I Don't Know What to Do About AI, and Neither Do You
This is a rant.
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Bookish Thoughts
Brief notes on good books I’ve read this year.
Link Roundup: September 9, 2024
A link roundup of articles and thoughts on practices of reading, why ChatGPT is still extraordinarily limited at writing, and the "missing questions" in our conversations about the future.
Link Roundup: September 2, 2024
A strange combination of a 1998 interview with Paul Virilio and a blog post about ways to make better decisions.
Link Roundup: August 26, 2024
A link roundup up full of technical skepticism and the benefits of cutting back.
Stay on the Bus: or, Optimization is a Dirty Word
A grammar-based argument about why seeking optimizations might just be a big waste of time.
Link Roundup: August 19, 2024
An article on the (lack of) regulation of solar power.
Link Roundup: August 12, 2024
This week's link roundup includes the unique combination of an article on the most-cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and advice on non-scalable activities for startups.
Link Roundup: August 5, 2024
This week's articles emphasize the importance of archival work and offer an interesting writing-process heuristic.
Link Roundup: July 29, 2024
This week's articles touch on how complexity emerges from simple systems.