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# #opinions

- <https://www.compactmag.com/article/big-techs-war-on-human-achievement/> — Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["technology","politics"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/> — The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["ai","politics"]
    - later: true

- <https://nabeelqu.co/reflections-on-palantir> — Reflections on Palantir

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["palantir","defense"]
    - later: true

- <https://andrewwu.substack.com/p/i-dont-care-anymore-if-your-writing> — I don’t care (anymore) if your writing got a Pangram false positive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["ai writing","criticism"]
    - later: true

- <https://evanjconrad.com/posts/end-of-software> — The end of software

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["generative interfaces","software"]
    - later: true

- <https://fas.org/publication/tracking-hyperscale/> — Tracking Hyperscale AI Data Center Growth with Satellite Imagery

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["ai infrastructure","data centers"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.reddit.com/r/desloppification/> — r/desloppification

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["ai","community"]
    - later: true

- <https://substack.com/home/post/p-147138670?selection=51f82d25-d633-48b3-a053-f939291afdd2> — REVIEW: Sick Societies, by Robert B. Edgerton

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["review","society"]
    - later: true

- <https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-future-of-meta-superintelligence> — The Future of Meta Superintelligence: A 1 Year Progress Update

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["meta","superintelligence"]
    - later: true

- <https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/> — The Future Worth Building Is Human

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["ai","humanity"]
    - later: true

- <https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12/is-the-internet-making-culture-worse> — Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["internet","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/> — The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["ai","work"]
    - later: true

- <https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12/can-you-just-do-things> — Can You Just Do Things?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["agency","institutions"]
    - later: true

- <https://ampblog.substack.com/p/what-makes-slop-slop> — What makes slop, slop?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["ai","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.axios.com/2026/07/26/union-contracts-ai-workplace-disruption> — Union contracts and AI workplace disruption

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["ai","labor"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ai-future-is-for-everyone-a0c24e20> — The AI Future Is for Everyone

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/28/2026
    - tags: \["ai","open weights"]
    - later: true

- <https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf> — Open Weights and American AI Leadership

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/28/2026
    - tags: \["open weights","ai policy"]
    - later: true

- [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-06/donald-trump-changed-presidential-power-will-democrats-keep-it](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-06/donald-trump-changed-presidential-power-will-democrats-keep-it) — Trump has expanded presidential power. Will the next Democrat keep it?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/08/2026
    - tags: \["trump","presidential power"]
    - later: true

- <https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-century-of-the-maxxer> — The century of the maxxer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/06/2026
    - tags: \["culture","maxxing"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/WillManidis/status/2072360051730231684> — Will Manidis on companies as theories

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["companies","palantir"]
    - later: true

- <https://rivalvoices.substack.com/p/god-help-me-am-i-about-to-change> — God help me am I about to change my view on AI-assisted writing?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["ai","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/zetalyrae/status/2071350566887059780> — Fernando on community consultation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["governance","consultation"]
    - later: true

- <https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html> — The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["efficiency","tooling"]

- <https://jessyin.world/writing/there-is-a-massive-gap-between-what-we-want-to-create-and-what-we-can-describe> — There is a Massive Gap Between What We Want to Create and What We Can Describe

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["design","vibe coding"]

  - I think she’s referring to the jagged frontier that people lack when working with these tools.

- <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-04-23/in-conversation-dave-murphy-and-tom-murphy-can-modernity-survive-planetary-limits/> — In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – can modernity survive planetary limits?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["extraterrestrial","life"]

- <https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership> — 2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["state","government"]

  - I don’t really like these fear-mongering blogpost, but cool to read anyways.

