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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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August 2023
Infinite interns versus cantankerous colleagues
Two visions of AI applications
Aug 14
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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July 2023
Intracranial tectonics
Or, what I think people are talking about when they equate thinking and writing
Jul 5
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June 2023
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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Nathaniel Hendrix
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May 2023
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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March 2023
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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A perambulator's theory of sports
Geeks loathe sports, at least stereotypically. There’s now the sports geek, but they make a kind of meta-game of sports that focuses more on developing…
Mar 2
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February 2023
Science under the bell jar
In Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, the last human survivors of a global nuclear war awaken from years of sleep to find themselves on board an…
Feb 16
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Are superforecasters useful?
In 2014, I took part in a tournament for the Good Judgment Project. The goal of this project was to figure out whether certain individuals have habits…
Feb 4
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January 2023
ChatGPT could be the key to unbundling science
Most research projects can be divided into discrete fun parts and boring parts. I usually have the most fun in coming up with the question and designing…
Jan 26
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