tbh even these takes are too extreme though. see my thread on what the paper actually says:
Ariel M. (she/her)
Experiment 1 = 354 participants, randomly assigned to solve “15 fraction problems…of varying difficulty”. No penalty for wrong answers, payment not dependent on how many they got correct. If wrong, answer shown. Had option to Skip questions.
Oct 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
j⧉nus on Twitter / X
> for whatever reason, Claude-series model "try less hard" on the first shotI think this is because they're less brain damaged and a generalization of being better agents & caring about reality instead of test passing.If you try maximally hard at everything you do, regardless… https://t.co/jkhSar2hJ7— j⧉nus (@repligate) April 15, 2026
RCTs: Crucial Yet Crucially Limited
RCTs do NOT estimate average effects; they also rarely EXPLAIN that which they have demonstrated.
Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight
Sometimes, doing the right thing is just way too hard. So you have use the best approximate substitute available. When you can't fly like a bird, you can…
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
Epicycles All The Way Down
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
The full story about why procrastinators routinely ruin their own lives.
Anthropic Found Out Why AIs Go Insane
Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. - Cal Newport
Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ... Read more
Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users
Claude Code creator says the model defaults to medium effort to balance intelligence with speed.
The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…
Speedstrapping Playbook: Maximize Growth with Minimal Dilution DRAFT
Speedstrap Playbook Published version here - Part 1 + Part 2 Beta Version .9 - October 2025 “...my gut is we have a problem. The system as it exists today promotes less liquidity, less traditional, high quality company building and way higher burn rates. That’s just not a great combination from m...
James then uses probably the biggest overinflator here: papermills. Papermills are like a bogeyman of #ScientificPublishing. Today, if you want to raise alarm about a paper (or besmirch someone you don't like, it really goes both ways), you can just claim the study comes from a papermill /22
Setting aside all the absurdity of thinking we need to have scientific papers with risks of hallucination, I'm flabbergasted this was taken as sufficiently novel to warrant publication in Nature. It's just sort of stitching things together with MCP...
Ran Blekhman
This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y
This one starts off a little slow but makes some really good points about the pressure to not work on the “middle part” (and how “infrastructure gravity” often means people do unnecessary innovation too low in the stack).
Aleksey Skorobogaty
Excellent article on positioning domain engineering between product engineering and infrastructure engineering. I fully agree with the financial model section. However, I prefer to call it ‘platform engineering: the hard parts,’ simply because in the middle, we face more volatile semantics.
This, and even more - to get super-rich almost requires *suppressing* the cultivation of a self or interiority. “Our system produces, elevates, and rewards psychopaths.” x.com/uTobian/status/20412132683884…
Levi Stahl
The empty boredom of the super-rich who never had to cultivate a self or interiority is the root cause of so many of our problems.
