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8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“If we live in a world where, like, we can build something where agents are so capable that they can conduct, like, long meet the type of, like, impactful long horizon research and say, discovers a cure to a disease entirely by themselves with no human intervention, I think there will be enough demand to for the for the tokens in in that world.”
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…need very, very high taste. As as models get higher taste, you need even higher taste people to be able to steer them effectively. And I foresee that being true for the considerable future. If we live in a world where, like, we can build something where agents are so capable that they can conduct, like, long meet the type of, like, impactful long horizon research and say, discovers a cure to a disease entirely by themselves with no human intervention, I think there will be enough demand to for the for the tokens in in that world. But currently, we're in a world where where skilled human operators can do more with agents than less skilled human operators. And I think that'll just continue to be true. And when it comes to the work that we do and the type of research that we do, we are the most skilled human operators in the world. And so I think, like, we'll continue to forward deploy and work closely with people to teach them what they know, what we know, to invent new things with them. But we also wanna empower people to start driving for themselves. So what's included with that thousand dollars a month? Can you tell us, like I assume there's some Claude in there. There's gotta be some I imagine there's some Soul in there as well. Maybe there's even some k three or other in there. And and do you get, like, GPU hours? What what's your kind of bundle…
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