Blake Elias (me/acc, we/acc) @geekblake

Writer. Researcher. Sensemaker. ML Engineer @Google Past @MIT, @MediaLab, @MSFTResearch Views entirely my own. blakeelias.name Joined July 2008

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Jörg Doku @JorgDoku

a week ago

@geekblake This has long been true, even before GenAI. Most of the value comes from last-mile, human-in-the-loop work: selecting tractable problems, coordinating across teams, integrating with existing systems, cleaning data, and closing evaluation/feedback loops. Foundation-model APIs do…

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Blake Elias (me/acc, we/acc) @geekblake

2 weeks ago

Many companies fail to deploy AI with success. But this may say more about those companies than about AI itself. AI may indeed soon revolutionize all these industries. Just the existing incumbent firms won't be the ones to pull off that transition...

Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee

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Aryaskr @aryaskr

2 weeks ago

vibe coded project works? AGI is here. vibe coded project fails? AGI 10 yrs away. thus AGI exists in a state of vibratory superposition.

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Blake Elias (me/acc, we/acc) @geekblake

3 weeks ago

Some are rediscovering this practice of having a village raise a child, as if it's been forgotten in the modern world. Yet it's been continued on by ethnic communities all over. We may not see it as visibly, but if you go behind closed doors it's happening in certain spots

Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman

3 weeks ago

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Jon Lai @Tocelot

a month ago

i've seen a few start-up founders panic at the sight of a well-funded competitor launching into their space. but the counter-intuitive thing is - more competition is good for you! here's why 1) competition validates the market - many other (presumably) smart hard working people…

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Elena Lake 🌿 @relic_radiation

a month ago

a really weird aspect of creating things I love (my bodywork modality, writings, songs, art etc) is that they will necessarily be encountered by people who don’t get them at all. …but this does not disqualify others from finding those exact same things deeply meaningful

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Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman

a month ago

Once upon a recent time there existed the "culture class." This consisted of bohemian artists, intellectuals, and the rich kids who funded & hung out w them This culture class was responsible for sceniuses such as Warhol's Factory, Gertude Stein's salon, the Algonquin Round…

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machine learning @Mlearning_ai

2 months ago

Who actually earned the IMO Gold? Both Google DeepMind’s advanced Gemini and OpenAI’s unreleased reasoning-LLM produced gold-medal-level scores (35/42 points) on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) problems, but...

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Blake Elias (me/acc, we/acc) @geekblake

2 months ago

Of course there's also this. Sometimes just focusing on the impact and sheer scale and execution matters more than a lot of other detailed considerations that could come up along the way. But philosophy is not an implementation detail -- it's actually the end.