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Read this korrent: We are not building animals, we are summoning ghosts: entities made by imitating human text rather than by evolution.
We are not building animals, we are summoning ghosts: entities made by imitating human text rather than by evolution.
Last stated a year ago
17 Oct 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether — tap to centre the map on it
LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether
Last stated 10 months ago
19 Dec 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-12-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder. — tap to centre the map on it
The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.
Last stated 5 months ago
13 May 2026
AH
Anders Hejlsberg — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware. — tap to centre the map on it
Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware.
Last stated a year ago
17 Oct 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution. — tap to centre the map on it
Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.
Last stated 8 months ago
13 Feb 2026
DA
Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it. — tap to centre the map on it
There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.
Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
IS
Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An AI copy of a person is worth building while they are alive, to meet demand for their attention, not as a way to talk to the dead. — tap to centre the map on it
An AI copy of a person is worth building while they are alive, to meet demand for their attention, not as a way to talk to the dead.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 Sept 2023
MZ
Mark Zuckerberg — holds since 2023-09-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool. — tap to centre the map on it
Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool.
Last stated 2 months ago
11 Aug 2026
RG
Ryan Greenblatt — holds since 2026-08-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading. — tap to centre the map on it
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
Last stated 7 months ago
27 Mar 2026
MW
Molly White — holds since 2024-10-07 — tap for who they are
MA
Maggie Appleton — holds since 2022-12-31 — tap for who they are
AD
Anil Dash — holds since 2026-03-27 — 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 2 days 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: 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. — tap to centre the map on it
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.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy. — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
27 Sept 2026
MG
Molly Graham — holds since 2026-09-27 — 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 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
GS
Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build. — tap to centre the map on it
AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build.
Last stated 5 months ago
26 May 2026
CB
Carlos Alexandro Becker — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out. — tap to centre the map on it
"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.
Last stated 7 months ago
19 Mar 2026
KP
Kris Puckett — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.
Last stated 2 months ago
3 Sept 2026
DR
Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do. — tap to centre the map on it
A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do.
Last stated 7 months ago
19 Mar 2026
KP
Kris Puckett — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
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We are not building animals, we are summoning ghosts: entities made by imitating human text rather than by evolution.
Last stated 17 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether
Last stated 19 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy
Similar wording
The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.
Last stated 13 May 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds Anders Hejlsberg
Similar wording
Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware.
Last stated 17 Oct 2025 · a year ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy
Similar wording
Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.
Last stated 13 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds Dario Amodei
Similar wording
There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.
Last stated 25 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds Ilya Sutskever
Similar wording
An AI copy of a person is worth building while they are alive, to meet demand for their attention, not as a way to talk to the dead.
Last stated 28 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Mark Zuckerberg
Similar wording
Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool.
Last stated 11 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Ryan Greenblatt
Similar wording
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
Last stated 27 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Molly White Maggie Appleton Anil Dash
Same subject: OpenAI
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated 21 Oct 2026 · 2 days 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
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.
Last stated 18 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds Sam Altman
Same subject: AI writing
A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds Molly Graham
Same subject: AI writing
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 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds Grant Sanderson
Same subject: AI writing
AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build.
Last stated 26 May 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds Carlos Alexandro Becker
Same subject: Anthropic
"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.
Last stated 19 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Kris Puckett
Same subject: Anthropic
A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.
Last stated 3 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Dax Raad
Same subject: Anthropic
A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do.
Last stated 19 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Kris Puckett