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Why I Am Agnostic About AGI & ASI
I don't know if it's possible or what the timelines are, and neither does anyone else. So I don't tend to get worked up about it, unless someone is…
Sep 15, 2025
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Be Not Afraid: Gods, Monsters, and Generative AI
This past June, Julie Fredrickson and I handed out AI whitepills to a conference full of farmers, academics, dissidents, and not a few Uncle Ted fans…
Jul 13, 2025
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The Latent State Window and the Limits of Reasoning in LLMs
A detailed look at recent papers on the limits of reasoning in LLMs.
Jul 5, 2025
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ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works
Mar 1, 2023
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Getting Started With Stable Diffusion: A Guide For Creators
Sep 29, 2022
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Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
Apr 14, 2021
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AI Content Generation, Part 1: Machine Learning Basics
Sep 12, 2022
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Doing Real Work With LLMs: How to Manage Context
Apr 14, 2025
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How to Do Real Work With LLMs, Part 1
Apr 5, 2025
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Did Claude Code Lose Its Mind, Or Did I Lose Mine?
Claude and I drifted apart, and it turns out it was my fault.
Jun 8, 2025
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The Reasoning Revolution In AI: How We Got Here & Why It Matters
From Claude Shannon in the late 1940's to DeepSeek R1 and beyond.
May 5, 2025
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In Defense of Cluely.com
Sometimes cheating is good, actually
Apr 22, 2025
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Doing Real Work With LLMs: How to Manage Context
Of roguelikes and grounding problems
Apr 14, 2025
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How to Do Real Work With LLMs, Part 1
3D flight simulators and Turing tests are cool, but some of us have real work to do
Apr 5, 2025
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To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production
A guest post on addressing non-existential AI risk scenarios
Jun 30, 2023
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How To Regulate AI, If You Must
The rules are definitely coming, so let's make sure they lead to a future we want.
Jun 22, 2023
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Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News
One way or the other, we're on the verge of a media revolution thanks to generative AI. Here are specific, detailed proposals for how LLMs can make the…
Jun 15, 2023
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Catechizing the Bots, Part 2: Reinforcement Learning and Fine-Tuning With RLHF
On overview of unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).
Jun 10, 2023
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