Humans Aren’t Models

This Week: Cognition spaces, LLMs as human surrogates, pattern matching, mechanism design, markups, agentic coding

When Machines Choose Sides

This week: Cultural compass, agent as a judge, the imagination advantage, rewriting video, financing the AI boom, Ed’s repo of Claude Code plugins, AI opinion, Ragecheck

Where Reasoning Self-Assembles

This week: Epiplexity, assured autonomy, mean field games, active inference, the hitchiker’s guide, instruct vectors

When Words Act

This week: Large Causal Models, leaving AI alone, belief states, Olaf, the highest levels of human performance

It already knows

This week: Diffusion models, transparency, employee spinouts, confidence, anti-trust, Robot Army for Good

Angels and Algorithms

This week: The emerging market for intelligence, unmasking policies, reasoning, business angel groups

Prometheus Builds a Twin

This week: Power-Seeking AI, Registry, biological data, self-evalution

Attention Without End

This week: Ultra-long context, hive minds, GEPA, HEDGE, research agenda, seeing like a software company

Adversarial Poetry

This week: Poetry as a jailbreak mechanism, recommendation dependent preferences, tornado folk science, jealousy of trade