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Monday MAMLMs: Where Will the Money to Pay for All the “AI” DataCenters Come From? Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models (MAMLMs) will have value as very big-data, very high-demension, very flexible-function classification, prediction, and regression analyses. But will GPTs—Generative Pre-... 1/
March 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
...open question.” We get not one isolated “hallucination” but rather a hallucination cascade:

**MAMLMs Still Epic Fail Open‑Book, Closed‑World, Finite‑List, Obvious Ground Truth Tasks**
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MAMLMs Still Epic Fail Open‑Book, Closed‑World, Finite‑List, Obvious Ground Truth Tasks
I count this as a failure nine different successive times. There really is a unique, well‑defined answer, and where the machine has every chance to uncover it: the Hedge Knight Ashford Meadow line...
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February 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
...Profits: Who Is Likely to Actually Get Paid for the AI Buildout?: MONDAY MAMLMS**
Not many businesses not named “NVIDIA”; and perhaps not that much money by Silicon Valley-standards even to NVIDIA when all of this is said & done...
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2026-09-21 2/END
Real Technology, Phantom Profits: Who Is Likely to Actually Get Paid for the AI Buildout?: MONDAY MAMLMS
Not many businesses not named “NVIDIA”; and perhaps not that much money by Silicon Valley-standards even to NVIDIA when all of this is said & done...
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September 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Using GPT LLM MAMLMs as Your Rabbit—Your Pacer
GPT LLM MAMLMs are not oracles, subordinates, or colleagues. They are emulations of TISs—Typical Internet S***posters. If you are at all a good writer, the most they can be is “rabbits” that, in races and in training, mark and keep the pace that... 1/
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
...GPU burn. The datacenters are running flat‑out, the subsidies are ending, and the secret sauce may lie less in magic model weights than in the harness wrapped around them:

**Notes on the End of the $5 Uber Era of "AI": MONDAY MAMLMs**
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Notes on the End of the $5 Uber Era of "AI": MONDAY MAMLMs
Hyperscalers are slamming on the brakes, metering “intelligence,” and discovering that someone still has to pay the datacenter bill. Anthropic chases profits, OpenAI fights for its life, Microsoft...
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June 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
...brain:

**On-Device Local-Model "LLM Coherence": TABLE OF THE DAY**
Sunday MAMLMs: when the lobster moves In: gemma4 is teaching me about “ai coherence”...
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2026-07-05 2/END
On-Device Local-Model "LLM Coherence": TABLE OF THE DAY
Sunday MAMLMs: when the lobster moves In: gemma4 is teaching me about “ai coherence”...
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July 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
MAMLMs—Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—applied to my “SubTuringBradBot” project. Hitherto it has mostly been failure modes of various kinds, and while the failure modes have been very interesting, as to the current limitations of GPTLLM MAMLMs software technology, they have kept me... 1/
Well! I Am Finally Optimistic About the SubTuringBradBot Project!: Monday MAMLMs
Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models, that is. Hitherto it has mostly been failure modes of various kinds, and while the failure modes have been very interesting, as to the current limitations...
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May 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The LLM-Generating Machine Underneath the Dining-Room Side-Table Hallucinates Again: MONDAY MAMLMS
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The LLM-Generating Machine Underneath the Dining-Room Side-Table Hallucinates Again: MONDAY MAMLMS
The most revealing move was anthropic/claude-opus4:8's own recommended fix: get the LLM out of the loop entirely...
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July 28, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Reflexes, Desires, Actions, Emergence, & the Mirage of Machine Minds: What MAMLMs Still Ain't
Understanding complexity & emergence is more the road to understanding Turing-class entities than is the current focus on Scaling...
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June 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Indispensable Newsletter #64, by Gautam Mukunda :: What look like “frictions” are often the safeguards that we really really need to save us when our typical abstraction layers catastrophically leak and fail: examples from corporate governance, companies trying to utliize MAMLMs, knowledge... 1/
June 23, 2026 at 2:18 PM
...lline questions. Plus an aside on the absurd inefficient ignorant overkill of “modern AI”:

**Well! I Am Finally Optimistic About the SubTuringBradBot Project!: Monday MAMLMs**
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Well! I Am Finally Optimistic About the SubTuringBradBot Project!: Monday MAMLMs
Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models, that is. Hitherto it has mostly been failure modes of various kinds, and while the failure modes have been very interesting, as to the current limitations...
braddelong.substack.com
May 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
On logs, Latin, and linear algebra: learning from a stochastic parrot; somewhat awkward questions about agency and pedagogy arising from working through one ridiculously knotty sentence of In Catilinam with an LLM:

**Stochastic Parrots on the Palatine Hill: Monday MAMLMs**... 1/
Stochastic Parrots on the Palatine Hill: Monday MAMLMs
On logs, Latin, and linear algebra: learning from a stochastic parrot; somewhat awkward questions about agency and pedagogy arising from working through one ridiculously knotty sentence of In...
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June 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
...current everyday value is still narrow and incremental, not transformational:

