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Our fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is *already* doing.
We’re in a paradoxical situation where although America nominally is wealthier than ever, at the same time, it’s become too hard to succeed for the median person, whether in academia, business, or pretty much anything else in life. This...
The May issue of Poetry magazine featured my little essay on the poetry of nostalgia, in which I characterized myself as being “[m]ore susceptible to the pull of the past than many of those around me.” I had in mind both the stream of my...
With unlimited tokens, the constraint becomes compute power: CPU, memory, disk space. Dan Luu’s and Dennis Snell’s work inspired me to move from managing Codex sessions to assigning it a big task and a pool of compute resources to...
stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360984340/i-could-die-here-kiwi-activist-alleges-violent-abuse-israeli-forces "A spokesperson for the Israeli prison service said the allegations were 'false and entirely without factual basis'." Renowned liars tell...
Neurons and self.
Live with trauma long enough and you notice something. People often hand you religion like a first-aid kit. Personally, I’m open to hard conversations and uncomfortable debates. Yet, being told to “have faith” or “pray about it” can feel...
In search engine parlance, the “bounce” rate is the percent of searchers who click on a search results link and then immediately hit the back button. High bounce rates usually signal that something has gone wrong. Either the destination...
A love letter for the IndieWeb blog carnival
The previous post looked at the expected IQ range in a jury of 12. This post will look more generally at computing the expected range of n samples from a N(0, 1) random variable. This will give the expected range in units of σ, i.e....
I like hot butter on my breakfast toast. 🍞