The art of noticing what matters. Finding and sharing the weird and wonderful patterns of the world
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Six Story Prompts I Want to Read
Below are six story prompts that you might enjoy. Especially intended for my writer friends, but hopefully other people might find it fun to try writing based on one of these prompts too!
The first three prompts are about AI in one capacit...
Frame Error
Today I want to explain what I call “frame errors”: a third kind of mistake, distinct from logical fallacies and empirical errors. You can get every fact right and every inference valid, and still be wrong, because your framework for reason...
Claude, Author of the Humanitas
In the wee hours of Memorial Day, my friends and I stayed up past 4:30 AM California time to listen to the announcement of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intellig...
Kimi, Author of the Menard
My newest hobby is fine-tuning a Chinese open-source LLM to generate Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (originally by Borges). The ambition isn’t to write a so-called “Borgesian” story “like” Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote but to f...
Tomás Bjartur: The Last Prodigy
In 2026, every budding prodigy in writing is in some sense a tragedy.
Anybody with experience prompting the large language models to write fiction knows that the models of today (April 2026) are considerably below peak human level. But any...
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The art of noticing what matters. I have eclectic interests, from anthropics to zoology. My goal is to find and share the weird and wonderful patterns of the world. Currently @ Forethought Past jobs: grantmaker, researcher, software engineer
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