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Good tools give users agency; the best tools take it away and prevent mistakes. Continue reading...

Fundraising, recruiting, sales, partnerships—it all can be seen as information retrieval. Continue reading...

The Good Place is a sitcom about morality, ethics, and who gets into Heaven. Even in the afterlife, characters are trapped in capitalist logic Continue reading...

Earlier this year, Hannah and I went to Mexico City for a quick trip. Fito Paez, one of my favorite musicians, was playing the Auditorio Nacional, and the tickets were relatively cheap. The concert might have been one of the best shows I’ve ever been to, and it was a good excuse for a trip. We got to see old friends, eat great food, and generally had a great time. More...

Since they are trained on human writing, LLMs are fundamentally downstream of existing human ideas. This leads people to believe that all these models can do is remix and interpolate, rehashing what we already know. I don’t buy that. Continue reading...