**Rashomon-AI: Fear, Hype, & Platform Power? Or Broad-Based Productivity Gains Close Enough to Smell?**
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Rashomon-AI: Fear, Hype, & Platform Power? Or Broad-Based Productivity Gains Close Enough to Smell?
Monday MAMLMs: Where Will the Money to Pay for All the “AI” DataCenters Come From? Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models (MAMLMs) will have value as very big-data, very high-demension, very...
braddelong.substack.com
March 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
From Aiskhylos to AI-Slop: Navigating the Cognitive Earthquake of Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models
Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—MAMLMs—are already an off-scale financial-econo tech-sector earthquake as well, and they will become a…
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From Aiskhylos to AI-Slop: Navigating the Cognitive Earthquake of Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models
Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—MAMLMs—are already an off-scale financial-econo tech-sector earthquake as well, and they will become a classification-analysis earthquake as they make...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Academia & MAMLMs: The Seven Labors of the Academic East-African Plains Ape
Higher education, “AI”, and the eternal return of learning in the context of 5,000 years of pedagogical history from cuneiform to chatbots: why every…
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July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This week brought me news increasing my confidence with respect to one thing it is not: it is unlikely to be a hyperprofits engine for research labs with companies attached making money serving up calculations made in datacenters by simulated neural networks:

**Real Technology, Phantom... 1/
Real Technology, Phantom Profits: Who Is Likely to Actually Get Paid for the AI Buildout?: MONDAY MAMLMS
Not many businesses not named “NVIDIA”; and perhaps not that much money by Silicon Valley-standards even to NVIDIA when all of this is said & done...
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September 21, 2026 at 7:50 PM
An Interim Report on My Experience with Dia Browser Use, & MAMLMs More Generally
Contexts, copilots, and chatbots: A mid-course report on the AI-augmented web…
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August 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
...you want to meet and then better. Yes, with a lot of work you can nudge the TIS-emulators into desirable configurations. But that is a lot of work, done at the wrong and at a very unreliable abstraction layer. Better to say “I can do better than that drivel…” and write it yourself… 2/
Using GPT LLM MAMLMs as Your Rabbit—Your Pacer
GPT LLM MAMLMs are not oracles, subordinates, or colleagues. They are emulations of TISs—Typical Internet S***posters. If you are at all a good writer, the most they can be is “rabbits” that, in...
braddelong.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
**Wednesday MAMLMs: Notes on Zuckerberg’s "PASI" Pivot: From Adtech Moats to "Superintelligence" Moonshot**

Killing FAIR, chasing “Personal Artificial Super-Intelligence”: the fast‑second strategy is dead; “PASI” reframes AI as product platform, not plumbing'; Scale AI, TBD Lab, and nine‑... 1/
Wednesday MAMLMs: Notes on Zuckerberg’s "PASI" Pivot: From Adtech Moats to "Superintelligence" Moonshot
Killing FAIR, chasing “Personal Artificial Super-Intelligence”: the fast‑second strategy is dead; “PASI” reframes AI as product platform, not plumbing'; Scale AI, TBD Lab, and nine‑figure hires...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Monday MAMLMs: Just What Is Going on Inside the "Mind" of ChatGPT?: Images Edition
Ghostly images in the latent spaces: my image model summons panthera leo loe from the Vasty Deep. But why & how? & what does that tell us about lions, deserts, phalanxes…
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Monday MAMLMs: Just What Is Going on Inside the "Mind" of ChatGPT?: Images Edition
Ghostly images in the latent spaces: my image model summons panthera leo leo from the Vasty Deep. But why & how? & what does that tell us about lions, deserts, phalanxes, warriors, Leonidas...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
...google/gemma4:26b-mlx occasionally takes a script stdout “No new briefs to send” and free-associates that single terse line into elaborate fictions:

**The LLM-Generating Machine Underneath the Dining-Room Side-Table Hallucinates Again: MONDAY MAMLMS**
The most revealing move was anthropic... 2/
The LLM-Generating Machine Underneath the Dining-Room Side-Table Hallucinates Again: MONDAY MAMLMS
The most revealing move was anthropic/claude-opus4:8's own recommended fix: get the LLM out of the loop entirely...
braddelong.substack.com
July 27, 2026 at 11:09 PM
...Trained Transformers—take over the modern world to the extent that even the internet did, or to the extent that a proper full-fledged GPT—General-Purpose Technology—typically does, let alone what the talk of a singularity or The Singularity would suggest. Yes, MAMLMs are real tools, but... 2/
March 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Why, in his 1513 “Letter to Francesco Vettori”, does Niccolò Machiavelli so dramatize the simple act of opening a book? Why the stripping off muddy clothes, the donning court robes, the crossing a threshold into “the ancient courts of ancient men” where he asks questions of Livy and Cicero and... 1/
SubTuringBradBot & Parasocial Sociability: SUNDAY SPECIAL: MAMLMS & SOCIETY
Since Gutenberg, most intellectual relationships have involved running an author-instantiation n your own wetware; compared to that, the coming of a subtturing ‘bot is small potatoes, I think
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September 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Spreadsheet, Not Skynet: Microdoses, Not Microprocessors
The modest power relative to the size of the economy of GPT LLM MAMLMs as linguistic artifacts. Of course, since the economy is super huge, a relatively modest effect on it…
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June 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM