corey james

thinking & learning in public
into non-excludable goods and the systems that support them
born & bred in #nola

[Wojciech Zaremba @woj_zaremba]

Building AI resilience is among the most important work of our generation. We have a lot to do to get it right. At the OpenAI Foundation, this is where we’re starting:

[Chris Olah @ch402]

https://t.co/udIVxLdid5

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

I love how heavily @SpaceX leaned into photography in their S-1. The first 15 pages are all pictures, many of which have no explanation at all.

It just makes you... feel.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

We are entering a new era where the binding constraint on philanthropic startups is no longer funding.

The scarce factors are good ideas & the talent who can execute on them.

Now is the time for entrepreneurial people to start new organizations that create public goods.

[Nan Ransohoff @nanransohoff]

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history.

How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today?

I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it.

This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it.

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[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/aHOHtb1rcW

[corey james @coreymjames]

Shapley values, baby

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Compensation in Index is calculated by estimating each source's Shapley value: its marginal contribution to an agent's answer at the moment of inference.

Content that's uniquely valuable, hard to replace, or used in high-value agent work earns more.

[Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson]

A very New Orleans story https://t.co/PisjD4hEGI via @NYTimes

[𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚢 @steppedenizen]

New Orleans Style Courtyard posting will continue until morale improves.

[corey james @coreymjames]

@mspringut @megan_gafford @patrickc @tylercowen @Monumental_Labs this is awesome. a fan of both of your work, so excited to see the fruits of this!

[Megan Gafford @megan_gafford]

I was recently awarded a New Aesthetics grant from @patrickc and @tylercowen to try to invent a new ornamental style of architecture.
I’m going to do this through drawing, because just as writing is thinking, drawing is imagining. You might invent something new when you sit down to solve the problem of what your version of a thing should look like.
Link to my full project description below 👇

[Hyperagent @hyperagentapp]

No Mac Mini. No Docker. No config files. Hyperagent gives every agent session its own cloud sandbox — Opus 4.6, real browser, code execution, image gen. $1,000 bonus credits for the first 1,000 subscribers. Built by the team at Airtable.

[Cosmos Institute @cosmos_inst]

Cosmos grantees are building – tools, research, companies. We're going to start sharing what they're up to, beginning with four updates today.

First up, ex-NotebookLM engineer @HcwXd has launched @WonderingApp, focused on building tools for learning.

Wondering draws on Thought Refractor, a tool which Cheng-Wei developed with the support of a Cosmos and @TheFIREorg AI x Truth-Seeking Grant.

Thought Refractor lets you turn text into multiple visual representations (e.g. breakdowns, flowcharts, maps, timelines) instead of a single straight text summary. By moving between views, you see the shape of an argument from multiple different perspectives.

Wondering is available for download and we encourage you to try it out!

[corey james @coreymjames]

This rules

[Chris Anderson @chr1sa]

We at @RenPhilanthropy are launching a new $20m fund to support open source scientific software

https://t.co/ci2rNH53oN

[corey james @coreymjames]

@andyhennie japondi, hardware edition

[roon @tszzl]

imo mechinterp will not only be solved but have a huge impact on our abstractions and how we understand the world

[Nick Levine @status_effects]

New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud:

Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text.

Vintage models should help us to understand how LMs generalize (e.g., can we teach talkie to code?). Thread:

[James Edward Dillard @jamesdillard]

Using agentcad to build the Wright Brother's Kitty Hawk airplane. It's starting to come together!

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

to be clear, NVIDIA is NOT a car

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

And splashdown!

America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely.
Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars.

This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next.

And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you.

Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.