Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck(writingruxandrabio.com)

99 points by rruxandra_l 2 months ago | 75 comments

Why haven't biologists cured cancer?(writingruxandrabio.com)

64 points by zdw 2 years ago | 67 comments

Is Aschenbrenner's 165 page paper on AI the naivety of a 25 year old?(fikisipi.substack.com)

36 points by pyentropy 2 years ago | 29 comments

Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats(lcamtuf.substack.com)

87 points by zdw 2 years ago | 71 comments

The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure(writingruxandrabio.com)

132 points by item 7 months ago | 157 comments

Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”(privacy.thenexus.today)

112 points by srameshc 3 years ago | 59 comments

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing(ergosphere.blog)

814 points by zaikunzhang 6 months ago | 550 comments

Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)

748 points by weltview 1 year ago | 334 comments

A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.