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Somewhere in the bowels of X, Sam Altman suggested asking an AI to provide the hardest question it could reasonably answer. Perplexity provides 1/ difficult questions it can answer reasonably well (given the availability of public information), and 2/ questions that are hard to answer. These are the questions it can reasonably answer based on…
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Can AI be used to analyze Powerball data? With the right dataset, it sure can.
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A more straightforward tactic: talk to your children often about the kind of working lives I’m outlining here, and the age of AI more broadly. Make them understand that the kind of single-track careers they see on TV or hear about in school — the kind that many of us have had — aren’t really…
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I wanted to see if AI could provide insight into local government. AI does analysis really well, those datasets are available, and it’s not something a normal person can do, unless they have hours to spare. Can AI simplify government bureaucracies so we can better understand our government. The answer? Yes, it can.
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Generative deep learning improves reconstruction of global historical climate records. It uses, as you might guess from the title, generative deep learning to reconstruct global historical climate records. It does temperature and precipitation — Read on diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/from-noise-all-this/ It will be interesting to check in on this project in a few months to see what they’ve…
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I’ve been paying €20/month for an AI chatbot. Not the free tier — the premium one. The one that remembers things. The one that thinks with you. I used it for everything. Career decisions. Travel planning. Creative projects. Emotional processing. I treated it like an oracle, a thinking partner that never judges, never forgets, never…
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And I don’t just mean that nobody uses it anymore. Like, I knew everyone under 50 had moved on, but I didn’t realize the extent of the slop conveyor belt that’s replaced us. — Read on pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
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We have a competitive Illinois primary coming up in March, so I wanted to see if generative AI could help quickly get to a rough estimate of the best candidates to vote for. It certainly can – especially when you use it to filter out the most insane candidates with a goal of keeping them…
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AI could be used as a lever to rebuild institutions, markets, and daily life in ways that are more productive, fair, and humane than today, but only if we design for that explicitly rather than just “optimize engagement” or “cut headcount.”
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After WWII, Western Europe had the chance to rebuild its own world, and did a great job. We moderns are not used to having to rebuild our world. It is now the case that strong AI is here/coming, and we will have to rebuild our own world. Many of us are terrified at this prospect,…
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“Imagine you are a historian of Rome. Please write twenty highly charged headlines about the time ranging from when Caesar crossed the Rubicon and returned to Rome until the time when Augustus took power. The headlines should be written in the style of CNN, written the way that CNN would cover politics”
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I want to automatically tag my Magic the Gathering cards, because tags really help with making fast commander decks. But it takes time, and I’ve probably tagged <3% of my cards. So I set out to build a solution in Replit.
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I was extremely happy with the Dolmenwood character generator I built with Replit. I then further updated the multi-prime classes (Magician, Friar, Knight) to adjust the mix, but I over indexed on it. So I decided to fix it.
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In a thousand years from now, all the 11-dimensional charts at that time will show that “the singularity is near.” Immortal beings and global consciousness and everything else we hope for in the future may be real and present but still, a linear-log curve in 3006 will show that a singularity approaches. The singularity is…
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I was frustrated with the existing Dolmenwood character generator, because it doesn’t allow me to iterate levels, and doesn’t show the levels on the character creation screen. I did like the backgrounds though. So, armed with a sense of purpose – a quest, if you may – I set out to see if I could…
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Imagine that we put QR codes on every tombstone. Walking through a graveyard, you scan the QR code to get an AI trained on that person’s data to tell you about their life, provide advice, share historical perspectives. This information could also be added to a HomePod or Alexa. The knowledge of our ancestors would…
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Our claim is that in a world of full automation, inequality will skyrocket (in favor of capital holders)…. The relative wealth differences in a thousand years—or a million—will be downstream of who owns the first dyson swarms and space ships. And space colonization isn’t bottlenecked by people’s preference for human nannies and waiters. — Read…
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You could put higher consumption taxes on items the wealthy purchase to a disproportionate degree. Paintings and yachts, and so on. Tom Holden argues: “In a world in which capital is essentially the only input to production, taxing capital reduces the growth rate of the economy. Whereas at present capital taxes have only level effects.…
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After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law. — Read on techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/state-attorneys-general-warn-microsoft-openai-google-and-other-ai-giants-to-fix-delusional-outputs/
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