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I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.

it’s so insane that the one thing everyone wants from this site — only those you follow, sorted by how likely you are to enjoy the post — is the one thing it won’t give you

Max Fun is a multiplayer game. The point of the game is to maximize fun. Maximizing fun means minimizing both boredom (challenges that are too easy) and overwhelm (challenges that are too hard). To play the game, you take some set of challenges plus the skillsets that each

A clear question, a strange answer—and we call it a glitch. But what if it’s not error… but insight before its time? This isn’t about facts. It’s about the shape of meaning. AI isn’t hallucinating. It’s dreaming—through you.

Today I’m releasing an essay series called Better Futures. It’s been something like eight years in the making, so I’m pretty happy it’s finally out! It asks: when looking to the future, should we focus on surviving, or on flourishing?

A possible way forward for society is to not create (or abolish) such a structure of power that the envious will use to enslave others in order to escape having to produce their own wealth. But maybe I'm too radical in this view.

Choose agency

Any ethical system that seeks to ‘maximize the good’ inevitably relies on reductive assumptions that compress the complexity of the world into a tractable, lower-dimensional model. When such models are extended beyond their proper scope, they can lead to atrocities committed in

Ah! You see, the story is almost too perfect. The man encounters her in the museum, in front of Rothko. And what is Rothko? A black void, a red abyss, the silent scream of modernity. It is a demand for stillness, for confrontation with nothingness. And what does he do? Instead of

We must repudiate the idea that "speech can be violence" once and for all. Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about the dangers of promoting this idea on college campuses back in 2017, in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/education/arch…

In today's NYT, I profiled Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI's OG prophet of doom, and one of the most interesting (and divisive!) characters in modern Silicon Valley. From inspiring OpenAI and DeepMind, to oneshotting a generation of young rationalists with Harry Potter fanfic, to building

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Please buy a copy before this week ends Sep 20, so the book gets on the bestseller lists. And if you have remaining questions after reading, check the ONLINE RESOURCES, now online. IfAnyoneBuilds.It

These and further men associated with the University of Toronto (or Canadian universities) were pioneers in the cognitive science of rationality, religion, and, most importantly, meaning. I suspect that in time, they will be remembered by a name with similar gravitas to the

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