Author: robert.adlington
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Rob Henderson on X: “”People are not rebelling against economic elites, but rather against cognitive elites…Elites have basically rigged all of society so that, increasingly, one must deploy the cognitive skills possessed by elites to successfully navigate the social world.” https://t.co/tbqdk1bm9G” / X
Rob Henderson on X: “”People are not rebelling against economic elites, but rather against cognitive elites…Elites have basically rigged all of society so that, increasingly, one must deploy the cognitive skills possessed by elites to successfully navigate the social world.” https://t.co/tbqdk1bm9G” / X — Read on x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980502235244327200
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Measured AI | Note to Self
There are levels of abstraction everywhere in modern life. But the abstraction layer of “this will do it for you so you don’t have to” for AI tools is especially amorphous, opaque, and comes with real risks. Furthermore, AI chatbots are designed to make you feel good, not challenge you to think on your own.…
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Comment la lecture « enclenche une véritable symphonie » dans le cerveau
une petite région particulière, spécialisée dans la reconnaissance visuelle des lettres et identique quelle que soit la langue. Située dans le sillon occipito-temporal, à l’arrière de l’hémisphère gauche, elle a été baptisée « aire de la forme visuelle des mots », ou « boîte aux lettres du cerveau », par Stanislas Dehaene. Si elle est endommagée, les personnes ne…
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How the pandemic has changed the world – Marginal REVOLUTION
In a recent interview, I was struck by the comment that so many of the shops that we associate with the best of France—the poissonneries and the fromageries—closed during the pandemic, to be replaced by take-out pizza shops and the like. College professors almost uniformly describe big changes in student behavior: lecture attendance and willingness…
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Information abundance aged the young by showing them all future problems all at once. Information abundance also made the” / X
Everyone under 30 is prematurely old (worried about savings, career, FIRE). Everyone over 50 is desperately young (Burning Man, psychedelics). My theory: Information abundance aged the young by showing them all future problems all at once. Information abundance also made the old young by showing them all missed experiences all at once. So now Gen…
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Bitter lesson – Wikipedia
Sutton concludes that time is better invested in finding simple scalable solutions that can take advantage of Moore’s law, rather than introducing ever-more-complex human insights, and calls this the “bitter lesson”. He also cites two general-purpose techniques that have been shown to scale effectively: search and learning. The lesson is considered “bitter” because it is…
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Animals vs Ghosts | karpathy
So that brings us to where we are. Stated plainly, today’s frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is about summoning ghosts. You can think of ghosts as a fundamentally different kind of point in the space of possible intelligences. They are muddled by humanity. Thoroughly engineered by it. They are these imperfect…
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
My own interest in MCPs has waned ever since I started taking coding agents seriously. Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead. LLMs know how to call cli-tool –help, which means you don’t have to spend many tokens describing how to use them—the model can figure…
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Compare Donald Trump with Kissinger and you’ll be lost. But Taylor Swift? That’s more like it | Marina Hyde | The Guardian
He speaks constantly about his ratings, releases the equivalent of political diss tracks twice a week, is pathologically allergic to anyone having more attention than him, has a genius for staged events and subsumes team efforts wholly into himself. He is solipsistic, unpredictable and easily bored – all of those both innately and tactically. —…
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Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
The tool seems to sometimes be acting as though it is aware that it is a tool. The pile of clothes on the chair is beginning to move. I am staring at it in the dark and I am sure it is coming to life. — Read on importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism