Bowling-shoe Agents

This week: The Coasean Singularity, mitigating hallucinations with DAGs, emergent communication through negotiation, enlightenment ideals, Alphaxiv

Into the Market’s Mind

This week: Digital Twins of Customers, scaling collaborative effort, centaur, causal AI scientist, causal data science meeting, The Hinton Lectures

Looped Language Models

This week: Looped Language Models, less superhuman, privacy, attribute importance, political connections, musky drama, economic lit search

Inside the Fold

This week: AgentFold, Atlas of Human-AI Interaction, Industry Influence, Interviews, Pinot

Cartels of mutually satisfied mediocrities

This week: Digital Twin Mega-Study, predicting results, the curious preference for low quality, small language models, AnyUp

Moloch’s Bargain for AI

This week: Using LLMs for market research, better pricing bandits, aging as a loss of goal-directedness, verbalized sampling, giving a damn, moloch’s bargain, radical numerics

Tiny Stories, Hidden Games

This week: TinyStories, TeachLM, social sycophancy, anti-scheming, hidden games

The purpose of a system is what it does

This week: Call me a jerk, bureaucratic theory of statistics, spicy taleb japeño poppers, symbolic thought

Safe, Controversial, Unsafe

This week: Do markets believe in transformative AI, research agenda for TAI, behaviors, the sims, Qwen3Guard

Overly influenced by the architecture of the prompt

This week: Digital twins of over 2,000 people, simulation of 1,000 people, world modeling, pig-butchering, org design, wandb