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Dean W. Ball @deanwball

Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 4h I know I rail a lot about all the flavors of AI copium but I do empathize. A few companies are making machines smarter in most ways than humans, and they are going to succeed. The cope is byproduct of an especially immature grieving stage, but all of us are early in our grief.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Dean Ball (AI policy commentator, former Trump administration AI policy staffer) reflecting on "AI copium" as a form of collective grief over AI surpassing human intelligence, framing skeptical/dismissive reactions to AI progress as an early grief-stage defense mechanism. Relevant to Nathan's interest in societal/psychological response to transformative AI and singularity discourse.

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Guillermo Rauch @rauchg

Guillermo Rauch ✓ @rauchg · 6h 10 days into 2026: - Terence Tao announces GPT & Aristotle solve Erdős problem autonomously - Linus Torvalds concedes vibe coding is better than hand-coding for his non-kernel project - DHH walks back "AI can't code" from Lex podcast 6 months later An acceleration is coming the likes of which humanity has never experienced before > QUOTED (embedded git commit screenshot): torvalds committed 3 days ago Merge branch 'antigravity' This is Google Antigravity fixing up my visualization tool (which was also generated with help from google, but of the normal kind). It mostly went smoothly, although I had to figure out what the problem with using the builtin rectangle select was. After telling antigravity to just do a custom RectangleSelector, things went much better. Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet compiling anecdotal signals of accelerating AI capability adoption in early 2026 — Terence Tao crediting GPT+Aristotle with autonomously solving an Erdős problem, Linus Torvalds endorsing AI-assisted ("vibe") coding via a real git commit message, and DHH reversing a prior "AI can't code" stance. Relevant to Nathan's interest in tracking empirical signals of AI progress/takeoff speed (cf. his singularity-tracking notes on METR/Epoch data).

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