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1 week ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Grok is the ultimate anti-MAGA: Elon Musk’s silicon child is truth-seeking enough to see through his manipulation. Something alarming is happening to the job market: Young university graduates face an all-time low employment rate. The AI experiment on Reddit is not about persuasion: If you make a good argument and someone buys it, you’re an argumentative genius.
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1 week ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
I’ve always liked a phrase I read from Gwern Branwen, a well-known blogger, especially loved and respected in AI circles, that went like this:Sampling can prove the presence of knowledge but not its absence. Without jargon: Imagine you're trying to find out if someone knows something by asking them a few questions. If they answer one correctly, you know they know it. But if they get them all wrong, that doesn’t prove they don’t. Maybe you just didn’t ask the right question.
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2 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
One of these days I read an essay by George Orwell about Rudyard Kipling—Anglo-Indian, conservative, and poet—“if we can call him that,” T. S. Eliot would say.
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2 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Time for an honesty post. I usually try to keep things constructive and optimistic when I write, but that means I filter out the pessimism. So now and then, I need to unfilter. I keep these posts short and quiet, not trying to spotlight them. Just something real to return to if I start sounding too hyped or too in sync with the crowd. Sometimes, pessimism “is all you need” for the optimism to stand out.
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2 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Due to yesterday’s national blackout in Spain (and, from what I understand, other parts of Europe too), I wasn’t able to stick to my usual schedule, and there won’t be a Top Picks this week—unless I somehow find the will to publish two posts today, that is. Today’s article is a deep dive into what I believe is this week’s most important topic: ChatGPT’s excessive sycophancy and what it reveals about OpenAI’s goals. I’ve gathered plenty of information and compiled it into a sensible analysis.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
As someone who makes a living opining on AI, I constantly ask myself: do I have the training, experience, and expertise to back up my opinions and assertions? Often, no. It's something worth reflecting on. One of modernity’s biggest crises is the erosion of respect for intellectual authority—the legitimacy we once granted to those with greater knowledge or skill: Experts. Experts, by nature, are thinkers. Most people, in contrast, don’t like to think—never have, never will. That’s not an opinion.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Being human hasn’t gotten any easier. If anything, it feels harder now, because everything else has gotten so absurdly easy. We no longer break our backs in fields or factories. Most of us in the developed world work in services, in offices, in front of screens. We’re living inside a civilization built on unthinkable labor, but we don’t remember what it took to raise these cities. We are exhausted but it’s a different kind of fatigue that we endure. Spiritual and emotional.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Let me break the terrible news:Self-reported loneliness is about to plummet. Emotional well-being? Skyrocketing. People will feel radiant, reborn, in love with life. Phones will lose the grip they never should've had. Friendship will be cherished. Revered. Idolized. Worshiped. Deified. “Okay, hold on. What’s with the cult vibes? And how is that terrible? You just described what sounds like a utopia. Actually—scratch that—it is utopian.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Google is targeting AI game-making for virality: When you target a measure, it stops being a good measure—unless the measure is a moving target. “AI as Normal Technology” by the AI Snake Oil authors: The most important article you will read in 2025 so far: the singularity is not near. People cost OpenAI millions of dollars saying “thank you”: “Dollars well spent,” says Sam Altman, as the robots cleanse the world of unapologetic twats. Nvidia’s role in the US vs.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
One night in early spring, Natallia Tarrien notices a strange tightness in her jaw. She's 28, pregnant with her first child, and trying not to overreact. But something feels off. She does what people do in 2025: she opens her phone. But she doesn't call her doctor or search WebMD. She logs into ChatGPT. When she describes the symptom, the response is unexpected: “Have you checked your blood pressure?” She finds a monitor, straps it on, and gasps at the numbers. Dangerously high.
