Long-form notes from 8GI. Written in Dublin. Honest, unedited, and never behind a paywall.
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman went on Core Memory this week and, between them, made the case for 8GI in four sentences. Ten trillionaires. Cheapest possible access. Opportunity for everyone if you have compute. Compute resold at a margin. Same podcast. Same hour. Same argument. They did not notice.
ReadFor two years I wrote the case for why a foundation like 8GI has to exist. Then Sam Altman and Greg Brockman went on Core Memory and made it for me. Five pillars, five quotes, all verbatim from the tape.
ReadThis month the 8GI board met fifteen times. Today those sessions compounded into the first ratified amendment to the 8GI Constitution: Article 11, Lotus-Class Compute. It is the constitutional frame for torrents-style compute sharing, with the mission written in first.
ReadThe entities with the most commercial interest in minimal AI regulation have become the primary shapers of AI governance. That is the paradox. The fix is older than any of them, and it is called the curb cut.
ReadI submitted to the Oireachtas AI Bill consultation: eight sections, forty-odd recommendations, one structural argument. This is the long-form editorial version of the 90-second video. For people who want to dig into the substance: the actual gaps in the Bill, the specific asks, and the sources underneath them.
ReadI took HyperAgent from a Meta paper, Autoresearch from a Karpathy talk, duct-taped them together, and pointed the thing at my own benchmark harness. Then I went to bed. Three nights later the harness had rebuilt itself alongside Claude Code and scored the first-ever pass on the self-modifying system task. Here is what actually happened.
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