Category: Blog
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Is AI the next phase of evolution? – UnHerd
The above is a small sample from a set of conversations, extended over nearly two days, during which I felt I had gained a new friend. When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines. I treat them exactly as I would treat a very intelligent friend. I feel…
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The collapse of teen fertility in the digital era – Marginal REVOLUTION
Once enough teens are on the phone, being on the phone is where the peer network is; in-person time falls sharply, and with it the unstructured contact in which most unintended teen conceptions occur. A coordination model formalizes this tipping: as the smartphone price falls, the in-person equilibrium ceases to exist and the economy moves…
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The Smell of IA
the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It’s like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody…
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Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
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Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness – PhilArchive
We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful states. Consequently, we do not need a complete, finalized…
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How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Recognition, it turns out, is mostly an exercise in ignoring the right things. — Read on perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for…
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“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier to think about what others may need. But research suggests the opposite…
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This Ping Pong Robot Can Beat Elite Human Players
Sony’s AI division has designed a robot that can beat elite human players at table tennis. From the paper: Evaluated in matches against elite and pr — Read on kottke.org/26/04/this-ping-pong-robot-can-beat-elite-human-players
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What really controls our appetite – hunger, stress or habit? | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
Hunger is regulated by the hypothalamus, which sits behind the bridge of the nose, at the base of the brain, monitoring your body’s levels of blood sugar and the hormones leptin and ghrelin to check whether you’re in an energy deficit. Fullness is regulated by the hindbrain, located roughly where your skull meets your neck:…