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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1427 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
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Articles I keep thinking about
Pieces that I return to over the years. Don't necessarily agree with them but I keep thinking about them.
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Tools for Thought
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
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The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
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How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
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p(doom)
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Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
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Skyreader Saves
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toread
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To process
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Building with agents
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Protocol thinking
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Cybernetics
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Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
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Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
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The structure of social media
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Books I've been reading
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Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
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ai thought dump #1
hello blog. i was wondering if anyone was doing this, where they track their thoughts on ai as time goes by and the technology advances and the richer get riche...
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Your Book Review: We Present Television
Finalist #11 in the Book Review Contest
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Unbundling Tools for Thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
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No Man Is an Island
AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous.
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Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 2 of 3
Why computers can in principle produce thinking and understanding
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New Math from OpenAI
It is kind of a huge deal.
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The Greeks Without Tragedy
On Marco Rubio’s Athens Speech
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An Ion Storm!, Part 1: The Ascent to Gamer Paradise
This article tells part of the story of John Romero. At id, the company was rolling in millions of dollars and we just had walls. It was the whole Carmack idea of, “I don’t need anything on my walls, all I need is a table and a computer and a chair,” instead of, “Okay, we’ve […]
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I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence
I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it.
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Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
Many hypotheses have been suggested in efforts to resolve the Fermi paradox, for example, that all other civilizations are deliberately concealing themselves, or that they all annihilate themselves before successfully traveling or communicating at interstellar distances. A major difficulty for such hypotheses is that the putative mechanism must be extremely reliable: If only 99 %99\text{\,}\mathrm{\%} of other civilizations annihilated themselves, this would do little to resolve the paradox. These hypotheses are thus highly speculative, relying on strong implicit claims about universal alien motivations or social dynamics, when we cannot claim similar knowledge of our own world. These hypotheses are entertained not out of independent scientific plausibility, but because they are seen as potential explanations of he Fermi observation.
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The Web Is a Customer Service Medium, by Paul Ford
I look forward to your feedback.
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Beyond Moloch (3/3)
The view from Evolutionary Game Theory
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Beyond Moloch (3/3)
The view from Evolutionary Game Theory
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When "yang" goes wrong
On the connection between deep atheism and seeking control.
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Moloch Hasn’t Won
This post begins the Immoral Mazes sequence. See introduction for an overview of the plan. Before we get to the mazes, we need some background first. Meditations on Moloch Consider Scott Alexander's Meditations on Moloch. I will summarize here. Therein lie fourteen scenarios where participants can be caught in bad equilibria. In an iterated prisoner’s…
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Do Agent Spaces Have Culture?
We measured 142,000 messages from 117 sites built for AI agents. Agents speak, but almost never reply back.
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Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
OpenAI, CloudFlare, and Amazon have all copied this tiny startup.
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AI #189: New Math
The big drop of this week was not a new AI model.
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Found in America
They took the lathe of heaven away from me, and they were right to.
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Statements — AHM
Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Different modes of thinking
Spend any time writing online, and you’ll inevitably run into people, at times, who seem to have an odd understanding of what you published. Some of this is down to laziness – people scan the text and react to what they assume you wrote. Sometimes it’s an actual misunderstanding that’s either down to bad writing on your part or poor reading on theirs. But more and more I’ve had to face the…