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Assoc. Prof. of Strategy, U Toronto Rotman | Chief Economist, CDL Toronto | Co-Founder, AllDayTA | Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps (especially now)
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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A 60 Minutes report shows experts teaching models while examining the unpredictable hours behind that work.
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The Living Science team says it has published four extensions of economics papers. It uses a replication agent to try to reproduce key findings, then extends analyses with newer data where possible.
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Commenters argue for more independent evaluators alongside METR, with one saying its cultural overlap with effective altruism and rationalism warrants scrutiny—not rejection.
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A critique of Dario’s “Pacing AI” letter argues that Anthropic’s model documentation points to coding productivity gains sustaining the pace of progress, not accelerating it.