James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓

@provisionalidea · Toronto · joined 15 Nov 2014

founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech. 🗣️ I have strong opinions; you will not agree with all of them. That’s a good thing. 📚 I share what I learn.

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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

what’s striking to me is how explicit a threat this is. 1.1K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

this captures part of the issue, but the broader problem is that most work artifacts are intermediary tools used to solve specific problems that can be completely obviated by better work process design. Making better powerpoints for meetings nobody needs or pays attention in is a 883 views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

h/t @zmughal for finding this gem on the approximate hit rate of AI models 460 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

Something I've been thinking about lately is that a lot of business processes aren't just about producing an end output but also about generating learnings along the way, so focusing on zero-shot PPT generation isn't even necessarily the right paradigm to begin with. 12.5K views · 187 likes · 9 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

it’s weird to see AI discussions continuously circle around the idea of inventing the social sciences from first principles (but this time for robots), on a problem that is very much a social science problem, but one that comes down to (1) understanding how people interact with, 1.8K views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea6 Sep

A very weird take I've spent the day thinking about: part of why everything feels off in AI alignment as a field, and why the field has struggled to make so much progress, may be a framing issue; it conceives of semi-discrete entities that act as agents, make trades, choose 28K views · 336 likes · 25 reposts · 48 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea4 Sep

“What AI is amazing at is: you give it 1,000 problems, and maybe it has a 1% hit rate, and that's 10 good papers a year, which is a fantastic career in mathematics.” — mathematician Alex Kontorovich Tune in to our live recording of “The Joy of Why” at ICM 2026: 13.4K views · 57 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea8 Dec 2025

The most exciting part of electrical and computer engineering to me was always the prospect of designing tools that adapt to us as we adapt to them. Some of this fascination is probably due to my background in neuro, anthro, and cybernetics, but mainly I’m fascinated by how this 47.2K views · 50 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea8 Dec 2025

sanity (accelerated improvement demands co-research between experienced human experts and machine technicians) prevails again every burst of sanity brings us closer to a soft landing 49.6K views · 18 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ ✓@provisionalidea8 Dec 2025

Holy shit… Meta just dropped a paper that flips the “AI will improve itself and leave us behind” narrative on its head and the implications are massive 😳 Here’s the wild part: They argue the safest and fastest path to superintelligence isn’t self-improving AI at all. It’s http 141.5K views · 975 likes · 165 reposts · 231 replies Open on X →

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Mediana de visualizações1 810esta conta924mediana para 10K–100K

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

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Reposts9.2%218 in total

Replies13.1%310 in total

Quotes4.5%106 in total

Bookmarks2.1%50 in total

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