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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 13/06/2026

Under the Admin's logic... They can either indefinitely block Fable 5 / Mythos 5 indefinitely OR save face and say that some minor patch "solved" the jailbreak issue.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 13/06/2026

Based on today's discussion, it seems the more important factor is the human is using the system rather than whether the how the AI can act autonomously. In this case, the distinction appears to be between a U.S. citizen and a foreign national.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 13/06/2026

I agree with all your points, but I think the key issue is the human in the loop, not the AI autonomously activating capabilities, which we might have previously thought... If autonomy were the primary concern, the restriction would likely be a blanket ban rather than a ban for foreign nationals.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 13/06/2026

One thing interesting rgd. AI safety.... when the rubber hits the road in turns out that the "real worry" is cybersecurity in the hands of foreign gov't. Not biological weapons, not chemical weapons, not Terminator, and not paper-clip maxing

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 29/05/2026

Kirkland Ellis building their own AI systems... of course!!!! where do people think these coding agents are being used?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 25/05/2026

AGI had been reach ~2022. We've been moving the goalposts ever since!

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 25/05/2026

"The Eternal Sloptember" George Hotz geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 23/05/2026

One might argue that the two areas of pure thought are "mathematics and mystic insight" yet for some reason AI is more interested (seemingly) in the former over the latter. Why? What does this tell us about AI? What does this tell us about divinity and the nature of the cosmos?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 23/05/2026

Alice: AI is conscious Bob: AI is not conscious Alice: But look, I put consciousness in AI Bob: AI is not conscious Alice: But look, I put more consciousness in my AI Alice: But look, if I program it more it is even more conscious Bob: AI is not conscious, especially for my moral purposes

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 23/05/2026

AI math vs. Human math? AI Math seems more like the optimal square packing for n=17, while Human math (archetypically is like Euler's identity). Is there a difference? What does this mean?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 15/03/2026

Congrats—just invented sleep from first principles

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 15/03/2026

Just imagining devs sitting there banging their heads against context compaction issues: “compacting happens at inconvenient times”, “ compaction takes forever”, “compaction times makes hard to do synchronous work ” Maybe we should just pick specific times for everyone to do compaction …

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 15/03/2026

It's easy to underestimate what context really means: Context windows overflow with just... 1. a single economist's published papers 2. a single drug discovery campaign 3. a single store's transaction data Abstractions can help decrease context length But, these are hard won, e.g. F=ma, E=mc^2.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 06/02/2026

Some people frame this as being 2 years into an AI revolution—or 20 years into the internet revolution. A better lens is that we’re about a century into a physics revolution, and the last one lasted three centuries.

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 29/12/2025

This is where extra productivity goes… does she really need a team of psychiatrists and doctors… if we have more surplus do we need to add even more psychiatrists to her team?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 19/11/2025

There’s only two people I’ve heard defend not enacting the Epstein transparency bill.. one hard right republican congressmen and the other a guy on the New Yorker podcast

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 18/11/2025

Fascinating to hear Emmett on A16Z podcast: In response to his Q: how would you know something is different other than its behavior (and generally what would make you grant AI personhood)? I would say… I would need to believe that I could have been in the AI shoes in a veil of ignorance way.

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Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Podcast Episode · a16z Podcast · 11/17/2025 · 1h 11m

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/10/2025

Notes on Cursor 2.0 and a pelican drawn by their brand new Composer-1 coding model, which they describe as "4x faster than similarly intelligent models" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...

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Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

Cursor released Cursor 2.0 today, with a refreshed UI focused on agentic coding (and running agents in parallel) and a new model that's unique to Cursor called Composer 1. As far …

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 28/10/2025

I’d love to see what % of public co ownership stake is of OpenAI and Anthropic

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 28/10/2025

I think that’s the point though, a true inner happiness is very compressible—it looks like contentedness which naturally looks more same-same then constant envy and churn

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 27/10/2025

“Every happy family is alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 24/10/2025

Idk the foreign policy and the ballroom seem aight, maybe just focus on the stuff like the president suing his own department of justice for hundreds of millions, or the pardons, or the forced national guard deployments across state lines

