Small Bets, Costly Signals
L. "Magpie" PinetteI worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
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Modern AI research is a cargo cult
John Frum cross in Vanuatu. CC-by 3.0 Tim Ross.
I have had a number of arguments recently with people working in the tech space about whether an Artificial General intelligence or AGI is possible based on the current approach used by the b...
Traegen Trelf parts the Gulf – a parable
This is another parable, although not specifically based on any existing story, although I suppose it represents an attempt to update the ‘wise fool’ archetype into the midwit crackpot—though I suppose that nicely describes no few people in...
I was wrong about Confucius, and probably Plato too
Where I am now feels like a rocky path towards the complete collapse of the last vestiges of my faith in philosophical liberalism. At this point, I am in the bargaining stage of grief, and my last best hope is that John Dewey is a dramatica...
Are humans already as smart as we can get?
Alternative thumbnail from my video on “instant science,” showing Polanyi and Kuhn’s books.
An observant reader might notice that my updates on this blog essentially fell off a cliff in April. While there were a number of factors in that,...
Three reasons I've gone three days without releasing a YouTube video
The red square shows what two days of “underperfoming” videos can do to a channel. Compared to the last three days of releasing no videos at all.
The readers of this blog are overwhelmingly viewers of my YouTube channel, and presumably kin...
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