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Jack Morris
Personal blog · blog.jxmo.ioaiwriting
Jack Morris writes Token for Token, a personal blog at blog.jxmo.io about ai and writing. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jack Morris's blog for posts on AI progress, including arguments that there are no new ideas in AI and that LLM gains come mainly from scaling data, and on how similar models are.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
language models and the future of AI.
Most-linked posts?
- There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-30
- All AI models might be the same2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-17
- The Case for More Ambition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-09
What Hacker News says?
In the context of our conversation and what OP wrote, there has been no breakthrough since around 2018. What you're seeing is the harvesting of all low-hanging fruit from a tree that was discovered years ago. But fruit is almost gone. All top models perform at almost the same level. All the "agents" and "reasoning models" are just products of training data. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only
on “ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action”Submitted There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets as a story · 490 points
HN discussionThis is kind of related to the jack morris post https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only he discusses how the big leaps in LLMs have mostly come - not so much from new training methods or arch. changes as such - but the ability of new archs. to ingest more data.
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only
on “How large are large language models?”Submitted All AI models might be the same as a story · 311 points
HN discussionI was a little disappointed to discover there was only 1 degree of separation between “Benito Mussolini” and “Bread”. For context: https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model
Comment linking /p/there-is-only-one-model
on “Wikipedia as a Graph”Submitted How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please Stop Talking About AGI (2025) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'AI' just means LLMs now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for More Ambition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Superintelligence, from First Principles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case for more ambition (in AI research) as a story · 2 points
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