Tag: AI
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Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? – Marginal REVOLUTION
When people hold views for reasons of mood management (however sincerely), typically they are unable to respond intelligently to questions challenging their beliefs. Even very smart people will pull b.s. out of the hat and stick with it, moving on rapidly, mentally, to some other topic. Their response is not really thought through, it is…
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Benchma(r)king – James Bridle
What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no…
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Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough
A team transmitted electrical signals corresponding to Braille letters to human brain organoids, which are living neural tissues derived from stem cells. The results revealed that a single organoid, consisting of about 10,000 neurons, could classify the letters with about 61 percent accuracy, while teams of three organoids reached 83 percent accuracy. — Read on…
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DOC • Prompting as Self-Portrait
The chat window is the only place I can be completely uncertain and receive something completely confident back. Being vulnerable yet receiving certainty back are things we chase in our jobs, in our relationships, and in our lives. But living inside this distorted reality, we end up alienating ourselves from our world, from work, and…
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible | ‘ERE I AM – JH!
There’s a further step – you don’t have to ask AI for posters as images that can’t be edited. Claude and Gemini can generate HTML, PNG, PDF, where the text is real text, layers are real layers, you can change fonts, move things around, edit the text – but that’s more than I want to…
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Commodified Intelligence | MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
An automation of general-purpose pattern matching and problem solving is scary since it’s a whole phase change: It automates “everything” which, at worst, leaves us in a world in which raw access to capital/compute is all that matters to determine your leverage. The thing that makes me especially squeamish about this is that there’s a…
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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…