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Anthropic is on a streak

A few days ago someone asked me what the point of using AI is if you're not a programmer. To answer that, I kept track of every time I talked to Claude in one day to show them what I use it for:

World economy depends on free trade of Waterloo interns

The curse of cursor

Super excited to finally share what I have been working on at OpenAI! o1 is a model that thinks before giving the final answer. In my own words, here are the biggest updates to the field of AI (see the blog post for more details): 1. Don’t do chain of thought purely via

We worked closely with OpenAI over the last few weeks to evaluate OpenAI o1's reasoning capabilities with Devin. We found that the new series of models is a significant improvement for agentic systems that deal with code. Linked below is a deep dive with more eval results and

Good reminder to dream bigger

new favorite talk: youtube.com/watch?v=kYWUEV…

The future expands the variance of human condition a lot more than it drags its mean. This is an empirical observation with interesting extrapolations. The past is well-approximated as a population of farmers, living similar lives w.r.t. upbringing, knowledge, activities,

Interesting post reflecting on Palantir nabeelqu.co/reflections-on…

never bet against elon lol

The Elon vs OpenAI is an interesting read. Here is the full thing. Fun trivia: Elon typically replies with one word-sentence within minutes. Even to long emails such as reviewing the Microsoft deal where he caught a bad clause that they fixed. lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4CDn…

100%. The idea that AI will solve intractable social problems - whether optimizing government or “solving” poverty - is so naive. These are values problems, not technical problems (with some exceptions eg cheaper clean energy production can help with some poverty)

large wordcel + RL = shape rotator

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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

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Today I’m excited to announce our Series A fundraise by Norwest 🔥 Agents have the potential to automate the majority of knowledge work - whether it’s financial due diligence, support resolution, PRD generation, contract review. Building these agents requires both data and

the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i