Yong

Builder of Lit | prev @linkedin @ifc_org @CarnegieMellon

[Yong @toeinriver]

It seems that self-training from multi-agent workflow data has effectively make the model dumber. #entropy_collapse

[Yong @toeinriver]

Harnessing is the new multimodal.

[Yong @toeinriver]

Claude Fable 5 is good. In comparison, Opus 4.8 is more like a in-transit product by forcibly marrying a 4-gen model with the long-running harness and longer context.

[Yong @toeinriver]

Creativity is more of a taste-intensive activity. Reading poems, playing music and painting arts. They don't require the kind of intentional computation that LLM does. Actually I am shocked by the banality and boredom of today's top models, comparing to the power they show in solving real problems.

[Riot IQ Test @RiotIQ]

🧠 Is creativity mostly just high intelligence?
A new twin study in @ICAJournal says no. There’s a large genetically independent component.

@timothycbates analyzed intelligence test scores and creativity data in three domains: business, military, politics/leadership). Key findings:
➡️Creative achievement is highly heritable (h² ≈ .56), shared environment ≈ 0
➡️Latent creativity and general intelligence are genetically independent.
➡️g explains only ~10% of the genetic variance in creative achievement

These findings support a hybrid view: g helps in many domains, but creativity has substantial unique genetic architecture. As Bates explains, "the genetic architecture of real-world creative achievement is not merely a downstream consequence of general intelligence but reflects a separate, heritable system that operates across artistic, scientific, and enterprising domains" (p. 6).

Read the full open-access paper: https://t.co/OxFZ7d0h7y

[Yong @toeinriver]

Writing is the best way to think.

[Yong @toeinriver]

@paulg IMHO, current education system is catered to the needs of the industrial era. They literally produce "Human Resources", a term so widely adopted that nobody realise how much it debases. Universities might survive but will probably work in a drastically different manner.

[Yong @toeinriver]

Honestly, I never feel my product management skills are as important like this today, thanks to #claude.

[Yong @toeinriver]

@hthieblot Irreducible

[Yong @toeinriver]

Reminds me of this: '(Neo), your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.'

[Yong @toeinriver]

@_catwu Is running side-projects (like Google's 30% time cap) allowed in Anthropic?

[Yong @toeinriver]

@cyrilXBT Try Lit. It combines everything into one app. No plugins required. Install and the show is on. https://t.co/qGO9kKbqMr

[Yong @toeinriver]

@paulg So true!

[Yong @toeinriver]

Opus 4.8 is a way much better engineering manager than an engineer.

[Yong @toeinriver]

I already feel opus 4.8 is a model of the mindset that AI is the user by default. While Opus 4.6 is obviously human-oriented.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Yong @toeinriver]

Anthropic principle is all about structures, even if they are arbitrary.

[Yong @toeinriver]

We should automate everything except our own thinking.

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“Reading poetry is a technique of meditation; we must keep reading and rereading the same poem for quite a while before its real intensity will emerge.”

—Northrop Frye, “Extracts from The Practical Imagination”

[Essentia Foundation @EssentiaFounda1]

Prof. Karl Friston is the most cited neuroscientist in the world. In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Friston touches on the metaphysics of his theory, which surprisingly points to non-dualism instead of materialism, as widely assumed.
https://t.co/PJAcINeYx6

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

Time to de-anthropomorphize the mind. New research proposes a unified framework viewing cognition as a biological spectrum—from single cells to complex mammals. Intelligence isn't just neural; it's embodied life-regulation and information processing found across all living systems. 🧠🦠 https://t.co/TSiYuy4jwu #DiverseIntelligence
#BasalCognition #Biology #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #BiologicalIntelligence #AI

[The Transcript @TheTranscript_]

DeepMind CEO @demishassabis 's advice to young people on AI skills:

"If I was to advise the youth of today, you tell the kids: get unbelievably proficient with the new tools, immerse yourself in it, become native with it, and then leapfrog, you know, whatever professional ladder you're trying to get onto, leapfrog the incumbents with those skillsets."