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Welcome to the Unmasquerade
On mental health, identity, and knowing what we want
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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…
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Nathaniel Hendrix
Butler, Bros, and Beyond
Constructing a positive vision of masculinity with sci-fi
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Infinite interns versus cantankerous colleagues
Two visions of AI applications
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Nathaniel Hendrix
Intracranial tectonics
Or, what I think people are talking about when they equate thinking and writing
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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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…
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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…
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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Perambulations
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