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How to keep thinking The main thing that’s worked for me is to write more. Specifically, I mean writing in my own words. Writing with an LLM does not work for this at all, even if you’re going to some effort to iterate on the content and outline the things you want to say. Why? [ ]
Is Romance Doomed? Why are so few young people finding love? theatlantic.com Meet Britain s hikikomori A growing number of young Brits are withdrawing from society • Some don t leave the house for months • We met their families dispatch-media.com Reasoning Transparency Editor’s note: This article was published under our former name, Open Philanthropy. Some content [ ]
HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following Language-model agents are increasingly deployed under standing instructions: a system prompt, a policy file, or a skills document is placed in context, and the agent is trusted to let it govern every action that follows. Existing benchmarks rarely test this deployment pattern directly; they measure whether an [ ]
My advice on how to run an agency. Take each with a pinch of salt and adapt to your own agency journey.
Here's a test you can run on any part of an agency: can you name the person who decided it, and roughly when?
Knowledge Is Important: Skills are Essential I explore the fundamental distinction between knowledge and physical action, arguing that while Large Language Models (LLMs) have expert knowledge across many topics, making them both specialists and generalists, actions in the physical world require a different kind of knowledge: specialized skills for real-world execution. Evolutionary forces…
AI 2040: Plan A A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence. ai-2040.com The Lost Joy of Music Piracy What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming. pigeonsandplanes.com The lumber horse Champion the Lumber Horse See the book Going with the Grain for a whole [ ]
A definition of terms for Digital Minds.
An introduction to Digital Minds
European tech sovereignty: a doubtful goal but a good investment Given the continent’s weak starting point, its modest ambitions could have a big impact on local companies ft.com · Saved Links Making Things That Make Things: The Rise of Intelligent Brand Systems R/GA’s Melissa Jackson Parsey introduces Making Things That Make Things: The Rise of [ ]