Trying to understand LLMs by using the rules of human psychology is like trying to understand a game of Scrabble by using the rules of Pictionary. These things don’t act like people because they aren’t people.

We are in dire need of a better metaphor. Here’s my suggestion: instead of seeing AI as a sort of silicon homunculus, we should see it as a bag of words.

The final word in AI haterade. This is an economic bubble, where NVidia sells GPUs so a handful of other companies can use them to lose massive amounts of money. It makes up a significant fraction of the economy, and it won't last forever.

Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results. I say understudied and not unstudied, because it’s common knowledge that charging people for their time results in experts being paid less since they work faster, which is why experts charge more for their time.

Rebuttal to the pervasive notion that women should change their speech habits to be more like men's speech habits.

Sympathetically written article critically examining some of the assumptions central to the pro-life movement.

Entertaining essay on the virtues of a specific type of ink pen

Insightful, well constructed essay by Ron Paul describing problems with the fiat money system in use now and motivations for keeping that system. He forsees the predictable eventual failure of this system and shows a path to recovery.