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“I'm kind of waiting for the Google version of Open Claw because I don't really want to share all my documents with some new service.”
“Genie 3 which is the reception has been super incredible... people are like this is you know I saw some very extreme comments being like we're in a simulation”
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“We gotta do better as a field in 2026 and stop treating reproducibility and scientific discipline as second-class citizens.”
“I have been reading a lot of science fiction recently. And I'm sure this has been recommended before, but The Culture, I think it's Ian Banks is the name of the author.”
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