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Importance : 5 | # | mr , tc Tyler Cowen : If strong AI will lower the value of your human capital, your current wage is relatively high compared to your future wage. That is an argument for working harder now, at least if your current and pending pay can rise with greater effort (not true for all jobs). If strong AI can at least potentially boost the value of your human capital, you should be…
Importance : 7 | # | pg , enshittification Paul Graham : Branding isn't merely orthogonal to good design, but opposed to it. Branding by definition has to be distinctive. But good design, like math or science, seeks the right answer, and right answers tend to converge. Branding is centrifugal; design is centripetal. Indeed it's probably a good idea not just to avoid buying brand, but to avoid…
Importance : 5 | # | acx Scott : Are the youth succumbing to a “negativity bias” where they see the past through “rose-colored glasses”? Are the economists looking at some ivory tower High Modernist metric that fails to capture real life? Or is there something more complicated going on? Scott aggregates explainations and gives his thoughts on the mismatch between the world doing better on most…
Importance : 5 | # | mine , ai-coding There's a barrage of coding-AI tools coming out every day and plenty of fancy workflows being discussed. This is my workflow as of August 2025. I primarily work on medium-sized Python codebases (~100k LOC). I also build little tools and work with small repos. Unless explicitly stated, everything here is about features/changes to larger production codebases.…
Importance : 5 | # | acx , ai Scott : God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of incredible. This Terry Tao guy - Iblis: Let me stop you right there. I agree humans can, in controlled situations, provide correct answers to math problems. I deny that they truly understand math. I had a conversation with one of the humans recently, which I’ll bring up here for the viewers … give me…
Importance : 4 | # | ethan-mollick , openai , ai Ethan Mollick : There have been two barriers to accessing powerful AI for most users. The first was confusion. Few people knew to select an AI model. Even fewer knew that picking o3 from a menu in ChatGPT would get them access to an excellent Reasoner AI model, while picking 4o (which seems like a higher number) would give them something far less…
Importance : 4 | # | llm Martin Alderson : I'm only going to look at raw compute costs. This is obviously a complete oversimplification, but given how useful the current models are - even assuming no improvements - I want to stress test the idea that everyone is losing so much money on inference that it is completely unsustainable. Martin makes some rough calculations - starting with deepseek V3…
Importance : 5 | # | acx , ai-psychosis Scott Alexander : AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile anecdotes, but still many unanswered questions. For example, how common is it really? Are the chatbots really driving people crazy, or just catching the attention of people who were crazy…
Importance : 7 | # | google 9to5google : To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.
Importance : 6 | # | henrik-karlsson , writing , thinking Henrik Karlsson : When I sit down to write, the meadow is still engulfed in darkness under a sky where satellites pass by, one after the other. My thoughts are flighty and shapeless, like dreams; they morph as I approach them. But when I open my notebook and write, it is as if I pin my thoughts to the table. I can examine them. ... Since…