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One Useful Thing
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can Does process matter? We are about to find out.
3 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
Three Macro Predictions on AI And also a reaction to OpenAI's GPT-5 release
2 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
The US Should Run Faster on AI Instead of Trying to Trip Up China Export Controls and Trump's New AI Action Plan
4 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
2 weeks ago
Strange Loop Canon
Ads are inevitable in AI, and that's okay Convergent evolution in LLMs will get us there
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan July 25, 2025.
4 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 130: GPT-5 August 8, 2025.
2 weeks ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Age of AI Flattery How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
2 weeks ago
Machine Learning for...
Digital hygiene part 2 How to be safe, private, and have a good time online
4 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence August 1, 2025.
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 131: GPT-5's rocky rollout August 15, 2025.
a week ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Millionaire on billionaire violence (10 Aug 2025) Today's links Millionaire on billionaire violence: Let them fight. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links Millionaire on billionaire violence: Let them fight. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Private equity vs investors; French teens who fought Nazis Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 63: Engineers just got a whole lot more important Welcome to machine learning for software engineers.
a week ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025) Today's links Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point...
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Today's links Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....
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Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep...
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Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law (of AI) (11 Aug 2025) Today's links Goodhart's Law (of AI): When a metric becomes a target, AI can hit it every time. Hey...
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Today's links Goodhart's Law (of AI): When a metric becomes a target, AI can hit it every time. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bill Ayers graphic novel; Foxconn in India; Uber loses $4B; Warren Buffet, monopolist. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025) Today's links Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex....
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Today's links Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: David Byrne vs Spotify; India's porn ban; Qanon ARG; Contextual ads; Leveraged buyouts aren't mortgages. Upcoming...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025) Today's links Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They're in for a...
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Today's links Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They're in for a surprise. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paradox of choice (screens); Perpetual Lenovo crapware; Trump's Solicitor General: "bribery is legal"; Marvel's 10¢...
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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) Today's links AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned...
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Today's links AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: A universal remote for killing people; Win10 spies out of the...
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Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) Today's links "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented...
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Today's links "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vampire sf; Trickle-down Sesame Street; Transgenic mouse bribery; WPA StreetView; Walmart's policy origins. Upcoming...
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Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause... Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration...
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Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: No-fly babies; Stephen Harper's Red Dawn; DHS...
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Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) Today's links LLMs are slot-machines: You only remember the jackpots. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links LLMs are slot-machines: You only remember the jackpots. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 64: What AI really means for software engineering jobs The realistic take on 'software engineers being cooked' because AI can write code
3 days ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Zuckermuskian solopsism (18 Aug 2025) Today's links Zuckermuskian solopsism: They just don't think other people are real. Hey look at...
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Today's links Zuckermuskian solopsism: They just don't think other people are real. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist; Disenshittify or Die; Food arrangement copyrights,...
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Pluralistic: AI's pogo-stick grift (02 Aug 2025) Today's links AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial,...
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Today's links AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Galaksija, TSA shock-wand, Reverse-centaur apocalypse. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
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Pluralistic: You can't fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025) Today's links You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.) Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.) Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple and trusted computing; TSA mocks travelers; Self-bricking med-tech. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest...
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025) Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and...
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Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
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Pluralistic: Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." (19 Aug 2025) Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up...
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Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up (magically). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HST in space; It Plays Doom; Deserted Chinese themeparks; Banksy's Dismaland; Dollars are better than warrants;...
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you...
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Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to...
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Pluralistic: Delta's AI-based price-gouging (30 Jul 2025) Today's links Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund. Hey look at...
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Today's links Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DHS RFIDs tourists; Solar heroin; International development and the copyfight Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
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Pluralistic: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup (29 Jul 2025) Today's links Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot. Hey look...
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Today's links Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hearware, 10,000 superballs; Bitcoin is not socialist; Stupid and dangerous video game cheating lawsuit. Upcoming appearances:...
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Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025) Today's links Become unoptimizable: Twiddle or be twiddled. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Become unoptimizable: Twiddle or be twiddled. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Penguins v Microsoft in the EU; Chastity belts are a joke; Austerity breeds Nazis, Yale says, "Prepare for death." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 132: The B-word August 22, 2025.
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Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" (21 Aug 2025) Today's links Melissa Mendes's "The Weight": Graphic novel as emotional roller-coaster. Hey look at...
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Today's links Melissa Mendes's "The Weight": Graphic novel as emotional roller-coaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Windows 10 killswitch; Ashley Madison copyfraud; Ulysses pacts; "Blackheart Man." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
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Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025) Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DIY TSA universal keys; Steve Jackson Games raid +20. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em,...
Machine Learning for...
The Strange Reality of AI and SWE Hiring in 2025 Understanding the job market beyond 'the market is bad' is
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Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025) Today's links Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for...
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Today's links Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for your boss, the worse they are for you. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dr Bruce Sterling; Buddy Holly's overnight bag; Zombie postcapitalism. Upcoming...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Sam Altman
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
a year ago
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There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
a year ago