are going to be incorporated into mainstream interfaces
Last stated 6 months ago
25 Mar 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-03-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it
"Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next.
Last stated 10 months ago
25 Nov 2025
IS
Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
NB
Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it
A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
DP
Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are