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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1431 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
32 collections- Collection 3 cards
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
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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
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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?
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Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
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vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
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You Have the Right to Think
Epistemic Status: Public service announcement. We will then return to regularly scheduled programming. Written partly as a response to (Robin Hanson): Why be Contrarian, responding to the book Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky Warning: Applause lights incoming. I'm aware. Sorry. Seemed necessary. We the people, in order to accomplish something, do declare: You have the right to think. You…
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Against Modesty’s Bailey
Modesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree.
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The Dismantling
At its conclusion, Elizabeth Maher’s series paralleling American folklore simply disappears without a trace
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“AI” centralization
So it seems like NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face. NVIDIA is the company building most of the chips used in “AI” data centers and Hugging face runs probably the biggest repository for data sets and open weight “AI” models in the world (Hugging Face also offers inference but not at relevant rates and […]
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AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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From Feeds to Trails
To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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Open Science Needs Open Compute
Why independent science will depend on compute, not just funding, and why providing it is the best bet we can currently make.
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What is the Atmosphere?
An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.
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Better, Together
An announcement from Graze
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Lody Is Now Open Source: A Shared Workspace for Teams and Coding Agents
Lody helps teams understand the context behind software decisions. We are moving Lody toward local-first, with the goal of making that context durable, portable, and ultimately controlled by the team
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AI & the Environment
I write a lot about AI’s effects on the environment.
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I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers
It’s probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It’s about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities where they’re built, many of which are wrong.
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Roomy joins Modal incubator
Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.
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OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell
OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets
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On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
"Every force is screeching towards centralization."
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1,000 True Fans
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
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Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think
It takes rigor, judgment, and willingness to be told your work isn't good enough.
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AI Makes Better Software
Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.