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Alex Cheema - e/acc I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. 671B parameters in an M&S bag on the train to Oxford. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.

100+ builders have already applied. Only a few weeks left to join in our first round. We’re backing open-source AI projects that: 1️⃣ Defend a marketplace of ideas 2️⃣ Promote truth-seeking through inquiry 🕒 Deadline: July 1 🔗 cosmosgrants.org/truth

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr… Owning your memex. Post-hoc ontologization. MCP as OLE. The small alignment problem. Below the API. The end of the metacrap fallacy? Self-refining context. Software's principal agent problem. Monkey paw intelligence

Managed to attend another session of Cosmos Institute + University of Oxford AI x Philosophy seminar. "Cognitive Autonomy in the Epistemic Commons: Designing for Longitudinal Investigation of Human-AI Cognitive Systems" Great stuff - more ahead after further reflection.

Learning to build with AI must be paired with inquiry about what to build. Cosmos exists to support a new kind of builder—technologists who think deeply about human flourishing and the systems that sustain it. This week University of Oxford: Cognitive Autonomy in the Epistemic Commons

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them — Alfred North Whitehead Automation is a gift, until it becomes a crutch. Our challenge with AI is how to offload effort without outsourcing thought.

Every technological revolution presents a choice: Build for freedom—or watch as others build for control. Today with AI, we face this choice. New from Cosmos ⬇️

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$1M in grants. 2 weeks left. Together with @theFIREorg we’re funding open-source AI projects built to strengthen truth-seeking. If you want to build AI that: - defends inquiry - challenges groupthink - helps humans reason better Apply by July 1: cosmosgrants.org/truth

New paper from Cosmos Grant winner Jad Esber 💥 and team! Their work & why it matters ⬇️

“You have no choice about whether to have a philosophy.”

“The singularity, if it comes, should not be monotone." New from Alex Komoroske, part of the Cosmos Grants team: – The risks of single-provider AI – Why that future isn’t inevitable – A vision for intentional technology 📖 substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/cosmo…