I was having a disagreement with an old friend about this recently. Smart guy, doing a PhD in AI (hi!). This made me realise that I should take a public position on this, as there are many other people I respect that seem to embody this position at various degrees.
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Unprincipled predictions for 2026 based on vibes. I'm no superforecaster. Lots of it ended up being about AI because that's the big meta right now. AI and technology * more technology is going to be draped in "organic, homegrown farm-to-cup" aesthetics * this is in reaction
This essay aims to introduce social stigma around certain types of AI use, or at the very least, reduce the amount of slop I receive. What is slop? I like the deepfates definition: Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way that “spam” became the
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I've been putting things out on the internet for a while. old tech blogs circa 2010-2012 I was a child. I wrote articles about technology news (and reviewed whatever old used phone I had, posted them on youtube and x-posted to these blogs). I used "website builder&
I was in MoMA, watching Barnett Newman's intensely red canvascape (Vir Heroicus Sublimis) stare back at me. Most paintings have a subject. And a bunch of objects. This one had a large bright redness, punctured by vertical lines. My mind, in search of a subject that's
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Comments to articles around the web, on my turf. Bengawalk There's a lot of whining about Bengaluru's broken and crumbling infrastructure. Pravar, the creator of Bengawalk takes a refreshing and productive approach and demonstrates that clear articulation can improve things on the margin. His video review
A totem (from Ojibwe: ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system. A conceptual thing humans have is symbolism that provides
How to write more? The bottleneck is psychological. There's a natural censor in your brain that blurts out objections and reprimands as you start to write. To remedy this, practice enough mindfulness so that you can catch the censor every time it blurts something. Eventually your head becomes
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What am I getting from the internet? The answer to this used to be self-evident back when I accessed it from a dial-up connection in 2009. There was the real world context that I inhabited, and the internet was a portal where I would access information from distant worlds. Today,
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance was on my reading wishlist for a while. From the title, I assumed the book would be something like a tasteful self-help book, a quirky blend of kōanic mysticism applied to motorcycle maintenance, with a nudge and a wink for the reader, who
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to amuse myself and steer large language models
I turn 25 today. On this occasion, I will talk about 25 things that have served me well.