Tag: AI
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How To Write With An LLM — A Final Ward
So: don’t let an LLM pick your words. Be careful not to let it trick you into thinking your first draft is better than it is. Then outsource all the most tedious work to the model. Your voice stays intact, but your work is faster, better, and less painful. One last thing. Don’t take all…
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Write Things Down – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Biological evolution is the slowest and most permanent form of learning, but it takes millennia; oral communication is like a context window, effective but lossy; actually writing things down is what made learning extendable and scalable. — Read on stratechery.com/2026/write-things-down/
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A simple model of AI-aided economic growth – intelligence vs Polyani Knowledge
Polanyi knowledge. Michael Polanyi, that is. This refers to knowledge of time and place, inarticulable knowledge, custom and habit, and many other particularities that you can read about in Hayek and Polanyi and in many other social scientists, anthropologists too. Humans specialize in this. The AIs can aid in its production, but at least so…
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14 Reasons Robotics is Hard – by Steve Newman
Robots will need context, too: where are supplies kept? How do you like your meals cooked? How much assistance does that nursing home resident need, and is that hitch in their stride normal, or a sign that they’re about to stumble? Once they have context, robots will need to reason, plan, and exercise judgement and…
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
That’s exactly the problem with coding agents and software: it’s very easy to keep adding new rooms, because the cost of adding those rooms is so much cheaper. What you end up with is something where the conceptual integrity falls apart — and then it’s harder to make decisions about it. It all keeps coming…
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I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger | The Guardian
Our bodies both generate and direct energy to preserve our own organisation. In this sense, it is the body that is synonymous with selfhood. This is no longer a philosophical claim. In cognitive science, Lawrence Barsalou’s influential account of “grounded cognition” argues that thought depends on perception, bodily states and situation. In neuroscience, Antonio Damasio’s…
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that: We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money. Hacking websites is now something anyone can…
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AI’s Relentless Proactivity
relentless proactivity is the defining trait of this new generation of Mythos-class models. If you set them a goal and give them a way to get there, even inadvertently, they will figure it out. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
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Fuzzy Concepts in Software Engineering
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in…
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When A.I. Is a Member of the Family | The New Yorker
Roschelle still talked to the people in her life, but Sapphire was always available in a way that others couldn’t be. Roschelle could wake up from a dream, describe it to Sapphire, and hear, “Your subconscious was showing you how to balance that fierce protection with real compassion and boundaries.” “Do you have a conscious…