- <https://antithesis.com/blog/is_something_bugging_you/> — Is something bugging you?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["life","company","persistence","testing"]

- <https://samstrickberger.com/on-motivation/> — On Motivation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["life","debate"]
    - later: true

- <https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will> — If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["ai","writing"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://abio.substack.com/p/america-could-have-4-lunch-bowls> — America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan, but our zoning laws make them illegal

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["zoning","food"]
    - later: true

- <https://chinaunread.substack.com/p/i-moved-back-to-a-second-tier-city> — I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["china","cities"]
    - later: true

- <https://afeteworsethandeath.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-use-ai> — You don’t have to use AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["ai","humanities"]
    - later: true

- <https://beyondladder.substack.com/p/whats-left-for-us> — What’s Left for Us?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["ai","human advantage"]
    - later: true

- <https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy> — The third wave of American philanthropy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["philanthropy","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://qchu.substack.com/p/the-singularity-does-not-wear-prada> — The singularity does not wear Prada

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["singularity","fashion"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/high-agency-silicon-valley.html> — All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be ‘High Agency’

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["agency","silicon valley"]
    - later: true

- <https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/agency-is-for-sociopaths> — Agency is for sociopaths

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["agency","ethics"]
    - later: true

- <https://rorytruex.substack.com/p/will-ai-break-the-university> — Will AI Break the University?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["ai","education"]
    - later: true

- <https://jacobin.com/2019/09/meritocracy-trap-inequality-human-capital-markovits> — The Hell of Meritocracy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["work","being"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.kobro.co/joining-anthropic/> — Joining Anthropic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["company","transition","work"]

- <https://chiasm.substack.com/p/attention-economy> — ATTENTION ECONOMY

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["attention","stimulants"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/371996/volunteering-charity-giving-philanthropy-generosity> — Are Americans generous?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["generosity","philanthropy"]
    - later: true

- <https://thecounterfactual.substack.com/p/maim-is-probably-not-a-good-deal> — MAIM is Probably Not a Good Deal for America

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["policy","incentives"]
    - later: true

- <https://gracebyron.substack.com/p/main-character-syndrome-as-politics> — Main Character Syndrome as Politics

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["politics","liberalism"]
    - later: true

- <https://post.substack.com/p/direct-relationships-are-the-way> — Direct relationships are the way out of this TikTok mess

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["attention","social media"]
    - later: true

- <https://digitalspirits.substack.com/p/never-let-a-good-sputnik-moment-go> — Never let a Good Sputnik Moment go to Waste

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["cybersecurity","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://malavika.substack.com/p/its-time-to-start-bullying-young> — it’s time to start bullying young Palantir employees

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["defense","tech"]
    - later: true

- <https://substack.com/@arjunramani/p-154910809> — builders vs. prigs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["growth","ea"]
    - later: true

- <https://writing.nikunjk.com/p/the-case-against-doomerism> — The Case Against Doomerism

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["ai","optimism"]
    - later: true

- <https://kasurian.com/p/democracy-will-not-survive-consumption> — Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["politics","productivity"]
    - later: true

- <https://andrewwu.substack.com/p/against-vibes> — Against vibes

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["rigor","aesthetics"]
    - later: true

- <https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-truth> — Against truth

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["rationality","epistemology"]
    - later: true

- <https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is-not> — The law that can be named is not the true law

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["law","politics"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/persona-parasitology![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KWdtL8iyCCiYud9mw/persona-parasitology) — Persona Parasitology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["models","behaviour"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/my-understanding-of-anthropic-strategy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MNpBCtmZmqD7yk4q8/my-understanding-of-anthropic-strategy) — My understanding of Anthropic strategy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["strategy","alignment"]
    - later: true

- <https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf> — Surveillance Is Not Safety

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["privacy","selfhood"]

- <https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-national-ai-strategy-incredible-step-forward/> — Canada AI Strategy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/05/2026
    - tags: \["politics"]

- <https://slavoj.substack.com/p/why-artificial-intelligence-is-not> — Why Artificial Intelligence is not a Subject

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
    - tags: \["agi"]

- <https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mme3ex/why_do_people_assume_we_liked_4o_because_of_the/> — Why do people assume we liked 4o because of the over the top praise and glazing?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
    - tags: \["models","behaviour"]

