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Published · transcript-backedDan Balsam: belief
8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“I think there's a pretty big qualitative difference, and hopefully, we can find ways to make this more quantitative too on when you turn on the auto research feature in Silico.”
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- 8 Aug 2026
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…the what do we solve? I I think it falls into, like, maybe three categories of things. So first, infrastructure. Very hard to set up parent training infrastructure. Very hard to do interpretability at the trailing parameter scale. Those are problems that we've solved, and we make it really easy to to do. Another is research tastes. Like, one of the consistent pieces of feedback that we get from our users is that Silico has way better research tastes than any other tool they've used. And this comes from we have amazing researchers who have handwritten every skill and prompt and tool that Silico has such that it can ask the right questions and conduct the right experiments. I think there's a pretty big qualitative difference, and hopefully, we can find ways to make this more quantitative too on when you turn on the auto research feature in Silico. And you ask it a big question and you let it run for a day or two straight of what you get versus if you had done the same thing with…
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