Am I the baddie?
I am a software engineer. I work for a company that makes software for road…
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View AllAnthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never…
The bar is lower than you think
TL;DR: The efficient market hypothesis is a lie, there are no adults, you don't have…
Did Anyone Predict the Industrial Revolution?
The Fighting Temeraire. 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. (Source: Wikimedia)Editor’s note: Post 2/30 for…
Does GPT-2 Have a Fear Direction?
Anthropic dropped a paper this morning showing that Claude Sonnet 4.5 has steerable emotion representations.…
Two Theories for Cryopreservation
Why cryonics, and the two main methods, with practical discussion and philosophical musings on both.Epistemic…
I thought eight metrics could capture my mental state. I was wrong.
Morning and night, I pronounce "Hey Exo"[1], and my phone beeps once. I begin describing…
Why do I believe preserving structure is enough?
There's a lot even our best neuroscientists don't know about the human brain. How can…
A Tale of Two Rigours
A familiarity with the pre-rigor/post-rigor ontology might be helpful for reading this post.University math is…
God Mode is Boring: Musings on Interestingness
(Crossposted from my Substack)There is a preference that I think most people have, but which…