The Boundary Problem
This week: Structured perspective inference, getting lost in context windows, boundary guidance, skillsbench, group evolving agents, expert engagement in treaty negotiations
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newsletter
A collection of 78 issues
The Hotter Mess
This week: The Hot Mess of AI, act or clarify, thoughtbubbles, agentic reasoning, accelerating scientific research, middlegames
The Crowd Out Question
This Week: Does GAI crowd out human creators, better attention priors, augmenting llm’s, simulating subjects, llm hypotheses, machine bias
The Rivalry Engine
This week: Team of Rivals, Professional software developers, AI consciousness, Customer base analysis, Skipping the factory, Neuronpedia, Flapping Airplanes
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