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measuring intelligence
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open source 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: Replies on Twitter are largely LLM-generated slop Replies on Twitter are largely LLM-generated slop Last stated today
18 Sept 2026
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Armin Ronacher — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces. — tap to centre the map on it A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces. Last stated 2 weeks ago
2 Sept 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world. — tap to centre the map on it A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world. Last stated 12 months ago
26 Sept 2025
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Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality. — tap to centre the map on it A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality. Last stated a year ago
2 Sept 2025
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Benedict Evans — holds since 2025-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted. — tap to centre the map on it A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted. Last stated a year ago
7 Jun 2025
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Gary Marcus — holds since 2025-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate. — tap to centre the map on it A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate. Last stated 2 years ago
31 Aug 2024
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Ted Chiang — holds since 2024-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. — tap to centre the map on it A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A large language model is the genetic system for language: it stores the dynamics of a structure that until now lived only across human brains. — tap to centre the map on it A large language model is the genetic system for language: it stores the dynamics of a structure that until now lived only across human brains. Last stated 2 years ago
13 Jun 2024
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Sara Walker — holds since 2024-06-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A swarm of untrusted volunteers on the internet could improve models and run circles around the frontier labs, because the earth has far more compute than they do. — tap to centre the map on it A swarm of untrusted volunteers on the internet could improve models and run circles around the frontier labs, because the earth has far more compute than they do. 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: A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model. — tap to centre the map on it A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model. Last stated 3 days ago
15 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one. — tap to centre the map on it Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one. Last stated 12 months ago
26 Sept 2025
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Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks. — tap to centre the map on it If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks. Last stated 7 years ago
5 Nov 2019
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François Chollet — holds since 2019-11-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. Last stated 2 years ago
26 Sept 2024
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Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. — tap to centre the map on it A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. Last stated 8 years ago
22 Aug 2018
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Drew DeVault — holds since 2018-08-22 — 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: AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it. — tap to centre the map on it AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it. Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
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Adam Mosseri — holds since 2026-07-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs. — tap to centre the map on it AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs. Last stated 3 weeks ago
31 Aug 2026
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Ethan Mollick — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
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Replies on Twitter are largely LLM-generated slop
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A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces.
Holds
A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world.
Holds
A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality.
Holds
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.
Holds
A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.
Holds
A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.
Holds
A large language model is the genetic system for language: it stores the dynamics of a structure that until now lived only across human brains.
Holds
A swarm of untrusted volunteers on the internet could improve models and run circles around the frontier labs, because the earth has far more compute than they do.
Holds
A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model.
Holds
Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one.
Holds
If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks.
Holds
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
Holds
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
Holds
A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it.
Holds
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.
Holds
AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it.
Holds
AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.
Holds