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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
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.
- Collection 7 cards
How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
- Collection 20 cards
p(doom)
- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 1146 cards
Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
- Collection 9 cards
Books I've been reading
- Collection 3 cards
Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
- Collection 10 cards
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
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 20 cards
atproto stuff
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Thinking together
While analyzing a global history databank spanning 10,000 years, Shin, et al found a disconcerting pattern. Civilizations scale until they are overwhelmed by the information environment they create. This is The Information Scaling Threshold.
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Tools for thought in your OODA loop
The unreasonable effectiveness of getting oriented
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#787: The X of it all
Plus: mommaxxing, oligarchs and Choosin’ Texas
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Divergence with a Vengeance
The 19th century was more important than I previously thought
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Steven Pinker Replies to Scott Alexander on AI
Steven Pinker responds to Scott Alexander's debate challenge: AI dangers are real, but doomer scenarios are flawed and dread is no way to win real safeguards.
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Truth in Inconvenience
What do ZIRP, the AI panic, and the meaning crisis have in common?
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Overtake on the Turn, Overwhelm on the Straight
Sometimes, doing the right thing is just way too hard. So you have use the best approximate substitute available. When you can't fly like a bird, you can…
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LLMs for theory-building
Can AI do abductive reasoning?
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Look at all the things he's not doing
David's keynote was sure where Rails is heading and quiet on how we get there. The rest of Rails World had better answers.
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The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon
Is Google back?
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
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Academia: Thoughtfulness With--and Without--Writing
Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go
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Our AI Midwife
A guest post by Drew Housman
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The AI Preference Cascade Reaches Farther
Those who know keep warning us about AI risks.
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What AI debates have to do with alchemy
A review of Adam Becker’s book
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Old wool, new fleece
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” Kafka "There are other people who develop something new and then
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The death of web development education
Rescuing a field from disappearing
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Even If It's Real, It's Fake
“Tell me where you love to shop. What are some of your favorite brands. Tell me about your personal style in housewares and fashion. Do you have any babies?”
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OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
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Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2
How the human mind is different from our conception of it
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Money Stuff: AI Agents Will Pay Attention
Money Stuff Man City, cotton, Waldron. View in browser Attention is all you need My little financials dispersion trade [1] <> is: * Some retail-facing financial businesses make their money from customers who paytoo little attention. * Some retail-facing financial businesses make their money from customers who paytoo much attention. * Agentic artificial intelligence will tend to help customers pay…
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Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasionally tosses itself in my path), so in this post I’m mostly trying to referee arguments made by others. If … <a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>