
Arrow in the knee
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Something I have never seen explained proper is *how* AI is supposed to lead to accelerating double digit economic growth for several decades at a time. I would like those making the bull argument for this to make the argument in physical terms and explain to me how ASI overcomes the obvious physical limits involved. GDP means “gross domestic production.” Production is an energetic process. It is not just measured in dollars, but in joules. Industrial Revolution level growth means an Industrial Revolution level change in joules. It means fundamentally new ways of generating energy and moving material. It also means a fundamental change in the material basis of our civilization on par with invention of pressurized concrete, steel bars, and plastics. What did this growth look like in the Chinese context? It meant replacing mud roads with bullet trains, stone houses with skyscrapers, and village pigsties with industrial farming operations that consume artificially produced chemicals in the metric tons. The ASI bulls are not just predicting that sort of change of our entire material environment—they are predicting it will happen again and again and again—once every five years or so. Is that physical possibly? Can your God-like intelligence *physically restructure the entirety of human civilization* every five years? People are too glib.












OpenAI expects AI to perform research at an intern’s level by September and at a full researcher’s level by March 2028. Read more: thein.fo/4fxUodi




Yesterday, we made GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generally available. Today, we're sharing that it produced a proof of the 50-year-old Cycle Double Cover Conjecture using 64 subagents in just under one hour. We're sharing the prompt and proof below. We're excited to see what you all do with Ultra!









Exciting political developments in the AI Safety space


It's mind-blowing how fast agentic coding has progressed in the past 6 month. It's a completely different world now.
















