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Self-help is prompt engineering the unconscious
Prompts are the weirdest part about LLMs. We usually instruct computers in unambiguous programming languages, but prompting injects irrationality into…
Sep 12
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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Butler, Bros, and Beyond
Constructing a positive vision of masculinity with sci-fi
Sep 6
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Infinite interns versus cantankerous colleagues
Two visions of AI applications
Aug 14
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Intracranial tectonics
Or, what I think people are talking about when they equate thinking and writing
Jul 5
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Duolingo as memento mori
About a month ago, I took a weeklong work trip out to California. It was great: a perfect mix of productivity and pleasure. One of my strongest memories…
Jun 27
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The hedgehog and the lobotomist
Megan McArdle has been writing and, in greater depth, speaking lately about Walter Freeman, the popularizer of the icepick lobotomy. She’s not trying to…
May 25
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Sketch of a new English orthography
Everyone knows that English spelling is a mess, but it’s one of those things that most people just accept as locked in, like the similarly irrational…
May 7
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On the sentience of large language models
Conventional wisdom has a terrible track record when it comes to judging sentience. We don’t pay the price for our errors, though, so much as non-human…
Mar 19
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