Systems Thinking, System Three

This week: AI Wrapped, molecular structure of thought, privacy preservation, builder pro-worker AI, System Three thinking, food webs, the health effects of naggers

The Boundary Problem

This week: Structured perspective inference, getting lost in context windows, boundary guidance, skillsbench, group evolving agents, expert engagement in treaty negotiations

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