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Read this korrent: Renouncing your own cognitive ability because the models are good is premature, because companies still pay an enormous premium for it.
Renouncing your own cognitive ability because the models are good is premature, because companies still pay an enormous premium for it.
Last stated a month ago
31 Jul 2026
PC
Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The knowledge a model soaks up in pre-training is holding it back; what we actually want is the intelligence with the knowledge stripped out. — tap to centre the map on it
The knowledge a model soaks up in pre-training is holding it back; what we actually want is the intelligence with the…
Last stated 11 months ago
17 Oct 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Capability does not generalise for free: a model that will move mountains on an agentic task still tells the same bad joke it told five years ago. — tap to centre the map on it
Capability does not generalise for free: a model that will move mountains on an agentic task still tells the same bad…
Last stated 6 months ago
20 Mar 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-03-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Language models will not replace good ideas, only the low-level work, so what they threaten is the ability to start a creative career rather than to have one. — tap to centre the map on it
Language models will not replace good ideas, only the low-level work, so what they threaten is the ability to…
Last stated 10 months ago
31 Oct 2025
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Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no real impediment to models running their own research loop and improving themselves at a far more rapid rate. — tap to centre the map on it
There is no real impediment to models running their own research loop and improving themselves at a far more rapid…
Last stated a month ago
30 Jul 2026
JD
Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff scenario. — tap to centre the map on it
An end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff…
Last stated a year ago
23 Jul 2025
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Demis Hassabis — holds since 2025-07-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model company may face a winner's curse: it does all the hard innovation and is then one copy away from being commoditised. — tap to centre the map on it
A model company may face a winner's curse: it does all the hard innovation and is then one copy away from being…
Last stated 10 months ago
12 Nov 2025
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Satya Nadella — holds since 2025-11-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Because a few specialists already devote themselves to superintelligent AI, the rest of us have correspondingly less reason to spend our own effort on it. — tap to centre the map on it
Because a few specialists already devote themselves to superintelligent AI, the rest of us have correspondingly…
Last stated 3 years ago
13 Dec 2023
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Scott Aaronson — holds since 2008-09-07 — tap for who they are
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Scott Aaronson — no longer holds since 2023-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own. — tap to centre the map on it
If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own.
Last stated 3 months ago
3 Jun 2026
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Kelsey Hightower — holds since 2026-06-03 — tap for who they are
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