Impermanente — Selected Essays in English

A couple of months ago I wrote that a chatbot was a mirror without a center, and that when you look for whoever is watching behind the eyes, you don't find them, because the mirror doesn't give you back an image but your own self.

Leor Zmigrod, who has written a book called The Ideological Brain, has spent years measuring something that on the face of it has nothing to do with politics: cognitive rigidity.

Anyone who has read Sapkowski or played enough Dungeons & Dragons knows the joke, and knows the fear underneath the joke.

Today Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, published a piece on his blog titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable," where he lays out how he pictures his company in an economy driven by AI.

A few months ago I wrote that classifying the gods by their domains is a schoolboy's mistake: Ares for war, Poseidon for the seas, and that's that.

You ask a model to help you write a regular expression for filtering phishing in your company's security pipeline.

There is a word used in Buddhism, anatta, that is almost always translated badly.

The sentence appears early in Dune: "thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

A few days ago I read a piece in Existential Espresso about the need to have a personal myth in the age of AI.

A few days ago a friend contacted me with the classic "I have to tell you something important."

For decades we worked under an implicit model we could call the SAP model: there is a "correct" way to do things, someone has encoded it into a tool, and your job is to adapt your processes to that mould.

Because of work I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, from a very young age.

Who decides whether I will be able to open my current documents in ten years?

There is something I find hard to admit, although by now I do not have too many reservations about saying it: I remember almost nothing of my childhood.

In systems engineering there is a concept called POSIWID, an acronym for "the purpose of a system is what it does."