maximizing long-term happiness of the human population is just an applied research problem

phrases which take on a different meaning when you work at the AGI lab: “my research was going slowly at first, but now it’s finally starting to show signs of life”

went under the radar but here’s yet another AGI manifesto that’s really worth reading

what do ppl love/hate about ChatGPT memory? in what cases is it useful? in what cases does it fall short?

this is one of my favorite charts; IEA expert solar forecasts each year vs actual installations people are really bad at wrapping their heads around exponentials

We build ChatGPT to help you thrive in the ways you choose — not to hold your attention, but to help you use it well. We’re improving support for tough moments, have rolled out break reminders, and are developing better life advice, all guided by expert input.

Yeah

happy 8/7 to those who celebrate

gpt-5 fast facts: 1. hits sota on pretty much every eval 2. way better than claude 4.1 opus at swe 3. >5× cheaper than opus 4. >40% cheaper than sonnet 5. best writing quality of any model 6. way less sycophantic

irl verbosity parameter when ….

there’s something about waking up to watch an OpenAI livestream and see the frontier of intelligence march forward that feels generationally special, like watching a man on the moon in 20 years, I’m still gonna remember exactly where I was for each major model drop

find / -type f -name “CLAUDE.md” -exec rename ‘s/CLAUDE\.md$/AGENTS.md/‘ {} +

doing good Science means you’re having fun

“I never see you at the club” I never see you just hanging out in the digital ether

highly recommend connecting your GCal and Gmail to ChatGPT a few steps closer to it becoming a true personal assistant