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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 131: GPT-5's rocky rollout August 15, 2025.
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Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025) Today's links The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: IBM's fabric design; Nixon Cthulu; Surveillance capitalism is capitalism, with surveillance; Dismaland ad; Outdoor ed vs TB; Mathematicians' fave...
Strange Loop Canon
Walter experiments in rlnvr
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 63: Engineers just got a whole lot more important Welcome to machine learning for software engineers.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 132: The B-word August 22, 2025.
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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;...
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
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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: 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¢...
One Useful Thing
Mass Intelligence From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI
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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: 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....
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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...
Pluralistic: Daily...
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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 133: Nano banana August 29, 2025.
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Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025) Today's links Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter): A disenshittified audiobook about...
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Today's links Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter): A disenshittified audiobook about enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Open source DRM?!; Sad Puppies lose big; Meritocratic delusion. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....
Strange Loop Canon
The future of work is playing a videogame
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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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Weighty Thoughts
Tradeoffs Exist And Denying That Has Corroded Public Discourse
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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...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 65: The AI bubble is popping and why that's a good thing The future of the industry and how to get the most out of your AI coding assistant
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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: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025) Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy...
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Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy disk CD sleeves; Rules for radicals; California's preventable fires; Muppet Haunted Mansion; Wells Fargo steals rescued Nazi loot; Texas abortion release. Upcoming appearances:...
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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,...
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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025) Today's links By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd...
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Today's links By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The right to bear cameras; GOP wants slavery for undocumented migrants; Telepresence Nazi-punching. Upcoming...
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next? Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.
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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) Today's links The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification. Hey look at...
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Today's links The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Amazon drivers hang phones from trees; DVD Jon v Windows DRM; Chevron's dirty tricks. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025) Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
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Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025) Today's links All (antitrust) politics are local: From data-centers to Ticketmaster. Hey look at...
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Today's links All (antitrust) politics are local: From data-centers to Ticketmaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pokerbot back-channels; Little Robot; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 134: The young and the jobless September 5, 2025.
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Pluralistic: Why Wikipedia works (05 Sep 2025) Today's links Why Wikipedia works: Agreeing on source notability, not facts. Hey look at this:...
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Today's links Why Wikipedia works: Agreeing on source notability, not facts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zero History; XKCD cake; Kazaa judgment. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep...
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Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025) Today's links Canny Valley: My little art-book is here! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Canny Valley: My little art-book is here! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ballmer throws a chair; Bruce Sterling on Singapore; RIP David Graeber; Big Car warns of lethal Right to Repair. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
AI as Normal...
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter
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Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025) Today's links Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the...
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Today's links Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Marshmellow longtermism; Physicists are not epidemiologists; CO asphyxiation accounts for half of...
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Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengefühl (08 Sep 2025) Today's links Fingerspitzengefühl: IP vs process knowledge. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
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Today's links Fingerspitzengefühl: IP vs process knowledge. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Buddhist hell theme-park; ORG launches; Yahoo spies for Beijing; Secret plan for border laptop-searches; BBC Creative Archive launches; Penn and Teller BBS;...
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Pluralistic: Trump steals $400b from American workers (09 Sep 2025) Today's links Trump steals $400b from American workers: You get a noncompete, and you get a...
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Today's links Trump steals $400b from American workers: You get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Spying baby-monitors; FBI tests spy-gear at Burning Man; Little Brother optioned by...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
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Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025) Today's links Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump. Hey look at this:...
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Today's links Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Library Tor nodes vs the DHS; Egg-board psyops; Fury Road amputation cosplay; NYPD's dirtiest cop. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....
Artificial Ignorance
Anthropic Might Legally Owe Me Thousands of Dollars On shadow libraries, legal documents, and judicial skepticism.
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Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
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...
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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,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
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...
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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...
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
Sam Altman
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
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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.
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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.
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One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
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
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