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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 • 

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Julie Fredrickson

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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 • 

Jon Stokes

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June 2025

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 • 

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May 2025

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 • 

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April 2025

In Defense of Cluely.com

Sometimes cheating is good, actually

Apr 22 • 

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Doing Real Work With LLMs: How to Manage Context

Of roguelikes and grounding problems

Apr 14 • 

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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 • 

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June 2023

To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production

A guest post on addressing non-existential AI risk scenarios

Jun 30, 2023 • 

Jon Stokes

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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 • 

Jon Stokes

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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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May 2023

Catechizing the Bots, Part 1: Foundation Models and Fine-Tuning

A basic introduction to fine-tuning foundation models.

May 28, 2023 • 

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