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Substack
Moved the blog to Substack.
2024 Spring Link Review
Science is more than a procedure that magically makes an outcome “truth,” the internal conflict of professional women, and the distinction between bourgeoise and professional classes.
2023-24 Winter Link Review
Under the current of AI are dynamics and forces that can take it in many directions. This is a focus on the bad ones.
2023 Autumn Link Review
Editing hundreds or thousands of genes across billions of cells may be possible, research on the behavioral impact of asymmetry in a demography’s sexes, and a historical and empirical investigation into the history of Jewish-Muslim relations.
2023 Summer Link Review
2023 Spring Link Review
Notes on Chris Miller’s book talk for “Chip War”, Andrew Jackson in “American Lion”, and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, outlines the prerequisites for success.
Trading Suits for Sofas
“What was this new value each wave of innovations allowed? Well, in the beginning, it was about saving time. A family’s time was consumed with keeping the lights on. It’s not particularly complex to water fields nor to clean the dishes, but they are pretty darn time consuming and very important. Those innovations gave time back to people who could profit from it, and that time surplus could be used to generate time savings for other people strapped for it.”
Taking ChatGPT to School
Tinkering with ChatGPT responses and competence as a contrarian. Touch on the epistemology of intelligence, consequences of domain-trained models for entry-level professional work.
LLM gets taken to the cleaners by SEO wizard in an enormous victory for biotic entities everywhere. A humiliating spectacle of Random Person’s intellectual prowess over chat bot. OpenAI employees will be picking up the pieces of their belittled toy for years to come.
2022-23 Winter Link Review
Notes from a presentation on global mining challenges for the energy transition and an interview on a new theory of inflation.
2022 Autumn Link Review
Compilation of interesting videos, articles, and thought pieces from Autumn 2022.
2022 Summer Link Review
Compilation of interesting videos, articles, and thought pieces from August 2022.
Brain Hunting
The emergence of standardized tests took place over one-hundred years and has radically altered how businesses, government agencies, and schools select and operate. The history of intelligence testing is a story inspired by radical changes in the culture, sciences, and values of the Western world and continues to influence modern institutions.