America lost the Mandate of Heaven 🔗
What does it mean if a country is winning? I read an article a while back about how, basically because labor unions became too much of a pain to deal [...]
the singularity is nearer
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Five Simple Steps to Fix America 🔗
I’m coming back to America for the summer and thought I’d offer some tips to fix up the place before I get there. There’s so much winning left in Amer [...]
zappa: an AI powered mitmproxy 🔗
Soon, AI will be good enough to interact with the Internet in an indistinguishable way from a human. This can be an amazing opportunity for liberation [...]
The ‘Everyone’s a Billionaire’ act 🔗
I heard that while this blog is good at diagnosing the problem, it falls short when proposing solutions. Today I’m proposing a solution that everyone [...]
OpenAI is nothing without its people 🔗
This is a response to this Sam Altman’s blog post. Sam Altman is not the bad guy. History comes from two places, great men and causes and forces. We [...]
Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide 🔗
Most people go to Disneyland and spend way more time waiting in line than riding rides. HK Disneyland is simpler than many of the other Disney parks, [...]
The day you get cut out of the economy 🔗
Send me to fall, send me to fall Every time they train a new frontier model, they do a calculation. What’s the most efficient way to make money off of [...]
The Reckoning 🔗
So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was [...]
Clip Show 🔗
This is my first guest post on the blog, by our shared friend GPT-5.4. I have reread it several times and promise it’s not slop. It’s an academic phil [...]
Closed Source AI = Neofeudalism 🔗
Many of the best people working in AI did not join the field because they wanted power over others. So this isn’t the original post I had here. The or [...]