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METR-style task reliability is doubling every 40 days, on track for one model to outwork every human who ever lived by 2032. Benedict Evans argues tokens are destined to be low-margin commodity infrastructure.

Meanwhile AI policy professionals have started reading the Talmud, on the thesis that a tradition which survived millennia of adverse selection may know something about surviving recursive self-improvement.

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