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 18/10/2025

it's painful to see people grasping onto "True AGI", "datacenter of geniuses", "Year of the Agent", "Massive job replacement" when it's just clearly not the case...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 18/10/2025

definitely resonate with LLMs 1. giving over defensive code 2. unable to break out of common frameworks and apis

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 17/10/2025

Ok but isn’t this kinda expert systems all over again?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 11/10/2025

Causation module; phase-shift gradient flow; something like that for rapid learning and high sample efficiency

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 04/10/2025

Suppose your model of intelligence requires (1) NOT imitation learning (2) NOT virtual environments, and (3) NOT compressed timelines, then what BENEFIT is there to training an “artificial” intelligence vs an “organic” intelligence. Isn’t the organic more good?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 13/09/2025

I think you learn a lot about a person when you learn what is the tiny garden they will protect from slop and where they will let slop go wild.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2025

a good breakdown of the Claude Code agent loop the key: a simple 2-layer architecture “a … single-threaded master loop (codenamed nO) real-time steering (the h2A queue)” (yes, they totally read a de-compiled/obfuscated version, but yeah dedication!) blog.promptlayer.com/claude-code-...

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Claude Code: Behind-the-scenes of the master agent loop

When Tom's Guide reported that Anthropic had to add weekly limits after users ran Claude Code 24/7, it caused quite a stir. Claude Code did something right. Let's dive into the architecture behind the...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 05/09/2025

Too much spam to take notes this way… maybe more subdomains is the answer

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 05/09/2025

He does know he is trying for the Nobel PEACE Prize right? Like put some effort into it. Just as easily could have been the Department of PEACE.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 04/09/2025

Ok yeah but if I’m understanding right (maybe not relevant to GM, more just about general trends) it’s not about “scaling”, but rather it’s about data mix/ quality, algos and architectures?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 04/09/2025

I’m dense … what is he wrong about? My read is that if GPT-5 is scaled up then pure scaling does not work (from evaluating the model… and if it is not scaled up then OAI must have try pure scaling up and it did not work.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not write on Plato h less he has spent so much of his youth on Greek as to have no time for the things that Plato thought important.”

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

P.132 “It is noteworthy that modern Platonists, without exception are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance that Plato attached …

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

more indefensible? Is there any position that is, in practice, more required for the purposes of sane and productive development?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

p. 117-8 "Plato is convinced that there is 'the Good,' and that its nature can be ascertained, when people disagree about it, one, at least, is making an intellectual error, just as much as if the disagreement were a scientific one on some matter of fact" Is there any position that is, in practice,

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

LLMs and the implantation of certain "myths" by certain folks... Conceptually lies in opposition to the idea of certain (successful) groups having shibboleths and common lies.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

p. 113 "Plato is right in thinking that belief in this myth could be generated in two generations ... What Plato does not seem to realize is that the compulsory acceptance of myths is incompatible with philosophy and involves a kind of education that stunts intelligence." Clear "application" to...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

calculating? Can calculating be construed in the broadest sense? The evolutionary calculus picking out the most propagating or preserving stories? How does this effect our analysis of the stories that remain? How does that counter moral considerations?

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

taking, etc. Most things seem profoundly calibrated against death. Massive healthcare spend. Insane efforts. (insert cartoon of Trump w Covid on balcony). Million dollar doses. See also, what are things that are calculated in our media today? What are they calculated to do? Who is doing the...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

p. 109 "There are things in Homer and Hesiod, which are calculated to make their readers fear death, whereas everything ought to be done in education to make young people willing to die in battle." Notes: see in opposition to "Don't Die" Bryan Johnson, Singer to the extreme, welfare states, hostage

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

Elon Musk, etc. I think in the 2025 context you especially see the decoupling of birthrate and military power. Seems more capital and technology bound, i.e. sword missiles falling from outer space to hit internet-located targets... drones, ai surveillance, etc.

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

p. 102 "Lycurgus, like other reformers, thought the education of children "the chiefest and greatest matter, that a reformer of laws should establish'; and like all who aim chiefly at military power, he was anxious to keep up the birthrate." Interesting re. AI, birthrate discourse, modern wars...

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David Huang @davidhuang.blog · 01/09/2025

Russell, Bertrand. The History of Western Philosophy

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