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Im calling this the Altman Trap

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 6d ago

A commentary post coining the term "Altman Trap," likely critiquing Sam Altman's or OpenAI's strategy and its implications for the AI industry.

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Singularity-Whitepilled Mathematician. "I hope AI can help mathematicians break out of the straitjacket of being constrained by the first natural conjecture they cannot prove, and work on unraveling the deeper mysteries woven throughout our subject. "

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-11-01 Cached

Frank Calegari, guest-posting on Terence Tao's blog, argues mathematicians should embrace AI's rapid advances rather than despair over OpenAI's release of 700+ math research papers, comparing the moment to the 1980s classification of finite simple groups.

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@dontbesilent: Nobody wants to be joked about when they’re dealing with a major problem—that’s only human. Being rich or poor is relative, too. AI estimates that the losses this time could amount to 6–7 years of Binance’s profits. Put yourself in their shoes: being able to remain as calm as they seem now is already beyond what most people could manage.

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-30 Cached

The tweet encourages putting oneself in Binance’s shoes regarding its recent major losses, noting that AI estimates the losses amount to 6 to 7 years of Binance’s profits, and calls for basic respect and empathy toward those involved.

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@Fenng: As of October, the series had surpassed 4 billion total views across all platforms and had been bookmarked over 10 million times. Total spending on computing power for the entire series exceeded 1 million yuan, yielding commercial returns in the tens of millions of yuan. That’s it? No wonder everyone says the economy is in a downturn.

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-30 Cached

A comment about a certain series: As of October, the series had surpassed 4 billion cumulative views across all platforms and had been bookmarked more than 10 million times, while total spending on computing power was just over 1 million yuan, generating commercial returns in the tens of millions of yuan. The author marvels at the high return on investment and reflects on the economic climate.

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Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-10-29 Cached

Climate activists Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks argue that both AI and the climate crisis pose existential threats driven by the same corporate power structures, urging that neither needs to end humanity if communities and policy push back.

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Quoting Ben Hylak

Simon Willison's Blog ↗ · 2026-10-29 Cached

Simon Willison quotes Ben Hylak joking that every product should be a headless MCP feeding into an agent — except, of course, his own product, whose customers supposedly love the UI.

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Anthropic Versus Anthropic (17 minute read)

TLDR AI ↗ · 2026-10-28 Cached

Zvi Mowshowitz 的长文评述 Anthropic 在 AI 安全、治理与政策上的矛盾表现,涵盖其泄露的法案草案、Dario Amodei 对 Nathan Calvin 批评的回应、METR 风险评估以及即将提交的 S-1 上市文件。

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@DIYgod: No wonder the Codex $200 plan dropped to $20 and I can't seem to use it all — I thought OpenAI had a change of heart

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-21 Cached

DIYgod joked in a tweet that after the Codex $200 plan was cut to $20, he can't seem to exhaust the usage no matter how hard he tries. He originally thought OpenAI had become more generous (hinting that the real reason is something else).

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@paulg: To publish something on a paywalled site is to make it invisible. If AIs can't find it, then for all practical purposes…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-18 Cached

Paul Graham argues that publishing on paywalled sites makes content effectively invisible to AIs, and that this reality will only become more true over time.

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Terrence Tao remarks

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-17

Article covering remarks by mathematician Terrence Tao, likely touching on AI, research, or mathematical practice.

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@vasuman: C Suite executives around America are eagerly awaiting Opus 6 and GPT 7 so that they may finally one-shot the agent-ifi…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-17 Cached

A tweet commenting that C-suite executives are eagerly awaiting Opus 6 and GPT 7 to finally one-shot the agent-ification of their companies, pointing to an analysis by Daniel, former COO of Citadel Securities EMEA, who argues it will be too late by then.

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@typesfast: In the civil war the North invented a repeating rifle that could fire 7 rounds before needing to be reloaded, but they …

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-14 Cached

A tweet drawing a historical parallel between the North's delayed rollout of a repeating rifle in the Civil War and AI companies' hesitation to push higher token usage, with Lincoln intervening to accelerate deployment.

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@VraserX: People will spend five hours a day scrolling through strangers arguing on social media, then act deeply concerned when …

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-14 Cached

A satirical tweet contrasting heavy social media usage with moral panic over people spending 30 minutes talking to AI companions, arguing society wrongly views doomscrolling as healthy interaction.

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@VraserX: Apparently generating an AI image is an environmental catastrophe, but streaming 4K Netflix every night, flying across …

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-13 Cached

作者批评公众对AI能耗的"选择性愤怒",指出流媒体、航空出行和频繁换手机的能耗同样巨大,却鲜少受到批评,呼吁理性讨论AI的能源影响。

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@VraserX: Peter Diamandis makes a good point here. AI gives more people a shot at building something around a problem they actual…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-12 Cached

一条推文引用 Peter Diamandis 的观点,认为 AI 降低了创业和创新的门槛,让更多人能够围绕自己关心的问题构建产品和想法。

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Living in the Weimar era of Ruby

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-12 Cached

一篇评论博客,探讨 DHH 在 RailsWorld 的主题演讲以及 AI 对 Ruby/Rails 生态的冲击,作者将当下的 Ruby 社区比作魏玛时代——旧秩序失序之际反而孕育出新的创造力与文艺复兴。

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@BenjaminDEKR: Iron Man came out in 2008. The tech seemed impossibly advanced. Yet in 2026 everybody on the planet with a decent lapto…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-11 Cached

A commentary noting that while Iron Man's JARVIS tech seemed impossibly advanced in 2008, by 2026 affordable laptops and $200/month subscriptions give普通人 JARVIS-level AI access.

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Slide from recent "Math 2.0" Lecture by Terrence Tao. This man has never met a terminal cancer patient in his life if he thinks no one would want to take this risk.

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-10

A tweet commenting on a slide from Terrence Tao's recent "Math 2.0" lecture, criticizing an apparent downplaying of risk-taking (framed against terminal cancer patients).

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AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-10 Cached

A commentary essay drawing an analogy between AI's rapid, disruptive scientific discoveries—such as OpenAI tackling Millennium Prize problems in mathematics—and the 'roadside picnic' metaphor from the Strugatskys' novel, where incomprehensible artifacts are dumped on fields faster than they can be understood or integrated.

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We've genuinely lost the plot

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-09

A short commentary piece arguing that the tech industry has 'lost the plot', offering a critical take on the current direction of technology and AI development.

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