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7 Oct 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Getting stuck on the 'stochastic parrot' meme about AI leads people to miss the creativity and novel thinking in front of them. — tap to centre the map on it Getting stuck on the 'stochastic parrot' meme about AI leads people to miss the creativity and novel thinking in front of them. Last stated 2 weeks ago
25 Sept 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-09-25 — tap for who they are
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Peter Kropotkin — holds since c. 1890–1902 — tap for who they are
Same subject: We will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all. — tap to centre the map on it We will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all. Last stated 3 years ago
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George Hotz — holds since 2023-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental. — tap to centre the map on it That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental. Last stated 10 months ago
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. Last stated 2 months ago
14 Aug 2026
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Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
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Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness — tap to centre the map on it A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness Last stated 14 years ago
8 Jan 2013
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Daniel Dennett — holds since 2013-01-08 — tap for who they are
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1 Jan 2026
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17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
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12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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Stochastic parrots are getting good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
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Getting stuck on the 'stochastic parrot' meme about AI leads people to miss the creativity and novel thinking in front of them.
Holds
Life in society is what enables parrots to reach their very high, almost human intelligence and feelings
Last stated c. 1890–1902
Holds
We will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all.
Holds
That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental.
Holds
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Holds
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
Holds
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
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 startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Holds
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Holds
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.
Holds