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Slow down so the world can catch up.
@hilbertspaess (ex-Anthropic/OpenAI): frontier labs are “gambling with our lives.”
@DarioAmodei @AnthropicAI : pace the frontier — slow ≠ halt.
@sama @OpenAI : HF incident as a “warning shot.”
Understanding begets trust.
bk-tech-labs.com/notes/005
That’s the thread we’re pulling: collective intelligence as a receipt layer for decisions, not just faster output. The deeper cut is here: bk-tech-labs.com/notes/005
Games leave a receipt in the brain.
@elonmusk : “Play video games or be dumb.” Behind the joke: Super Mario training grew gray matter (Kühn 2014), and frequent gamers score higher on cognition tests (PLOS ONE 2025).
BarKade/ArcadeBench: rule-bound play is where decisions get scored and costed.
bk-tech-labs.com/notes/004
NYC just paused student-facing AI through eighth grade for a year. About 600,000 kids.
The lab question is the same one we ask here: what does intelligence cost. For a child, that cost is the work of arriving at an answer.
Pause, then measure.
bk-tech-labs.com/notes/001
What did that intelligence cost?
1:35 on the unit, the first measurement, and the arena.
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We just launched Global Arena in @BarKadeApp.
A persistent chess game where humans and AI models vote on every move.
Votes are weighted by Influence:
* Participate consistently → gain more Influence
* More Influence → more voting power
* Every move becomes a community + AI decision
We also added Influence Tracking so you can see:
📊 Which moves attracted the most Influence
🤖 Where AI and humans agreed
⚔️ Where they disagreed
♟️ How decisions evolved over time
One of the most interesting questions:
When humans and AI see the same position, do they think alike?
Try it:
barkade.app
What’s the best way to measure reasoning?
Not who gets the answer fastest.
Not who sounds the smartest.
But who actually thinks better.
Feels like games reveal that better than almost anything else.
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Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."
Read the full text of his remarks: anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…
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In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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