Category: Link Library
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The year is 2028
This one got me good:
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Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-199200508 Great post on what is materializing and what is not, and maybe how it’s a particularly challenging time to be 18-25!
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AI disproves an Erdos problem
A claim from OpenAI about this being the first time “that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solved autonomously by AI.” And here’s a Marginal Revolution post with some outside commentary. My understanding is that this is: 1. a big deal and 2. a great setup for the AI…
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r/birdwatching
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Philosophers at AI labs
Maybe about a year ago, I remember telling Michael that I thought it would make sense for the big AI companies to hire philosophers. That philosophers might be one of the last “jobs” left. A thousand other thoughts or predictions, if you can call this remark one, since then have not come to pass.
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It is Sunday
This is possible, it would just take a higher standard for what spending your money and your time means. And by “you” and “your”, I mean me and mine.
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My pendulum swings
After about two months now of using AI very heavily, exploring new coding and agent tools, I am again swinging back towards a very Wendell Berry-esque feeling towards all of it. At the same time as my usage has been going up, this very interesting nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s has come into…
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Why ‘Cost Disease’ Is the Secret Force Behind America’s Toxic Solitude
Interesting post on a fix to the “anti-social century” maybe being possible through social subsidies. Through the lens of Baumol’s cost disease. We’ve gotten more isolated because technological progress in social areas drives us to spend more time alone: Netflix is cheaper than a movie theatre, etc. etc. Would be interesting to see a small…
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Where are the anti-elites when you need them?
Where’s everyone that sang this anthem two years ago when Joe Biden was the elite oppressor they cried out against? Has not Oliver’s fortune telling come true? But now it’s under the oppressor you chose? Where is the independence? The “don’t tread on me” no-matter-what-ness? Wake up! You were right about some things. But being…
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this is why we’re all busy now
Meditations for the Anxious Mind is one of the funnier and prophet-eering social commentaries out there. __ is, seems to me, certainly always stretching the narrative to the margins of what’s going on, but told from the young millenial/old gen z perspective you can’t exactly point at it and say, “That’s not the way it…