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I write about AI, philosophy, and human flourishing.

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personal favorites

  • How to be a Human Starter Pack
  • Astronomical Waste & Conscientious Objection
  • On Patience
  • Beware the Delmore Effect

ai & machine learning

  • GPT-5 Livestream Notes
  • Amusing Labels in the Jiminy Cricket Environments
  • 90/30 ML Reading Group: Retrospective
  • (Not) Buying a Chinese AgiBot
  • Update re 'spontaneous instantiation'

philosophy & ideas

  • Against 'One-Way Streets'
  • No taxicab fallacy for knowledge workers

world & places

  • Sullivan's Travels & 'throwing it all away'

experiments & observations

  • Avocado Experiment
  • The Box Shop
  • peripatetic: 7; ludic: 5; corollary: 8

one-pagers

  • Avocado Experiment
  • The Box Shop

Recent

  • Dec 15 GPT-5 Livestream Notes
  • Dec 8 Astronomical Waste & Conscientious Objection
  • Nov 28 Amusing Labels in the Jiminy Cricket Environments
  • Nov 15 How to be a Human Starter Pack
  • Oct 30 90/30 ML Reading Group: Retrospective

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