Two views of the causal chain
AI as normal tech, predictive optimization, continuous thought machines
Topic
newsletter
A collection of 38 issues
Alignment with human preferences
This week: Evaluation, measurement, span annotation, openai evolves, hegemons
Algorithmic Glazing
This week: llm finetuning, algorithmic management, perceptual possibilities, ChatGPT won’t stop glazing
Not for private gain
This week: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards, naming eras, model welfare, investors welfare
Has MCP Won?
This week: MCP, thinking budgets, disentangling cognitive ability
Who controls what these institutions do?
This week: The 2025 AI Index Report, Understanding of trade, What failure looks like
A sketch of DeepSeek-R1 thought process
This week: DeepSeek-R1, moral imagination, spicy slop
When the model resorts to unfaithful reasoning
This week: Biology of a LLM, entrepreneurs as theorists, a grammar of hypotheses
If we tell them to maximize profit, they will
This week: Economic agents, cost of complexity, complexity comes and goes
A superhuman ability to bullshit
This week: Bullshit, a comprehensive survey, labour market disruption, and possibility spaces