Alexander Pope on the art of writing, in his An Essay on Criticism.

Aligning with the Brain’s Natural Design: 3 Pillars for Sustained Productivity medium.com/p/3-pillars-fo…

"Intelligence is the computation part of the ability to achieve goals." —John McCarthy, Founding Father of AI

"Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth." —Martin Heidegger (1954) "People have always

I published What Does David Hume Tell Us About Cognitive Bias? medium.com/illumination/w…

I've been a bit quiet on X recently. The past year has been a transformational experience. Grok-4 and Kimi K2 are awesome, but the world of robotics is a wondrous wild west. It feels like NLP in 2018 when GPT-1 was published, along with BERT and a thousand other flowers that

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

I just published Stream of Thought and Consciousness: What’s Missing? medium.com/illumination/s…

Can AI help understand how the brain learns to see the world? Our latest study, led by Joséphine Raugel from FAIR at AI at Meta and École normale supérieure | PSL, is now out! 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18226 🧵 A thread:

Something I try to remind myself: - The strong mind finds a way to stay steady ... even when plans fall apart. - The strong body finds a way to train ... even when the day doesn’t go your way. - The strong relationship finds a way to reconnect ... even when things get

Bezos is right. We didn’t invent transformers. We discovered an algorithm that grows neural nets so complex we can’t fully explain how they think. It feels less like coding and more like uncovering a second kind of brain, built from math instead of cells. Human intelligence was

Super interesting post from Andrej Karpathy. I wanted to dive deeper, so I created a NotebookLM notebook based on this tweet, and then did a Deep Research run in-app to gather related sources. Then generated one of our new slide decks to explore further. Instant knowledge base.

Jane Goodall on what it means to be human: "What it means to be human? I mean, I am prosaic. I know that we're part of a natural progression of life forms. That we're not in many ways so much a part of the animal kingdom. And then what's differentiated us is this intellect. You

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many

I just published What is Color? medium.com/illumination/w…

When you argue and change someone's mind, usually they don't realize in the middle of your debate. More often their view shifts after they have a chance to sleep on it. You're not gonna hear "Oh God you're right", but two months later you'll hear them repeating your points.

People stopped liking poetry because we got too good at teaching it. For thousands of years, poetry was central to education and people loved it because we were so bad at teaching it. Then came a group called the New Critics in the 1920s who figured out how to analyze poetry.

Yann is just plain incorrect here, he’s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence. Brains are the most exquis​ite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general. Obviously one can’t circumvent the no free lunch