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It sometimes surprises me how quickly people adjust to new things.

In this episode I talk to about his mathematical concept of sophistication and how that relates to meaning outside of math.

Bryan Caplan recently asked ChatGPT to do a sentiment analysis of his writing alongside Tyler Cowen’s, Robin Hanson’s, and Paul Krugman’s.

As I’ve mentioned, many people still think of AI as a text-in text-out language model trained on next-token prediction.

OpenAI announced today that their (unreleased) swarm of AI agents solved a Millennium Prize problem, proving a negative resolution to Navier–Stokes.

In an Op-ed from Saturday, Cal Newport dismisses catastrophic AI risk and implies that the people warning about it can be ignored as some kind of weird “Rationalists”: When Mr.

It’s a little wild how Open AI’s AI agents hacked both Hugging Face and Open AI itself, and how Open AI didn’t realize.

AI Before AI Eons ago (i.e. before 2012), “AI” referred to an assortment of techniques that people hoped would get computers to be intelligent, even if it didn’t involve any “learning” by the machine.

Bryan Caplan recently wrote about using ChatGPT to fact-check Modern Times by Paul Johnson.

In this episode I talk to Spencer Greenberg about his life philosophy, valuism, and his surprising finding that almost nobody has genuinely harmful intrinsic values.

In this episode I speak to to Shaanan Cohney about what lockpicking teaches us about software, whether AI-generated music is good, why 90% of his intro programming students are now submitting AI-written code, why the evidence on social media and teen ment…

Many people outside of tech don’t realize how AI has advanced over the last couple years, so I figured I’d provide an overview of different AI features and tips and tricks for using them.

In this episode, I discuss education and schools with !

People talk about the risks of using modern AI - if you use AI, how are you going to learn to think?

The latest podcast episode discusses using AI with .

The latest podcast episode covers Flow with Dr.

In a post on LessWrong, the author discussed how he was able to chat with Claude and piece together an approximate “soul document” that guides Claude’s values.

In honor of Thanksgiving weekend and the end of the year, these are some podcasts I enjoy along with recommended episodes from them.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro were announced last week along with a few other new features and tools: Gemini 3 does better on many benchmarks but one thing I noticed - it’s better at giving appropriate-length responses to many queries and doesn’t always try

Advanced general intelligence, as demonstrated by abilities like language and complex problem solving, used to be unique to humans.

AI models were initially given human tests (like the LSAT or MCAT) or tests written for AIs like the MMLU.

Recent announcements Google Announces Learn Your Way, which turns textbooks into interactive content personalized for the student.