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links 8/12/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/08-12-2025
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-5s-are-alive-outside-reactions Zvi Mowshowitz on GPT-5. it may be an improvement (especially GPT-5 Thinking) and this article motivated me to try it out, but tbh I now have bad vibes about OpenAI as a company. they remind me of Facebook -- relentlessly focused on consumer growth, hence not really aligned with my interests as a customer who hates "trashiness".
- https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/prioritizing-fundamental-capabilities Convergent Research's research priorities. basically every one of them gets a "yes this" from me.
- https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults a pretty good article by Ozy Brennan! not a hostile piece, more of a "here's how to spot the kind of group you may deeply regret joining" thing, which seems like advice many people could use.
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I'm not quite sure and am curious what trashiness means in this context.
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sycophancy, monetization, crowding my eyeline with extraneous stuff, basically optimizing for the marginal user (who is kinda dumb)
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