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Excellent piece from Brendan McCord: You Are Not a Function: Why the Race to Stay Useful is a Trap. John Stewart Mill: "a human being is more like a tree than a stea...
An excellent piece from Venkat Rao about our Archival Selves. It asks what happens when we pay off our "intention debt". That is, the things we intended to do but never...
Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis. In it she describes how people who know parkour see stairs differently. They're constantly asking thems...
Anthea Roberts has a new excellent piece on the 0-1, 1-10, and 10-100 impacts of LLMs for individuals. Who ends up being the 10x vs the 100x return? It's "who can change how they work."
An excellent piece on the Cosmos blog about Faster Horses. The "replace workers with automated versions" default frame for AI is like pushing for faster horses.
Excellent piece from my friend Ivan about The Transformer and the Hash. Two asymmetrically powerful primitives for the upcoming tech era.
Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus". Why organizations tend to focus on a simple, obvious metric, and then over-focus on ...
An excellent piece from Paul Kedrosky about LLMs shifting the baseline of ability.[jp] "Extraordinary outcomes can (seemingly) disappear when the baseline rises because...
Excellent piece from Dan Shipper: Seeing Like a Language Model The Bitter Lesson is that emergence beats reductionism at scale. Reductionist approaches have been bea...
Excellent piece from my friend Rohit about Seeing Like an LLM Contains this definition from Tyler Cowen: "Context is that which is scarce."
Excellent piece from Luke Drago: Data is the New Social Security Number. The context wars have begun. ChatGPT will do its best to be the single place where our conte...
...ent things, and those kinds of people need very different management styles. An excellent piece by Sebastian Bensusan on High-Variance Management makes a similar point.