Excellent piece on higher-order skills for agents from my friend Ben:
Excellent piece on higher-order skills for agents from my friend Ben: "I think skills — the little markdown-and-prompt bundles that have become the dominant unit of ...
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- excellent piece appears in 15 chunks across 14 episodes, from 2024-12-09 to 2026-06-15.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 (2025-10-13), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with ben mathe, lowest common, and goodhart law, while by chunk count it sits between creative act and grubby truffle; its yearly rank moved from #148 in 2024 to #32 in 2026.
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Excellent piece: Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
Excellent piece: Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit' Bullshitting is hollowness even more than just lying. Bullshitting is not caring about the truth. The modern era...
Anthea Roberts has another excellent piece: The Extended Mind: Why "Did You Do It or Did the AI?" Is the Wrong Question.
Anthea Roberts has another excellent piece: The Extended Mind: Why "Did You Do It or Did the AI?" Is the Wrong Question.
Excellent piece from Brendan McCord: You Are Not a Function: Why the Race to Stay Useful is a Trap.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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
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
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.
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...
Look for the "wow" moment as a signal of potential greatness.
...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.