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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
a week 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
3 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: 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...
Pluralistic: Daily...
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: 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:...
Pluralistic: Daily...
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: 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.
18 hours ago
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...
Machine Learning for...
The Strange Reality of AI and SWE Hiring in 2025 Understanding the job market beyond 'the market is bad' is
19 hours ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
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,...
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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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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a year ago
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
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
over a year ago