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20:48

2026-08-02

seanhelvey.com

artificial-intelligence

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

In a commentary on AI market exuberance, Michael Pollan's coevolutionary tulip metaphor is applied to the current boom in GPU compute and language models, with the author arguing that AI systems are '…

14:36

2026-07-04

traceinstitute.org

ai-research

Trace Institute

The Trace Institute, a nonprofit research initiative led by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash, is developing a mathematical theory that formalizes the observer as fundamental to reality, proposing tha…

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Trace Institute 1 Chetan Prakash 1 Conscious Agent Theory 1 Trace Chain Theorem 1 Fitness-Beats-Truth theorem 1 Michael Pollan 1 Yann LeCun 1 Sam Altman 1

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ai research 2 ai ethics 2 neural networks 1 large language models 1 ai safety 1 artificial intelligence 1