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grantbel··on The First Microbe for Mars
They make the point that this particular microbe can't terraform Mars on its own. If it gets out of its bioreactor it dies so fast it can't evolve.

https://blog.pioneer-labs.org/p/when-is-a-microbe-safe-to-se...

But if you WANT to terraform Mars evolution would be useful. Recursive self-improvement! :P

grantbel··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
Claude is so mannered, it drives me nuts. I turned on debuzz and i could just FEEL my blood pressure dropping. What a relief to not be constantly confronted with this high energy paycho.

All my agents use debuzz now

grantbel··on Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
The challenge with comparing AI to humans is that the bar keeps shifting up.

It’s pretty impressive that Kosmos can reproduce the conclusions that human scientists came to de novo. Especially when it does so much faster than a human.

If the goal is to accelerate scientific discovery, this is what success looks like.

grantbel··on The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
A classic.

And it’s inspired many more grugs like grug ceo https://www.sam-rodriques.com/post/the-grugbrained-ceo