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

Verification, backtracking, subgoal setting

This week: State anxiety, SimpleQA, self-improving reasoners (verification, backtracking, subgoal setting and something else…)

Feedback loops with the outside world

This week: Catastrophic risks, external validity, trust, machine assisted proofs

A narrative compelling enough to float

This week: Concentrated power, loopholes, AI pact, owners

The Unbearable Slowness of Being

This Week: Why do we live at 10 bits/s, the Anthropic economic index, our Icarus moment

At the edge of human reasoning

This week: Decoding-based regression, dataviz AI adoption, entrepreneurial resource mobilization, Knightian uncertainty

Self-Preference Your Way In Here

This week: Self-preferencing, a handy ChatGPT chart, exporting dictatorship tools, and brain dynamics

Competing with the platform

This week: Platform competition, professional autonomy, search fatigue