The Rivalry Engine
This week: Team of Rivals, Professional software developers, AI consciousness, Customer base analysis, Skipping the factory, Neuronpedia, Flapping Airplanes
Christopher Berry
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