Ben Cravens

On Scaling's End

The end of pretraining scaling; chart crime; post-training boosts math and coding; economic risks; bubble talk

Aug 29 • 

Ben Cravens

On Not Predicting the Future

Why discussions about AI's future often miss the point

Aug 3 • 

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June 2025

New Zealand Should Establish an AI Safety Institute

We are currently lagging behind other developed nations on this critical issue.

Jun 1 • 

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March 2025

Debunking Arguments against the Australian Social Media Ban

Social media sucks actually, and it is good that Australia is banning it for teenagers

Mar 27 • 

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AI in the State of Nature

Why global problems like AI require global governance

Mar 22 • 

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November 2024

Simple Steps to Avoid the Attention Economy

Modern problems require modern solutions

Nov 15, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Ok, Doomer

How AI is making us all Doomers

May 3, 2024 • 

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November 2023

New Zealand: The incoming ban on phone use in schools doesn't go far enough

Pairing it with a ban on adolescent use of social media would be more effective

Nov 9, 2023 • 

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July 2023

Is openness in AI development a good thing?

It's complicated and depends on your faith in institutions

Jul 28, 2023 • 

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February 2023

The future of this substack (meta)

Some housekeeping

Feb 26, 2023 • 

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Large Language Models explained: part 1

What is a transformer? (the "T" in Chat-GPT)

Feb 18, 2023 • 

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August 2022