Archive - Optimism of the will

Gettier problems

Or, can language models actually know things?

Jul 14, 2023 •

June 2023

OpenAI is a hyperscaler

Compute value-add is the name of the game

Jun 21, 2023 •

April 2023

on 'going cyborg mode'

Apr 26, 2023 •

Big and small knives

Too slow, the wagon of years

Apr 14, 2023 •

February 2023

Generative AI lightning round

human-made hallucinations

Feb 4, 2023 •

August 2022

Competition Like Rivers

This was originally titled ‘a short digression’ in a more personal piece I’ve been writing. It was not short, so here it is. In a world that is becoming…

Aug 10, 2022 •

July 2022

Agency vs brain damage

Happy promo season to those who celebrate

Jul 12, 2022 •

May 2022

Ponzis on the Moon

always has been

May 13, 2022 •

February 2022

Entropy is the only constant

PvP and PvE / growth solves all problems

Feb 1, 2022 •

January 2022

Extremely loud and incredibly fast

a departure from our regularly scheduled programming

Jan 19, 2022 •

April 2021

On being original

A lackluster apology for not writing more often

Apr 20, 2021 •

July 2020

Twitter and Subscriptions

Creator subscriptions, not platform subscriptions, are the future

Jul 13, 2020 •

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