People Got Unhappier When Life Got Easy
Maybe the problem is that we stopped expecting anything of ourselves
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Why I believe in SOTA models over custom ones
The future is general models getting cheaper, not specialized models getting narrower
The Culture Series: A Complete Guide to Glanding
Every drug gland secretion from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels
The Great Transition
A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition
Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too
It's not about what a company does, but how it affects your token budget
Bitter Lesson Engineering
We need to avoid the Bitter Lesson mistake when building AI systems
A Simple Framework for Being Anti-Fragile
Three things you need to thrive in a world that keeps changing
Nobody is Talking About Generalized Hill-Climbing (at Runtime)
Pursuing the unbelievably exciting goal of making everything verifiable
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