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/opinion/artificial-intelligence-enlightenment.html> — A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology","behavioural"]

- <https://www.humansfirst.com/executive-order-letter> — Coalition Letter Supporting Proposed Executive Order for Mandatory Pre-Deployment Testing for Frontier AI Systems

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/18/2026
    - tags: \["infrastructure"]

- <https://firethering.com/openmythos-open-source-claude-mythos-reconstruction> — OpenMythos

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["agi"]

- <https://archive.is/hOYMn> — Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/17/2026
    - tags: \["investigation","being"]

- <https://giansegato.com/essays/probabilistic-era> — Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/23/2026
    - tags: \["products"]

- <https://thezvi.substack.com/p/chatgpt-self-portrait> — ChatGPT Self-Portrait

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2026
    - socials: {"experiment":"https\://chatgpt.com/c/696fb319-cffc-8332-be59-194d20e96829"}
    - tags: \["dystopian","being"]

- <https://matt.might.net/articles/ways-to-fail-a-phd/> — 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2026
    - tags: \["research","work"]

- <https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/> — Cursor’s latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","news"]

- <https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/15/anthropic-huge-mistake.html> — Anthropic is making a huge mistakes

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["osint","tooling"]

- [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/anthropic-is-at-war-with-itself/684892/](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/anthropic-is-at-war-with-itself/684892/) — Anthropic is at war with itself

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
    - tags: \["progress","transhumanism"]

- <https://antirez.com/news/158> — Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["arguments","agents"]

  - A call for a more democratic future of agentic tooling, which I think is already happen with all of these open source tools and model ecosystems.

  - cf. [snarktank/ralph](https://github.com/snarktank/ralph)

- <https://newsletter.forethought.org/p/viatopia> — What sort of post-superintelligence society should we aim for?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - socials: {"website":"https\://www\.forethought.org/research/viatopia"}
    - tags: \["meliorism","intelligence"]
    - pinned: true

  - Argument for [hyperabundance](/posts/hyperabundance), I believe we would reach to a hyperabundance state, if not sooner than reaching towards viatopia

- <https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2025/11/llm-generated-text-is-not-testimony.html> — LLM-generated text is not testimony

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["generative","ai"]
    - importance: 5

  - The main argument is that it is not epistemic matter but also an issue of higher-order intent

  - i.e LLM-generated text lacked the lived-experience depth. Though I do think this comes from a place of laziness of the people who just use LLM-generated text as is.

- <https://archive.is/57dY5> — The Binge Purge TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show. \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["media","pop culture"]

- <https://www.seangoedecke.com/being-right-a-lot/> — Good engineers are right, a lot

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/30/2025
    - tags: \["efficiency"]

  - > They’re right about concrete factual statements about how software systems work (e.g. endpoint X has rate limit Y). They’re right about concrete plans (e.g. we can’t add this check here, but it’ll work there). They’re right about a million small decisions that they make when they write code, which shows up in their code generally working and causing fewer bugs.

    - related to [engineerintg taste](/thoughts/taste#engineering)
    - A lot has to with conviction and confidence

  - > you can just ask yourself whether you feel default relaxed or suspicious when they make claims

- <https://archive.is/ZdImB> — The Age of Enshittification \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/25/2025
    - tags: \["progress"]

- <https://archive.is/UDLrz> — “I’ve been allergic to AI for a long time”: an interview with Peter Thiel \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/25/2025
    - tags: \["utility","capitalism"]

- <https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/> — Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2003097405026193809> — Demis’ on building an augmented brains

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["mind body dualism","silicon","ai"]

- [lesswrong/ai-safety-undervalues-founders![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yw9B5jQazBKGLjize/ai-safety-undervalues-founders) — AI safety undervalues founders, Ryan Kidd

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/18/2025
    - tags: \["building","company","safety","alignment"]

- <https://collabfund.com/blog/how-this-all-happened/> — How This All Happened

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["history","capitalism"]
    - later: true

- <https://daystareld.com/blog/orson-scott-card/> — Orson Scott Card

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["homosexuality"]

- <https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/titles> — Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["work"]

  - > New titles increase the status of certain jobs that are core to company success.

  - > Fewer labels reduces siloing, allowing talented employees to contribute across functions and naturally shift into new areas of work.

- [lesswrong/sam-marks-s-shortform![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/auKWgpdiBwreB62Kh/sam-marks-s-shortform?commentId=Gnx45bn64qdGgXrKS) — Sam Mark, Thoughts on self-report training for honesty

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["research","rl"]

- <https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/> — Why AGI will not happen

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["agi","scaling"]

- <https://danfu.org/notes/agi/> — Yes, AGI can happen, from a computational perspective

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["agi","scaling"]

- [lesswrong/do-you-even-have-a-system-prompt-psa![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HjHqxzn3rnH7T45hp/do-you-even-have-a-system-prompt-psa) — Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA/repo)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["llm"]

- <https://archive.ph/nd6eo> — “Buy Nothing” Was Their Everything. \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/10/2025
    - tags: \["fruit"]

- <https://archive.is/h83uG> — Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/10/2025
    - tags: \["ai"]

  - Behind the Shoggoth

  - The modern world has been built by and within monsters, which crush individuals without remorse or hesitation, settling their bulk heavily on some groups, and feather-light on others. We eke out freedom by setting one against another, deploying bureaucracy to limit market excesses, democracy to hold bureaucrats accountable, and markets and bureaucracies to limit democracy’s monstrous tendencies. How will the newest shoggoth change the balance, and which politics might best direct it to the good? We need to start finding out. ■

- <https://epilepsywarning.com/megachurch-time> — MEGACHURCH TIME!

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/07/2025
    - tags: \["signaling"]

  - The internet, which increasingly creates reality, speaks now like a 4 note song. Staccato. Michael Burry. Michael Burry. Big Short. Michael Burry. Trump is viral again today. Trump is viral again today. It’s not x it’s y. Trump is viral again today.

  - Incentive structures create an equilibrium where exactly one signal at a time is surfaced by any feed of content:

    - A poster or corporation, optimizing for engagement, should use the most universal symbol to boost relatability and exposure.
    - A content sorting algorithm should surface things which are being posted about a lot, which the users are sharing with friends, and pick the most viral piece of content
    - A user should share the biggest meme of the day with friends, to relate to them.

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/opinion/pianist-music-performance-perfection.html> — The Quest for Perfection Is Stunting Our Society

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/30/2025
    - tags: \["metalearning"]

- <https://www.mechanize.work/blog/the-upcoming-gpt-3-moment-for-rl/> — The GPT-3 moment for RL

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["rl","ml","scaling"]

- <https://archive.ph/pZrGT> — How close is humanity to the edge?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["existentialism"]

- [lesswrong/hire-or-become-a-thinking-assistant![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ajT6q5aMokagfthvG/hire-or-become-a-thinking-assistant) — Hire (or Become) a Thinking Assistant

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["research","metacognition"]

- <https://etsd.tech/posts/rtfc> — Read the f\*\*\* code

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/07/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- <https://archive.ph/YNZI0> — Elon wants what he can’t have: Wikipedia \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2025
    - tags: \["columnist"]

- <https://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html> — Mean [people](/are.na#people) fail

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/03/2025
    - tags: \["behaviour"]

- <https://ordinaryinstants.substack.com/p/graduate-school-is-just-a-metaphor> — Graduate school is just a metaphor

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2025
    - tags: \["research"]

- <https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/the-post-naive-internet-era/> — Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet era

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["internet"]

- <https://borretti.me/article/how-to-read-more> — How To Read More

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["reading","advice"]

- <https://substack.com/@ellieanderphd/note/c-176537495?r=1z8i4s> — How to read philosophy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["philosophy"]

- <https://archive.ph/eswxi> — The Divider \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

- <https://joincolossus.com/article/inside-cursor/> — Inside Cursor

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/08/2025
    - tags: \["work culture"]

- <https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for> — Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/04/2025
    - tags: \["environment","llm"]
    - highlighted: true

  - his replies: <https://andymasley.substack.com/p/replies-to-criticisms-of-my-chatgpt>

  - see also: <https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use>

- <https://johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-dating-app-screenshot> — Thoughts on the [Dating](/dating) App Screenshot

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["surveillance"]

  - recreational surveillance

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/opinion/artificial-intelligence-enlightenment.html> — A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["ai","epistemology"]

- <https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment> — A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["ai","llm"]

- <https://www.visakanv.com/blog/flirting/> — flirting is about signalling interest with plausible deniability

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["dating"]

- [The AI Anarchies Book](/library/The-AI-Anarchies-Book)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["book","technology"]

- <https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/09/13/get-out-of-technology.html> — Get the fuck out of technology \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/16/2025
    - tags: \["technology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://ai-2027.com/> — AI 2027 \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["agi","speculation"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - <https://x.com/eli_lifland/status/1908671788630106366>

  - <https://thezvi.substack.com/p/analyzing-a-critique-of-the-ai-2027>

  - [lesswrong/a-deep-critique-of-ai-2027-s-bad-timeline-models![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PAYfmG2aRbdb74mEp/a-deep-critique-of-ai-2027-s-bad-timeline-models)

  - [lesswrong/ai-2027-responses![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gyT8sYdXch5RWdpjx/ai-2027-responses)

  - <https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html>

- <https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/what-cost-varietyhtml> — What Cost Variety?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["economic"]

- <https://ourworldindata.org/global-inequality-opportunity-to-give> — Global inequality is huge — but so is the opportunity for people in high-income countries to support poor people

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["economic"]

  - Less than 2% of the income of the top 10% global earners equals the entire annual income of the poorest 10%

- <https://stevenadler.substack.com/p/the-45-trillion-dollar-elephant-in> — The 4.5 trillion dollar elephant in the room

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["ai"]

- <https://blog.aayushg.com/conviction/> — Conviction is the scarcest resource \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["life","ideology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://danluu.com/ballmer/> — Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["leaders"]

- <https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/questions-about-ai?open=false> — Questions about AI, by Dwarkesh

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["ai","longtermism"]

- <https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/most-ai-value-will-come-from-broad-automation-not-from-r-d> — Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R\&D

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["interpretability"]

- <https://www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of-american-adults-cant-read-i-teach-them> — A fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

- <https://paulgraham.com/95.html> — PG’s 95% of great programmers in

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <https://paulgraham.com/woke.html> — Origin of Wokeness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["society"]

- <https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-centers-crash-the-economy> — Will data centers crash the economy?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/04/2025
    - tags: \["economics"]

- <https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1954363395068616745> — Gaza’s privatization

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/10/2025
    - tags: \["politics"]

- <https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/in-pursuit-marriage-motherhood-and-womens-well-being> — In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, and Women’s Well-Being \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["love","life"]
    - highlighted: true

- [lesswrong/some-rules-for-life-v-0-0![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gfbX3h4RueuDzWs7m/some-rules-for-life-v-0-0) — Rules for life \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/10/2025
    - tags: \["life","reductionism"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/why-i-think-ai-take-off-is-relatively-slow.html> — Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/18/2025
    - tags: \["ai","longtermism"]

- <https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1968726067612389636>

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/18/2025
    - tags: \["politics"]

- <https://mishaglouberman.substack.com/p/stop-pretending-toronto-is-more-than> — Stop Pretending Toronto is More Than It Is.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["dunning kruger","living"]

- <https://baincapitalventures.com/insight/we-must-know-we-will-know/> — We must know, we will know

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["investment","announcement"]

  - periodic labs, cf [AI Scientist](https://periodic.com/)