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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 9 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 4 months ago
13 May 2026
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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 11 months 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 7 months ago
13 Feb 2026
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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 9 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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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
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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 4 weeks ago
11 Aug 2026
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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 5 months ago
27 Mar 2026
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Molly White — holds since 2024-10-07 — tap for who they are
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Maggie Appleton — holds since 2022-12-31 — tap for who they are
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Anil Dash — holds since 2026-03-27 — 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 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 10 months ago
17 Nov 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-11-17 — 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 joke it told five years ago. 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: Humans barely use reinforcement learning for intelligence — what RL they do use goes into motor tasks, not problem solving. — tap to centre the map on it Humans barely use reinforcement learning for intelligence — what RL they do use goes into motor tasks, not problem solving. 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: A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. — tap to centre the map on it A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. Last stated 5 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. — tap to centre the map on it A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. Last stated 3 years ago
14 Dec 2023
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Jeff Bezos — holds since 2023-12-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has. — tap to centre the map on it A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has. Last stated 3 years ago
28 Jul 2023
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Cory Doctorow — holds since 2023-07-28 — 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.
Holds Read this korrent →
LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether
Holds
The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.
Holds AH Anders Hejlsberg
Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware.
Holds
Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.
Holds DA Dario Amodei
There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.
Holds IS Ilya Sutskever
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.
Holds MZ Mark Zuckerberg
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.
Holds RG Ryan Greenblatt
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
Holds MW Molly WhiteMA Maggie AppletonAD Anil Dash
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 GM Gary Marcus
A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.
Holds TC Ted Chiang
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 SC Sean Carroll
A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.
Holds
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.
Holds
Humans barely use reinforcement learning for intelligence — what RL they do use goes into motor tasks, not problem solving.
Holds
A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost.
Holds TP Thuan Pham
A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system.
Holds JB Jeff Bezos
A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.
Holds CD Cory Doctorow