#2: When Thinking Makes You Dumber

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Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.The Bulletin: Cancel ChatGPT / Claude #1 on App Store OpenAI Got the Same Terms Anthropic Was Blacklisted For What AI Chat Looks Like When It's Free and Ad-Supported Developer Built Perfect Family AI — Nobody Uses It Booting Directly Into LLM — No OS, Just AI on Silicon AGI Goalposts Moved to EinsteinThe Main Article: When Thinking Makes You DumberThe Deep End: The Version of Us We'll Never MeetAlso mentioned: Qwen 3.5 models dominating local LLM benchmarks AI models deployed nuclear weapons in 95% of war simulations Sam Altman AMA on supply chain risk designation HN drowning in AI comments — meta-discourse about AI discourse Tiny transformers (<100 params) can add 10-digit numbersProduced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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