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April 2025

10 Things I Wish Were Not True
The bleak side of AI I seldom talk about
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Alberto Romero
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ChatGPT's Excessive Sycophancy Has Set Off Everyone's Alarm Bells
What this week's events reveal about OpenAI's goals
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Alberto Romero
12
We Weren't Meant to Have This Many Opinions
Hot take: we need the experts back
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Alberto Romero
3
We Live a Hard Life in an Easy World
A diagnosis of modern ease and its emotional consequences
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Alberto Romero
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How OpenAI Plans to Capitalize on Your Growing Loneliness With AI Companions
People are severely lacking a good friend
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Alberto Romero
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Weekly Top Picks #107
Google optimizes AI for game-making / AI as normal technology / The cost of gratitude / Nvidia and the US vs. China war / Sampling is not enough …
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Alberto Romero
Everything Is Chatgptable
A simple enough idea to unlock AI's full potential
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Alberto Romero
13
I Wish I Believed What Edward Norton Says About AI
No sentence that starts with "AI will never" ends well
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Alberto Romero
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OpenAI o3 and o4-Mini Are More Impressive Than I Expected
But not for the reasons you may think
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Alberto Romero
Why AI Isn't Getting Better at Writing
The trendline is a plateau
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Alberto Romero
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AI Doomers Got the Superintelligence Thing All Wrong
Inner peace is all you need
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Alberto Romero
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