Excellent piece from Dan Shipper: Seeing Like a Language Model
- Excellent piece from Dan Shipper: Seeing Like a Language Model
- The Bitter Lesson is that emergence beats reductionism at scale.
- Reductionist approaches have been beaten out by emergence.
From other episodes
- Excellent piece from Brendan McCord: You Are Not a Function: Why the Race to Stay Useful is a Trap.2026-04-06
- An excellent piece from Venkat Rao about our Archival Selves.2026-03-09
- Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis.2026-02-02
- Anthea Roberts has a new excellent piece on the 0-1, 1-10, and 10-100 impacts of LLMs for individuals.2026-01-19
- An excellent piece on the Cosmos blog about Faster Horses.2026-01-12
- Excellent piece from my friend Ivan about The Transformer and the Hash.2025-11-17
- Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus".2025-11-04
- Excellent piece from my friend Rohit about Seeing Like an LLM2025-07-14