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So I predict that humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track.
AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsnoahpinion.blog
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In a fast-changing industry, anyone genuinely keeping up will change their mind as the developments happen.Their words
Especially in technology - one of the fastest changing industries - anyone keeping up with developments WILL change their minds when those developments happen!!
5 September
4 September
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Keeping the RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 runs as a plausible upper limit is particularly important given that recent research has emphasized the possibility that models are underestimating future warming.
3 September
1 September
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Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier.Their words
I'm not sure I like agree exactly with the oversight benefit you named of like you know open source systems keeping frontier systems in check feels more unrealistic to me because they're going to be so much dumber than the frontier systems.
31 August
24 August
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Those include that having that sense of purpose, making sure that you have a network of people, that you're socially connected as your age, and also remaining curious, open to new ideas. Those factors turn out to be almost as important as some of the physical things we do.
13 August
11 August
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And so basically everything that we can verify reasonably well with some feedback loop, the AIS are doing pretty well on. And that's sufficient to make AR and D go quite fast and to continue. But there's some parts of of developing uh aligned and safe AIs that are more subtle, hard to check, depend on, you know, detailed in the weeds things.
7 August
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we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few.
2 August
31 July
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But now, people know that, well, the risk of the status quo is actually extremely high. And so, even if there's risk in doing all the new things, well, this path also looks pretty dangerous. And so, I really think there's never been a better time for startups to to sell um and to have their products get adopted at, you know, pretty meaningful scale right out of the gate.
28 July
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Every year spent keeping your options open is a year not spent on whatever you eventually commit to.Their words
Every year you spend with options is another year you don’t spend on the thing you eventually commit to.
15 July
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Nobody has found keeping specs and code in sync worth the upkeep; the code stays the source of truth.Their words
I don't think anyone found it useful enough to like maintain a system to keep the specs and the code in sync versus just using the code as the source of truth always.
9 July
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But I also am worried about kids not learning how to leverage AI and then being sort of at a disadvantage.
26 June
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Running a model five times and keeping the best answer buys a higher benchmark score without buying a better model.Their words
Um so if you say okay well we're going to instead of just running this model once we're going to run it five times and take the best of the five responses or like ask a judge which one it thinks is best then you can get much higher scores than that model. And so it's really easy to make something that looks a lot better on paper but is actually not better once you control for the amount of test time compute.
4 June
From one piece The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, like with lawyers particularly, you need some entity to back up the product. You need kind of like an ownership of the product. You need somebody to be able to fire or or hire, like licensing issues. There's a lot of like sort of like regulatory layers that are like also going to be keeping even if there's no relational element human in the loop that have nothing to do with like the ability of the human to actually perform the service.
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Some firms are laying people off mainly so as not to look behind on AI, in a cascade of keeping up with the Joneses.Their words
let's say we get into a narrative where like if you're a firm and you're not laying people off, then you're seen as like not adapting AI enough. So like then you'll get you're going to just get a cascade effect of firms like just needing to keep up with the Joneses in terms of like starting to lay people off.
3 June
2 June
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I think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.
10 May
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Europe is not in economic decline; by the measures that matter most it is keeping up with the United States.Their words
Moreover, by many measures — arguably the most important measures — Europe is, in fact, keeping up with the United States.
20 April
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IncorruptibleTheir words
The Lean Startup helps you build a valuable company. Incorruptible is about how and why to protect it, keeping a company mission-driven over the long term instead of letting it rot from the inside.
19 March
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one of the magic tricks about these things is that they they're incredibly consistent. If you've got a code base with a bunch of patterns in, they will follow those patterns almost to a T.
25 February
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Likedrcmnd.app
You’re Not ListeningTheir words
Being a great listener when people speak. Deep insights about understanding, connection, helping people express themselves, overcoming assumptions, the ethics of gossip, and more. Specific techniques for the support response, encouraging elaboration, and keeping it balanced. You can’t be ethical without being a good listener. When people say, “I can’t talk right now,” what they really mean is “…
12 February
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I- i- like, we are in a stage where I'm not building the code base to be perfect for me, but I wanna build a code base that is very easy for an agent to navigate.
15 December 2025
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So this is a filter. Like if I'm talking to you, it takes effort to put it down on the page. I don't record anything that I've filtered it. It's interesting enough to me that it belongs on the page.
28 November 2025
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Dripper diameter, with other brew variables held fixed, does not change extraction or taste — only batch size.Their words
changing the dripper diameter, keeping all other important variables fixed, has no impact on the brew mechanics and the resulting cup, in an "idealized" scenario
25 November 2025
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The Roman Empire, therefore, is actually not necessary for keeping industry going.
6 September 2025
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Things 3Their words
I use Things 3 extensively for keeping on top of to-dos. It's got to be one of the most well-designed macOS and iOS apps out there!
15 July 2025
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As a result, natural selection is very unlikely to have produced in humans any predisposition or preference for a certain number of births.
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
9 August 2024
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Fear and vanity, not a lack of ideas, are what keep most people from building new things.Their words
There seems to be a million reasons and two opposing forces keeping us in inaction: fear and vanity.
22 March 2024
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Now, does that mean that every UFO sighting in the world has been a U-2? No, but I come from it from that lane of thinking, and there are so many strategic deception campaigns, and as I look over the decades of how these same UFO stories, and again, this is just my opinion based on my reporting, this narrative that keeps reoccurring, it seems to me like a very large catch- all to keep the public’s attention on that, not on that.
17 November 2023
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Ukraine should have kept its nuclear weapons in 1993, and keeping them would have made this war far less likely.Their words
So that's why I argued in '93 that if Ukraine kept its nuclear weapons that made war down the road much less likely. And I believe I was correct.
14 July 2023
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