It's worth remembering that DOGE is a failure at Every. Single. Possible. Level. At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and

Any discussion of Orality pairs well with Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" archive.org/details/ted-ch…

There is exactly one piece of national park land I would be happy with the US government giving up. They should tile the presidio with skyscrapers.

Y'know I bet this is the core issue now. The long-dead link economy, especially when it got a boost from early Google PageRank, incentivized the bottom-up, scene-led creation of a rising tide via cross-linking. Now tho, solo creators compete for a finite pool of rev share.

Strained analysis to label someone on one side of a political dichotomy or the other is a sign of a stunted intellectual environment. A fish might be more similar to a dog than a banana but that doesn't mean it barks.

SF social life seems to mainly revolve around house parties with themes such as “fruit” and “mechanistic interpretability”

When people talk about "50% of code written by AI" there is a tremendous difference between high frequency and low frequency agent collaboration.

"This llm could have been a regex" is the new "this meeting could have been an email"

Just thinking that the boy who cried wolf story has a different lesson from the townsfolk's perspective.

"My colleague just told me that [...]. What do you think about this?" Is a useful layer of indirection to reduce models' tendency to "yes and" whatever you tell them.

AI is going to bifurcate society into kids who were raised on the young lady's illustrated primer and those who got lobotomized by cocomelon gain of function research.

Working backwards, building AGI requires massive compute. Sign $300B Oracle deal. Now need to figure out revenue growth that can sustain compute spend otherwise uh-oh. Ambitious PMs given number-go-up mandate. This is the real alignment problem.

I wonder what the market segmentation is for technical enough to have a need for production agentic workflows but not technical enough to write code.

Confidence interval of [0, +inf) is unlikely to be wrong

Great memetic case study

Lately feeling like if I'm going to let mypy boss me around into making everything type safe I should just learn rust instead?

Working through Linear Algebra Done Right was a huge perspective shift for me: linear algebra as capital-A Algebra, not just hyper-arithmetic.

My toddler has a delightfully original concept of what is, or is not, a dinosaur.