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17 connected korrents · 20 moments from 11 Oct 2018 to 5 Oct 2026. Nearly all of them are about censorship .
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Japan Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Read this korrent: Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet. Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet. Last stated 2 years ago
3 Feb 2025
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2025-02-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech — tap to centre the map on it America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech Last stated 2 years ago
7 Jan 2025
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-01-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media. — tap to centre the map on it An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media. Last stated 3 years ago
20 Feb 2024
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Bill Ackman — holds since 2024-02-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation. — tap to centre the map on it Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation. Last stated 3 months ago
12 Jul 2026
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Balaji Srinivasan — holds since 2026-07-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring — tap to centre the map on it Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring Last stated 2 weeks ago
5 Oct 2026
NS
Noah Smith — holds since 2026-10-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print. — tap to centre the map on it Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print. Last stated 4 months ago
16 Jun 2026
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Ada Palmer — holds since 2026-06-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Democracies like America are more vulnerable to well-intentioned, bottom-up censorship than to top-down authoritarian suppression. — tap to centre the map on it Democracies like America are more vulnerable to well-intentioned, bottom-up censorship than to top-down authoritarian suppression. Last stated 3 months ago
6 Aug 2026
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Ryan Holiday — holds since 2026-08-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Enforcing equality against biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the project immoral whatever its moral claim. — tap to centre the map on it Enforcing equality against biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the project immoral whatever its moral claim. Last stated 2 months ago
24 Aug 2026
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Naval Ravikant — holds since 2026-08-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: European countries are cracking down on free speech — tap to centre the map on it European countries are cracking down on free speech Last stated 2 years ago
17 Feb 2025
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-02-17 — 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
DH
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
PC
Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — 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
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
MB
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
MC
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
JD
Jacob Devlin — holds since 2018-10-11 — tap for who they are
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Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet.
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America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech
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An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.
Holds
Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation.
Holds
Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring
Holds
Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print.
Holds
Democracies like America are more vulnerable to well-intentioned, bottom-up censorship than to top-down authoritarian suppression.
Holds
Enforcing equality against biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the project immoral whatever its moral claim.
Holds
European countries are cracking down on free speech
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
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.
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