Second Best
Samuel HammondImperfect takes with uncertain payoff
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Empiricists vs. Extrapolators
Shortly after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, I wrote an essay called Before the Flood: Ruminations on the future of AI. It seemed obvious to me that ChatGPT was an early indicator of a fast-approaching tsunami, although at the time not ever...
Notes from the UAE
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting the United Arab Emirates as part of a fact-finding mission organized by the Middle East Institute and sponsored by the UAE embassy in D.C.. The purpose of the trip was to learn about the UAE’s AI s...
Do LLMs really reason?
Large language models have impressive linguistic abilities, but do they understand what they say or merely parrot? “Reasoning models” like OpenAI’s o3 are great at multi-step problem solving, but do they really reason or is it just elaborat...
Hegel and the AI Mind
Link to part two.
Hegel's philosophy is about consciousness coming to understand itself and context, and therefore the conditions for its freedom. This arguably makes Hegel among the first human neural networks to achieve situational aware...
Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Value
Ever since Liberation Day, Oren Cass has been in the unenviable position of having to defend Trump’s tariffs in the abstract while disagreeing with their implementation in almost every detail:
- Cass favors the universal 10% tariff but t...
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