Red Mars—LIBRARY

Kim Stanley Robinson’s imagination is provocative in the best ways.

Endings and Edges—JOURNAL

Reflections prompted by Michael Sacasas’ wrapping up a decade of blogging.

What if PageRank Was a Mistake?—JOURNAL

A provocation on our algorithmic present and a curational (curative?) alt-history.

One challenge to the new moral science—LIBRARY

Hunter and Nedelisky on the any kind of “moral science” which takes “social consensus” or majority preferences as the limit of actual ethical reasoning.

Implications of Plateauing LLMs—NOTES

They may not be what you think.

no efficiency… very little scalability—LIBRARY

Quoting Deb Chachra on “Baumol’s Cost Disease”.

Telling—NOTES

the way we use language—NOTES

Quoting Ben Makuh on how we talk about LLMs and the language of slavery,