Garvan Walshe

Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy. My substack: garvanwalshe.org
Joined October 2023
  • To anyone who pretends that what Trump does is serious - show them this clip. To any interviewer who asks you to comment seriously on a Trump initiative or peace plan - show them this clip If you’re holding public office you might have to dissemble but if not it’s time to stop pretending.
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  • There had always been a middle position, thst LLMs are pattern matching machines applied to language and do well at pattern matching tasks. Good to see someone like Mollick realising that earlier claims about them were overdone. Notably this implies 🧵
    • The many eulogies for AI capability growth after the release of GPT-5 seem especially short-sighted right now, and it created voluntary blinders for many people. Models have advanced a lot since summer, but, more importantly, good agentic harnesses seem to lead to capability leaps on their own.
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