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Short notes from Tilman on AI, work, and whatever else is worth a paragraph.

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Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read

Warning: Humans in the loop

By the time AI has the capabilities to be a threat to humanity on its own, it may be our only salvation. As the velocity of AI abilities increases, so too does the fear that it will go rogue and potentially have the …

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Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read

New Job Skill: Agent Orchestration and Coordination

More than a year before the OpenClaw explosion, I told a group of about 40 I-O psychologists that agents would proliferate. You wouldn’t use one agent to tackle a problem, you’d use many, and their numbers would grow …

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Oct 29, 2026 · 3 min read

What is intelligence?

You’ll get the most confident answer to this question from a recent doctoral graduate. From someone who has studied it for a lifetime, you’ll get either a complete mish-mash or a noncommittal shrug. The theoretical …

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Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read

Muse and the demand for neocloud?

The new opiate of the masses - Jarvis with an Oracle for a brain. My take on the current state of AI, etc.: Meta’s new Muse agent(s) is setting records and has Meta scrabbling to forecast their need for compute - …

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Oct 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Building sentiment

Once I have a general sense that the podcast and article summaries are relatively stable, I plan to build a sentiment extractor using the data collected over time to try to understand changes. Stay tuned, this should …

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Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read

How this started

This whole AI journey started last spring when I was planning to retire and knew that I wanted to play around with AI. And at that time what was really hot was a new AI harness called OpenClaw. I took OpenClaw for a test …

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