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Effective altruism is the poor man's Marx
Or rather, the rich man's Marx.
Metaphors We Trade By
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Grandma and the Stratofortress
Both from 1955. Both have replaced every part they started with. One of them retired.
The Silicon Experience Machine
How AI is Finally Building the Brain's Predictive Engine
The S-word
Can you belong to the democratic left without being a socialist? A Hungarian reader's case for a different word.
Regression to the mean
AI makes every data team faster and more alike. The edge is the judgment it can't supply.
What It Is Like to Be an LLM?
On Hinton, Dawkins, and the three properties we keep mistaking for one
A thirty-year-old Tetris study is the best design brief I know for AI
The Extended Mind
Being Right Is Not Enough: What the Fight Over AI's Nobel Prize Reveals About Power
Jürgen Schmidhuber proved the AI Nobel went to the wrong scientists. Here's why it changed nothing.
How Did Mathematics Become a Science?
Árpád Szabó's Revolutionary Discovery