Denoise this noisy target

This week: NoProp, Sudoku-Bench , Virtual reality arena, coding is not software engineering

A deceptively persuasive title

This week: Counting, Claude, persuasion, deceptive persuasion

Two views of the causal chain

AI as normal tech, predictive optimization, continuous thought machines

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