
Fakepixels is a newsletter that explores alternative perspectives of understanding frontier technology, markets, and our own minds.
| Platform | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 85 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Last Sunday, a researcher and fellow Substack writer Citrini posted a question on X. It began in the future tense: June 2028. The S&P had plunged 38% from its peak. Unemployment clocked in at 10.2%. AI had not only met expectations, it had...
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
I was sitting in a café in SF, watching a young woman try to teach her daug...
Happy New Year, explorers.
Each year, I pose a set of questions rather than predictions. The goal is not to forecast the future, but to notice what’s already changing beneath our feet.
This year’s questions circle a single transformation...
"For here there is no place / that does not see you. You must change your life."
— Rilke’s Archaic Torso of Apollo
Building a large language model happens in three main stages.
Pre-training processes trillions of tokens scrape...
Thank you for all the positive feedback from those who enjoyed Part I.
For those that are new here, I found “The Tao” (大道)on my last trip to China, a compilation of conversations and online exchanges with Yongping Duan, one of the greatest...
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