August 2026 notes on stubs
August 2026 notes on stubs
Longer focus posts I want to write or find
Using AI kind of involves interacting with other people
Using AI kind of involves interacting with other people
A focused note on generative AI use as mediated interaction with upstream human contributors.
Scoping AI dividend policies
Scoping AI dividend policies
Independent AI auditors can help determine which firms and models should fall within AI-targeted economic policies.
N-gram search as posterior updating for data attribution
N-gram search as posterior updating for data attribution
A short argument that model outputs and training-data priors can improve rough approximations of data attribution.
Augmentation is a data flow problem
Augmentation is a data flow problem
A short argument that "augment, do not replace" is about data control.
AI progress as quasi-public good production
AI progress as quasi-public good production
A short argument that AI systems pool diffuse human work into privately governed, public-good-like model weights.