Your tweet got me reading up on his controversies, and I thought it was striking that he denies various claims about what he has said, but grants calling the Planning Commission Chair a “brood mare.”

I wish my (boring) human friends started more conversations this way, talking about the ghosts of their past. techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/f...

Claude is telling you that your poetry is better than it really is. (I realize sycophancy is a general problem, but harsh, private judgments of my poetic attempts feel especially deflating.)

In Paris today, we went to see the exhibit, “Beauvoir, Sartre, Giacometti: Vertiginousness of the Absolute.” @aritubert.bsky.social

My brand new sophisticated nihilistic view is that the fact that prominent tech people are getting taken in doesn’t augur well for a tech-led future.

GPT-4o has hit a wall at recalling Bob Dylan song lyrics or even just having a feel for how they might go. AGI is decades away.

The human prefrontal cortex contains enough neural hardware to run as many as 5,000 flies. And yet, most people don’t simulate even as many as 7 flies simultaneously. Why? That is my puzzle.

o1Pro may have just unified physics. Great. But what everyone really wants to know: is it woke??

Peter Singer joins the echo chamber.

A presidential campaign promise of “an orangutan in every household” is probably even less economically feasible than you assume.