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Read this korrent: Human civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100
Human civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100
Last stated yesterday
29 Oct 2026
EM
Elon Musk — holds since 2026-10-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040. — tap to centre the map on it
Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040.
Last stated 2 months ago
14 Sept 2026
KK
Kevin Kelly — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The probability that AI destroys human civilization is about 10%. — tap to centre the map on it
The probability that AI destroys human civilization is about 10%.
Last stated a year ago
5 Jun 2025
LF
Lex Fridman — holds since 2025-06-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI will likely kill some people on the way to killing all of humanity. — tap to centre the map on it
AI will likely kill some people on the way to killing all of humanity.
Last stated 2 months ago
13 Sept 2026
NR
Naval Ravikant — holds since 2026-09-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further. — tap to centre the map on it
Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further.
SH
Stephen Hawking — holds since c. 1996 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Humanity deserves a C- for how it adapted to the Industrial Revolution, and a C- for AI would be the end of us — tap to centre the map on it
Humanity deserves a C- for how it adapted to the Industrial Revolution, and a C- for AI would be the end of us
Last stated 3 years ago
11 Jan 2024
YH
Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2024-01-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is infinite demand for intelligence. — tap to centre the map on it
There is infinite demand for intelligence.
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Sept 2026
GR
Guillermo Rauch — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate. — tap to centre the map on it
Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Last stated 3 years ago
13 Dec 2023
SA
Scott Aaronson — holds since 2008-09-07 — tap for who they are
SA
Scott Aaronson — no longer holds since 2023-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way. — tap to centre the map on it
Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way.
Last stated a year ago
5 Jun 2025
SP
Sundar Pichai — holds since 2025-06-05 — 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
JL
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 4 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 physical AI company needs three AIs, not one — the agent, the simulator and the critic — turning deployment into a flywheel. — tap to centre the map on it
A physical AI company needs three AIs, not one — the agent, the simulator and the critic — turning deployment into a flywheel.
Last stated 3 months ago
3 Aug 2026
DD
Dmitri Dolgov — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well. — tap to centre the map on it
A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.
Last stated 11 months ago
17 Nov 2025
AK
Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-11-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anything precise enough to benchmark is also precise enough to optimize for, and modern RL training increasingly resembles the shape of the benchmarks themselves. — tap to centre the map on it
Anything precise enough to benchmark is also precise enough to optimize for, and modern RL training increasingly resembles the shape of the benchmarks themselves.
Last stated 6 months ago
16 Apr 2026
SK
Sayash Kapoor — holds since 2026-04-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. — tap to centre the map on it
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated a week ago
21 Oct 2026
PS
Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-10-21 — 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: 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 9 months ago
12 Feb 2026
AK
Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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Human civilization would be winning wondrously if we are exploring the galaxy with Von Neumann probes by 2100
Last stated 29 Oct 2026 · yesterday
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Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040.
Last stated 14 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Kevin Kelly
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The probability that AI destroys human civilization is about 10%.
Last stated 5 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds Lex Fridman
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AI will likely kill some people on the way to killing all of humanity.
Last stated 13 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Naval Ravikant
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Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further.
Last stated c. 1996
Holds Stephen Hawking
Similar wording
Humanity deserves a C- for how it adapted to the Industrial Revolution, and a C- for AI would be the end of us
Last stated 11 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds Yuval Noah Harari
Similar wording
There is infinite demand for intelligence.
Last stated 9 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Guillermo Rauch
Similar wording
Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Last stated 13 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
No longer holds Scott Aaronson
Similar wording
Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way.
Last stated 5 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds Sundar Pichai
Same subject: LLMs
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 10 months ago
Holds Jason Lemkin
Same subject: LLMs
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 15 Jul 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds Dex Horthy
Same subject: LLMs
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 17 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Patrick Collison
Same subject: reinforcement learning
A physical AI company needs three AIs, not one — the agent, the simulator and the critic — turning deployment into a flywheel.
Last stated 3 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Dmitri Dolgov
Same subject: reinforcement learning
A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.
Last stated 17 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy
Same subject: reinforcement learning
Anything precise enough to benchmark is also precise enough to optimize for, and modern RL training increasingly resembles the shape of the benchmarks themselves.
Last stated 16 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
Holds Sayash Kapoor
Same subject: OpenAI
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated 21 Oct 2026 · a week ago
Holds Peter Steinberger
Same subject: OpenAI
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 18 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds Sam Altman
Same subject: OpenAI
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Last stated 12 Feb 2026 · 9 months ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy