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Microsoft Research (conflict of interest? what’s that?) has issued a 154-page report entitled Sparks of Artificial Intelligence: Early Experiments With…

Mar 24

Lemon, it’s Tuesday Somehow, this was last week: (Not included: Ongoing banking crisis threatening global financial system.) Oh, also I suppose there…

Mar 21

Many have already written about the events of the past week’s crisis. If you want the basics of what happened, you have many options. Your best bet, if…

Mar 16

Welcome to week three of the AI era. Another long week, another set of lots of things, another giant post. I intend to take a nice four-day vacation in…

Mar 9

It has been a subject of much recent internet discourse that the kids are not okay. By all reports, the kids very much seem to be not all right. Suicide…

Mar 8

Before I begin, I have an announcement to make: My game, the Emergents Trading Card Game, has launched! You can download the game here for free for…

Mar 6

Table of Contents I had reports last week that the table of content links were failing for some users, I believe those on Safari. Right now I don’t know…

Mar 2

Some people (although very far from all people) are worried that AI will wipe out all value in the universe. Some people, including some of those same…

Mar 1

February 2023

Previously: On Car Seats as Contraception [Editor’s Note: This post assumes the perspective that more people having more children is good, actually. I…

Feb 27

No news is (often) good news. At old Magic: The Gathering tournaments, judge Tony Parodi would often tell us, ‘if your opponent did not show up, that is…

Feb 23

Previous AI-related recent posts: Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day, Next Level Seinfeld, Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs, Movie Review: Megan, On…

Feb 21

Scott Alexander wrote yet more words defending his decision to write two posts totaling 25,000 words about Ivermectin. Then he wrote a second post…

Feb 20

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