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2026 52

  1. Lobbying
  2. Dyson CameraJet
  3. Why do you need freedom?
  4. Post Capitalism
  5. I love LLMs, I hate hype
  6. AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence
  7. Liminality
  8. The doom justifies the valuation
  9. You don’t understand, prices can’t go down
  10. Summoning the Demon
  11. AI will be massively deflationary
  12. Stairway to Heaven
  13. Our Great War is a Spiritual War
  14. The Eternal Sloptember
  15. There is only one bad AI scenario
  16. What will better AI mean?
  17. The Real Singularity is the Friends We Made Along the Way
  18. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
  19. AI will create jobs
  20. A Mutating AI Powered Virus
  21. Positivity
  22. Do you really want the US to "win" AI?
  23. AI has no moat
  24. What is freedom?
  25. America lost the Mandate of Heaven
  26. Five Simple Steps to Fix America
  27. zappa: an AI powered mitmproxy
  28. The 'Everyone's a Billionaire' act
  29. OpenAI is nothing without its people
  30. Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide
  31. The day you get cut out of the economy
  32. The Reckoning
  33. Clip Show
  34. Closed Source AI = Neofeudalism
  35. Two Worlds
  36. Changing the World
  37. Democracy is a Liability
  38. Polynomial Time Factoring Algorithm
  39. Changing my mind on UBI
  40. Every minute you aren't running 69 agents, you are falling behind
  41. The Insane Stupidity of UBI
  42. The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class
  43. AI is the Best Thing to Happen to Art
  44. Cost of Housing
  45. tiny corp's product -- a training box
  46. I Told You So
  47. The Importance of Diversity
  48. Will I ever own a zettaflop?
  49. The Coming War on Car Ownership
  50. how do I stop participating?
  51. you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
  52. Anthropic is making a huge mistake

2025 34

  1. Five years of tinygrad
  2. The opinion that pisses everyone off
  3. Computer Use Models
  4. Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
  5. Replacing my MacBook
  6. Gambling is Bad
  7. the solution is simple but you aren't demoralized enough yet
  8. anticloud hopecore
  9. Pathetic Losers
  10. We have always been at war with Eastasia
  11. Get Out of Technology
  12. AI Coding
  13. chapter five: sleuthing
  14. chapter six: dashcam
  15. chapter seven: nudge
  16. chapter two: party
  17. chapter three: father
  18. chapter four: bagel
  19. chapter one: john
  20. you are a good person
  21. you will blame the wrong people
  22. you can never go back
  23. The World After Wireheading
  24. Can tinygrad win?
  25. Are we the baddies?
  26. A Way Forward
  27. Critical Trade Theory
  28. The Tragic Case of Intel AI
  29. Resentment
  30. AMD YOLO
  31. The Demoralization is just Beginning
  32. Money is the Map
  33. Nobody Profits
  34. Death of the Visceral

2024 16

  1. The Elon Swing Voter
  2. The Soul
  3. nuke/acc
  4. A Place for Me
  5. A One Way Bridge
  6. The Collective Marshmallow Test
  7. ...and now we see what is possible
  8. Influence Agents
  9. High Trust Society
  10. America's Future
  11. Dangerous Misinformation
  12. Online Dating
  13. Where the Bitter Lesson ends
  14. The World's Computer
  15. Cruise
  16. Tech Heroin

2023 13

  1. Imitation Learning
  2. Disrupt the Government
  3. Three Class Society
  4. p(doom)
  5. There is no hard takeoff
  6. A Really Big Computer
  7. choose your own adventure
  8. A disgusting playbook
  9. A dive into the AMD driver workflow
  10. the tiny corp raised $5.1M
  11. A Person of Compute
  12. Wireheading City
  13. Wokeism

2022 11

  1. Eacc
  2. Avatar 2 was Bad
  3. The Hero's Journey
  4. A Hope
  5. Happy Birthday to Me
  6. On Device Learning
  7. Vampire Attack Twitter
  8. Beauty after COVID
  9. Brain FLOPS
  10. The Problem of the State
  11. Consumer Class Divide

2021 19

  1. The Fourth Estate
  2. A Correction on my AI chip thoughts
  3. On The University of Austin
  4. An Architecture for Life
  5. To Fight against Entropy
  6. Class Warfare
  7. The New Regime
  8. Coliving Spaces
  9. Consumption
  10. Individual Sovereignty
  11. Baskets
  12. Pieces of Shit
  13. A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies
  14. A Circulation of the Elites
  15. Idiots are going to kill me
  16. A Machine Ecology
  17. Sell Outs
  18. The AI Control Problem
  19. Technology without Industry

2020 2

  1. A Silicon Person
  2. On Money Creation