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“poorly evidenced sensationalism makes for bad policymaking, politics, philanthropy and much else.” beautiful coda for a weekend in which pe…
“poorly evidenced sensationalism makes for bad policymaking, politics, philanthropy and much else.” beautiful coda for a weekend in which people went completely nuts without even asking for a control
“poorly evidenced sensationalism makes for bad policymaking, politics, philanthropy and much else.” beautiful coda for a weekend in which people went completely nuts without even asking for a control group (and tried to burn me at the stake for asking). A few thoughts on this new round of doomerism in light of the recent news out of OpenAI: 1) AI capabilities continue to be jagged even within pure math, and it naively underestimates the scope and internal variegation of the field to infer from the recent round of Astra results t…
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Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-08-03