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On Rigor and LLMs

Of Order and Chaos

Software is deterministic. If you write a program, barring some freakish one-in-a-billion hardware glitch, your hardware will run it in exactly the same way every time. This consistency is what allows the massive Tow...

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Engineering Is The New Design

For decades we software engineers were the elect, the sorcerers, the speakers of mysteries. MBAs might plot the course of our companies; Product and Design defined what customers might do and how they interacted; but only we understood the...

2 months ago
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How to OpenClaw your Raspberry Pi

The tech world has gone gaga for OpenClaw, a project that lets you run an always-on AI agent; give it “skills” such as deploying code, searching the web, or summarizing your emails; and communicate with it via Slack or Telegram. Is this fun...

3 months ago
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Simulation, psychosis, and trajectory

“You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baki...

4 months ago
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Moneyballocracy

(Adapted from a talk I gave at Yale this month as part of the annual International Workshop on Reimagining Democracy; thanks to Bruce Schneier & co. for the invite.)

A brief history of prophecy

One fine day in 1907, 787 attendees of a...

5 months ago
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    Novelist (latest: EXADELIC, Tor Books), engineer, occasional journalist. Currently: Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously: AI startup founder, director GitHub Archive Program, CTO HappyFunCorp, engineer Metaculus/FutureSearch. https://rezendi.com/

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