Reflections on Palantir(nabeelqu.substack.com)

430 points by freditup 2 years ago | 473 comments

Nabeel S. Qureshi's Substack essay reflecting on his eight years working at Palantir and how perceptions of the company have changed.

Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian(paulkrugman.substack.com)

38 points by adamors 11 months ago | 26 comments

Private antitrust cases are going through the courts(thebignewsletter.com)

85 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 53 comments

Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo(gabrielweinberg.com)

111 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 77 comments

Maybe ChatGPT has some pre-frontal cortex problems(solresol.substack.com)

7 points by solresol 1 year ago | 2 comments

Zuckerberg,Bezos,Gates.Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father with Money(medium.com)

20 points by mennaali 3 years ago | 4 comments

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.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable 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.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.