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Oct 26

Who Pays for Tariffs? The 2026 Update

Who Pays for Tariffs? The 2026 Update

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Oct 21

The Way Too Hard Basket

The Way Too Hard Basket

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Oct 14

The Last Time We Tried to Put Common Sense Into a Computer

In 1984, the missing ingredient in AI was common sense. Forty-two years later, we are still debating what happens when a machine finally…

The Last Time We Tried to Put Common Sense Into a Computer

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Oct 10

We Have the Proof. Where Is the Search?

The published conversation with GPT-6 Astra shows how a mathematical argument developed. It leaves out much of the computation that…

We Have the Proof. Where Is the Search?

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Sep 12

Show Me the Loop: The AI Doom Scenarios, Catalogued

The best AI doom scenarios are detailed enough that we can stop arguing about magic and start drawing the loops.

Show Me the Loop: The AI Doom Scenarios, Catalogued

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Aug 31

Neither a Civilization Nor a Toaster

Origins, not asymptotes. What the OpenAI agent incident changes about the frozen map, and what it does not.

Neither a Civilization Nor a Toaster

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Aug 30

Where Is Gavaskar?

A viral list, a missing name, and the difference between a lonely hundred and a great one.

Where Is Gavaskar?

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Aug 12

Taste Has No Denominator

Machine intuition may have a number. Taste still doesn’t.

Taste Has No Denominator

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Aug 7

India chose the whole Internet

India chose the whole Internet

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Aug 5

The Verifier Bottleneck

Why recursive self-improvement is limited by verification, not computation.

The Verifier Bottleneck

Vishal Misra

Vishal Misra

1.95K followers

RKS Family Professor of CS @Columbia, Vice Dean Computing and AI, Dean Data analytics/Minority owner at San Francisco Unicorns, advisor @Dream11..

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