Ben Cohen

Well,

you are Ben Cohen.

I mean, again, some perspective here and welcome everybody for joining.

Ben and I are going to talk about a topic that we probably shouldn't talk about, because I said to Ben before you all came in, and Ben said to me, every time we talk about Israel on Substack, we both lose subscribers.

So probably silly that we're talking about it, but I wanna make a broader point, and that is this.

We gotta learn to talk about any issue, A, first of all, without hating the people who disagree with us.

But B, Ben Cohen is not as quote unquote far right as I am on Israel.

Ben is like as balanced and down the middle as you can get.

Yes, all that rationalist talk about IMO contestants was onto something.

Amrith Romkhamar, Erin Wu, Berber Jin and Ben Cohen, Wall Street Journal.

Of the six members of Coxon's International Math Olympiad team, three ended up working for AI Labs, including one who also recently quit Anthropic.

Joe Benton left Anthropic's safety team in late August to join the AI Research Organization meter, later writing on X, AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this.

Premier stops short of endorsement, but praises incumbent, saying, read between the lines.

This is by Ben Cohen.

Premier Doug Ford answered questions Wednesday about future economic agreements with Toronto and the possibility of endorsing a candidate in the city's mayoral election with heaps of praise for the incumbent.

I just want to say the mayor and I have a phenomenal relationship, said Ford at an unrelated press conference.

The company says it took as many as 10,000 AI agents about 88 hours to solve the problem, and that it amounts to millions of dollars in computing resources.

Science of Success columnist Ben Cohen says this is an example of AI doing something that humans have tried and failed to do.

What the AI labs have done is use math as a way to show off the capabilities of the latest model.

So they've been able to show that these models are becoming increasingly powerful and can do lots of stuff that would've sounded really improbable and even impossible not all that long ago.

I really do.

Anyway, one of the regular writers, Ben Cohen, talks about this unsung invention of a line and how...

In the 1950s, around the time Jonas Salk cracked the polio vaccine, a metallurgist named John V.N. Doerr came the champion of a different lifesaver, a white line on the right side of the road.

For years, Dorr told anyone who would listen, and everyone who wouldn't, about his simple way of making highways safer.

All right, friend, that's all I've got.

Look in the show notes.

I will have links to Ben Cohen's story, Unsung Invention, a line about my man, John Van Nostrandor, and of course, the Admired Leadership edition of Field Notes from August 14th.

Both of these would be valuable.