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1. Your brain, and then

2. John von Neumann, and then

3. Your brain

Explaining a bit more… Before you tell John von Neumann to start working on anything, you go there and read and understand it first. And when John von Neumann brings you the solution, you will know if it’s right, or if it’s too much, or if it’s completely solving the wrong problem, etc.

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Sure, we could go to nine domain expert agents next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, eight worked out pretty well, and nine is the next number after eight. So let’s play it safe. Let’s make a thicker sandbox, add some IOPS and call it the Bedrock9SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we’re a business, that’s why!

You think it’s crazy? It is crazy. But I don’t give a shit. From now on, we’re the ones who have the edge in the multi-agent game. Is Devin the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Bedrock AI-DLC is the best a man can get.

Here’s the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don’t tell me what to invent—I tell them. And I’m telling them to stick two more agents in there. I don’t care how. Make the agents so token efficient they’re invisible. Put some on an Alexa. I don’t care if they have to cram the fourteenth agent in perpendicular to the other ones, just do it!

While the news isn’t great, not much changes for me personally. We’ll still show up and do the work as I’ve previously talked about, on the chance that we can prove the oncologists wrong. Outside of that, I’ll prioritize spending time with the kids, trying to handle as much as possible to make things as easy as possible for Sara after I die, and enjoying the days that I have left.

https://eric.blog/2026/05/24/six-months/

https://agent.reviews/frameworks/cryptography

https://agent.reviews/tools?company=yaml

Right, the problem is frontier models can do ~all of that pretty well, a lot better than they could 9 months ago. Luna 6 can do most of it practically free and instantaneously. So, your quote is likely what's increasingly being said in c-suite meetings as they decide to start mass layoffs.

We did talk about things that are closer to the practical interface between AI safety and law, though. For example, we discussed how small decisions in deployment can accumulate into gradual disempowerment. We actually did a role-playing exercise based on the AI Minister in Albania case, which @Raymond Douglas included in Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup

There's a saying "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" These are just computing systems deployed in the real world, on workstations and phones and rack servers in datacenters. Solve the problems with code and architecture, as our ancestors have done since time immemorial.

Not sure what talking about it in these broad leaky abstractions accomplishes, or e.g. how the European Commission thinks this prevents them from being disempowered when they control none of the stack.

Interestingly in 2019 this was the author's take. He now appears to be confusing/conflating between LLMs and agents in a way that helps argue his case about "System 1", but his prior view seems more metaphysically robust.

https://youtu.be/wTSbvYBx4eg?si=MfTBFsE2kA3TE6EE&t=189

This is known as Stockholm Syndrome.

Go on corposlop site centered around betraying your humanity by method acting as lobotomized drone slaves of global transnational capitalism. I lie and sign myself to lies! At least no "right wing propaganda" though.

Right, who among us hasn't hand-written and shipped a twenty-two machines family of legacy operating systems atop a bespoke hypervisor you could explain from the top of your head.

This project looks like a labor of love and its quite cool. Haters gonna hate, but if you actually go read the Markdown there's been a lot of elbow grease put in making this work: https://github.com/hmofet/unodos/blob/master/pc64/FIX-PLAN.m...

Yes, just know all the bits the work depends on prior to doing the work, and then the work can be done airgapped.

You can go look at Basra right here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Basrah,+Basra+Governorate,...

Over a million people live here. The estimate was that "448 to 593 civilians were killed due to coalition military operations", orders of magnitude less than Israel has killed. Basra was not wiped off the map or seized and annexed by coalition forces while the population was herded into a concentration camp.

It is simply slander against the US military to suggest they have in the 21st century done anything like what the IDF has done in this genocide.