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AI in 2025: gestalt
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Paper AI Tigers
Making sense of current Chinese AI (Nov 2025)
Ways we can fail to answer
Fundamental barriers to knowledge (Nov 2025)
Glasgow
My second alma mater (Aug 2025)
Rats and trads
Two types of intellectual fundamentalism (Jul 2025)
How I don't use LLMs
couples counselling for me and my machine (Apr 2025)
Ten Hard Problems in and around AI
New paper on what it will take to make AI go well. (Feb 2024)
LLM alignment via activations
New paper on engineering activations in large language models (Aug 2023)
'Disco Elysium' (2019): Part 1
Messy thoughts on the best work of political fiction of recent decades (Jan 2023)
Ramsey
The philosopher's philosopher, the economist's economist, ... (Apr 2022)
Comparing experts and generalists
Literature review - who gives more accurate forecasts? (Mar 2022)
The World Sound
My favourite music from various places. (Sep 2020)
Robots, Games, Life, Markets
Understanding game theory, reinforcement learning,
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other (Apr 2020)
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other (Apr 2020)
Reversals in psychology
A list of exaggerated psychological phenomena (Jan 2020)
Hardening the browser
Passable browser security for little money or effort (Sep 2018)
Disambiguating the first computer
Tiny app for defining "computer". (Aug 2017)
Why I'm not a philosopher
Philosophy's functions & benefits, and why they aren't real(?) (Aug 2017)
The Worst Game Ever
A true story about model error, noisy decisions, and the birth of tragedy. (Oct 2016)
Why is quality rare?
Why in general is it harder to do things well than badly? (Mar 2015)
Comparing up and down
Choosing your reference class for happiness or growth. (Jul 2014)
'Have One on Me' by Joanna Newsom
Reading the best album of the last 20 years. (Oct 2010)
Punk as ideology
Serious or ironic? Political or aesthetic? Yay or boo? (Sep 2010)
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