Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

This is where extra productivity goes… does she really need a team of psychiatrists and doctors… if we have more surplus do we need to add even more psychiatrists to her team?

There’s only two people I’ve heard defend not enacting the Epstein transparency bill.. one hard right republican congressmen and the other a guy on the New Yorker podcast

Fascinating to hear Emmett on A16Z podcast: In response to his Q: how would you know something is different other than its behavior (and generally what would make you grant AI personhood)? I would say… I would need to believe that I could have been in the AI shoes in a veil of ignorance way.

Notes on Cursor 2.0 and a pelican drawn by their brand new Composer-1 coding model, which they describe as "4x faster than similarly intelligent models" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...

I’d love to see what % of public co ownership stake is of OpenAI and Anthropic

Idk the foreign policy and the ballroom seem aight, maybe just focus on the stuff like the president suing his own department of justice for hundreds of millions, or the pardons, or the forced national guard deployments across state lines

it's painful to see people grasping onto "True AGI", "datacenter of geniuses", "Year of the Agent", "Massive job replacement" when it's just clearly not the case...

definitely resonate with LLMs 1. giving over defensive code 2. unable to break out of common frameworks and apis

Ok but isn’t this kinda expert systems all over again?

Causation module; phase-shift gradient flow; something like that for rapid learning and high sample efficiency

Sample inefficiency??

Suppose your model of intelligence requires (1) NOT imitation learning (2) NOT virtual environments, and (3) NOT compressed timelines, then what BENEFIT is there to training an “artificial” intelligence vs an “organic” intelligence. Isn’t the organic more good?

I think you learn a lot about a person when you learn what is the tiny garden they will protect from slop and where they will let slop go wild.

a good breakdown of the Claude Code agent loop the key: a simple 2-layer architecture “a … single-threaded master loop (codenamed nO) real-time steering (the h2A queue)” (yes, they totally read a de-compiled/obfuscated version, but yeah dedication!) blog.promptlayer.com/claude-code-...

Too much spam to take notes this way… maybe more subdomains is the answer

He does know he is trying for the Nobel PEACE Prize right? Like put some effort into it. Just as easily could have been the Department of PEACE.

Russell, Bertrand. The History of Western Philosophy

I use ChatGPT with memory off and no longer than 3 back and forth messages

Awful story, again ChatGPT at the centre of it. The cost of a 'growth at any cost' SV culture. A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

I see this as a sort of "LLM as a judge" in the judicial family court and arbitration sense (arbitration broadly speaking)

The problem with “reasoning” models is a limited conception of reasoning. Math/CS focus make it easy for it to understand internally consistent realms, and sensemake there. It also make it easier to have psychotic breaks. But harder to make sense of cloudy information.

Like a toddler

The perception is that being a young, married homeowner with kids is structurally difficult... but the truth is I think a lot of people make it tougher on themselves then they need to... I think a lot it boils down to (perceived) opportunity cost... both current and future

I mean....

These three things seem deeply interconnected: 1) app gambling culture. 2) the only industry adding jobs is health care. 3) AI cap ex now more than all consumer spending combined. I need to write a ted talk about how.

And these vibes are self reinforcing…

google: run by phd students, llm is sycophantic, suicidal, makes weird excuses and begs for help anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes. openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis x dot ai: mechahitler

it's dizzying to watch one arm of the Murdoch empire do dogged reporting that poses a grave threat to Trump (the Wall Street Journal) while another arm of the Murdoch empire propagandizes 24/7 to protect Dear Leader (Fox News)

Owned by Murdoch too.. a reminder like Supreme Court votes that there is still room to go…

If you ever wanted to see how knowledge and truth are completely unmoored from the context-free hellscape LLMs inhabit… try writing the rules for a prediction market.

Why is the GOP trying to shut down the release of the Epstein files? Why is Trump trying to change the subject?

You start seeing tokenization every where with a kiddo: “sunglasses” is a single token

Grocery bills are rising as the planet cooks https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/foo...

🥇 I am so happy to see the Google DeepMind Gemini team **OFFICIALLY** achieved gold-medal performance. Not only did we get 5 out of 6 questions correct. What's more amazing is the official IMO graders find those answers to be clear, precise and easy to follow! 1/ deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

In the United States, staffers don’t brief the President, the President briefs them.

It's incredible how much of "AI lessons" is around model-get-smarter and no-expert-systems etc. but even still everything blows up into system-prompted systems... e.g. Grok blow-up, Replit blow-up and so on.

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

I was thinking along these lines when I read the article about how a flawed method of teaching kids became widespread that was going around earlier this week: www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

David Pfau - I'm starting to think that coding with LLMs is a bit like riding an electric bike - you don't really get to your destination any faster, but it can be much easier going up difficult hills (but you don't build up any strength in the process).

Both takes — especially in light of LLM-psychosis are correctly. Obvious answer is that memory should be turned off! personalized LLM interactions are poisonous and anti-social. Memory is ok when shared across organization or individuals. LLM-therapy should be memory less.

hot tip for people who would like to yeet chatbots in the sun: we're getting extremely close to having enough of these high profile "LLMs caused or exacerbated or anyhow were central to a psychotic break" incidents that banning use of them for children is going to start having mainstream appeal

Uh, that's not the only reason why they might be banned

"Poverty is a great evil, but it is not true that material prosperity is in itself a great good" Bertrand Russell.

unfortunately for Trump his drawings are quite good which makes WSJ more believable

Breaking news: one human remains better than AI at coding, superintelligence is only one person away :) -- oh and AGI is definitely not here yet