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2025 8

  1. Why I Am Agnostic About AGI & ASI
  2. Be Not Afraid: Gods, Monsters, and Generative AI
  3. The Latent State Window and the Limits of Reasoning in LLMs
  4. Did Claude Code Lose Its Mind, Or Did I Lose Mine?
  5. The Reasoning Revolution In AI: How We Got Here & Why It Matters
  6. In Defense of Cluely.com
  7. Doing Real Work With LLMs: How to Manage Context
  8. How to Do Real Work With LLMs, Part 1

2023 30

  1. To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production
  2. How To Regulate AI, If You Must
  3. Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News
  4. Catechizing the Bots, Part 2: Reinforcement Learning and Fine-Tuning With RLHF
  5. Catechizing the Bots, Part 1: Foundation Models and Fine-Tuning
  6. GPT-4 Doesn't Have "Gender Bias." It's Just Bad At Language (Still)
  7. AI Safety: Is AI The Genie Or The Lamp?
  8. AI Agent Basics: Let’s Think Step By Step
  9. What Is It Like To Be ChatGPT?
  10. Elsewhere: Lovecraft As AGI Prophet, Community Updates
  11. What Is It Like To Be ChatGPT?
  12. Elsewhere: Twitter Bot Wars & GPT-4's True Power
  13. AI Safety: A Technical & Ethnographic Overview
  14. Why I'm A Better Editor Than GPT-4 (& Probably GPT-5)
  15. The CHAT Stack, GPT-4, And The Near-Term Future Of Software
  16. Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI
  17. Yes, Generative AI Will Innovate In Writing, Art, Music, & STEM
  18. ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works
  19. Elsewhere: Search vs. ChatGPT, ELIZA, AI Futures
  20. I Say This Unironically: Our Society Is Not Prepared For This Much Awesome
  21. Lovecraft's Basilisk: On The Dangers Of Teaching AI To Lie
  22. What If The Future Of AGI Rhymes With The History Of Flight?
  23. Stable Attribution: A New Tool Could Ruin Generative AI, Or It Could Save It
  24. The Story So Far: Where Have All The AI Cowboys Gone?
  25. The Story So Far: AI Makes For Strange Bedfellows
  26. AGI Is Silicon Valley’s First Native Cryptid
  27. The Story So Far: Generative AI Arrived Too Early
  28. Anti-Stable Diffusion Lawsuit Deep Dive: It’s A Neutron Bomb
  29. Machine Learning And Deflationary Contagions
  30. Elsewhere: Future of Programming, Revenge Porn

2022 19

  1. Stable Diffusion 2.0 & 2.1: An Overview
  2. AI Wars, Part 2: Meta’s Galactica AI & The End Of Science
  3. The Hall Monitors Are Winning the AI Wars, Part 1: ChatGPT
  4. What Does It Mean to “Create” Something With Generative AI?
  5. How Big Content Will Win The Generative AI Wars
  6. The Billion User Social Graph
  7. Spider-Verse 2025: Streaming 24/7. No Reruns. Forever
  8. Creative AI Is Here, Whether You Believe In It Or Not
  9. The Meeting At The Tower
  10. AI Content Generation, Part 4: What’s next
  11. Getting Started With Stable Diffusion: A Guide For Creators
  12. Good news: AI is now in its midwit programmer phase
  13. AI Content Generation, Part 2: Tasks And Models
  14. AI Content Generation, Part 1: Machine Learning Basics
  15. Politics broke the internet, and it can still break the blockchain
  16. Digital sovereignty is harder than it should be
  17. The can opener problem
  18. Ethereum's very own death pit
  19. Crypto reaps the whirlwind

2021 36

  1. Web3: the rise of the aligned web
  2. The blockchain in historical perspective
  3. The Feed & The Tokenization of Reality
  4. Pseudonymity and the billion-user table
  5. How the blockchain will break up Big Tech
  6. Cryptocurrency and the Great Unbundling
  7. Coupling, drift, and the AI nobody noticed
  8. Segmentation faults: how machine learning trains us to appear insane to one another
  9. Phrenology, insurance claims, and digital gaydar
  10. Coinbase and the death of media’s stewardship model
  11. Is machine learning in the enterprise mostly "snake oil"?
  12. The dealer economy
  13. When software writes the software that eats the world
  14. Twilight of the AI nerds
  15. The horseshoe theory behind the MIT virus skeptic study
  16. A US vs. China conflict and the Internet of War Things
  17. Welcome to the Everything Game
  18. Significant Bits: a semiconductor industrial crash? AI news from China and the US. Much more on the Basecamp drama
  19. Tech's dilemma: should you be allowed to say you want a revolution?
  20. AI has a walled garden problem
  21. No, the FTC is not about to wade into the AI bias wars
  22. Issues in AI: moral responsibility, skepticism, and more regulation
  23. EU set to kill AI startups; how chip shortages are like gun shortages; Twitter's unsolvable AI ethics paradox
  24. Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
  25. Computer vision, AI in war, and the definition of "bad"
  26. Clubhouse is probably our best hope for training an AI to communicate like a human
  27. Why I've grown less skeptical about artificial general intelligence
  28. Understanding the role of "racist algorithms" in AI ethics discourse
  29. Some followups on the politics of machine translation
  30. The politics of machine translation
  31. On the problem of regulating artificial intelligence
  32. New Google tool is the whole AI debate in widget form
  33. An open letter, and Facebook's side of the story
  34. Facebook's bias games, & the problem of size
  35. Should the law require Alexa to speak like a social justice activist?
  36. Google's Colosseum

2020 1

  1. Welcome to Doxa!