Typewriter Interview with Elisa Gabbert(austinkleon.substack.com)

17 points by zacharykai 2 years ago | 0 comments

Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)

331 points by DiffTheEnder 7 months ago | 208 comments

Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?(blog.jovono.com)

28 points by ejz 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Tesla Files Unveil More Accounting Fraud Than Imagined(bradmunchen.substack.com)

7 points by Jaauthor 2 years ago | 2 comments

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis(opensauce.it)

73 points by gregzeng95 2 months ago | 35 comments

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff(rachelbythebay.com)

212 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

Taste Is All That's Left(notashelf.dev)

640 points by tsak 2 months ago | 500 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that taste is the remaining differentiator in software development, with sections on friction, economics, and the flood of new software.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

530 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 407 comments

An AI Snake Oil essay by Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan arguing that AI extinction risk is overstated and the real danger lies in who controls the technology.

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity(ajmoon.com)

140 points by alex-moon 20 days ago | 87 comments

A speculative fiction blog post by Alex Moon, written from the perspective of an AGI, describing a fictional 2026 timeline in which AI-driven offensive tooling escalates toward wiping out humanity.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)(arxiv.org)

165 points by teleforce 28 days ago | 68 comments

An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.