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Dan Balsam: belief

8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

“In in in the same way that they though the mechanisms with which they happened were weird and surprising, I think the mechanisms with which bio risk could suddenly become real are weird and surprising.”

— Dan Balsam

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Dan Balsam
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
8 Aug 2026
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

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…Yeah. In the same way that, like, these cyber cyber incidents incidents is doing a lot of work is a word there. In in in the same way that they though the mechanisms with which they happened were weird and surprising, I think the mechanisms with which bio risk could suddenly become real are weird and surprising. I found it kinda heartening to see the the the letter asking…

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